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Working in Groups

Making change is a collective endeavour that can bring many challenges! One of the biggest stumbling blocks can be the group itself: passionate individuals trying to work together. These resources will help you set a group up well, tune it up if it already exists, make decisions together, navigate conflict, and develop skills to be an effective participant and facilitator.

A graph of a circle with arrows and words. Title reads They way out: Moving from Vicious cycles to virtuous cycles. IN the middle of a red circle reads Toxic Polarization. Green arrows point to purple boxes with words that read: Stop to reset, Spot positive deviance, Complicate to simplify, Move to sychronize, Adapt to sustain progress.

Overcome Toxic Polarisation: A Political Courage Challenge

This tool developed by Starts With Us aims to fight toxic division and extremism and build tolerance and compassionate relationships.

Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit

Security & safety practices, Verbal De-escalation, Office and Organizational Safety, and Security for events and actions by Vision Change Win.

Bridge Building and Power Building: An Ecosystem Approach to Social Change

Better understand how the work of activists, bridge-builders, and organizers can reinforce one another as well as be in constructive tension.

Faire face au roulement des membres (Français) [Navigating turnover in Activist Groups in French)

Guide élaboré pour fournir aux groupes militants des idées et des stratégies pour faire face au roulement des membres, en particulier dans le cas des groupes dirigés par des étudiants.

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Board Games and Social Change: What’s in a Game?

The growing appeal of board games has some important lessons for social change and social movements, argues Steve Wright.

A photograph of two women standing in front of a number of butcher's paper charts. Margie is facing a chart and writing on it. Glen is holding up a chart and facing the group.

Questioning for Learning, Co-creation and Liberation

Questions can be revolutionary! An exploration of different approaches to questioning for organisers and facilitators.

NaManejando la Renovación de Membresia en Grupos Activistas

Manejando la Renovación de Membresia en Grupos Activistas (Spanish – Español)

Guía elaborada para proporcionar ideas y estrategias a los grupos de activistas a la hora de hacer frente a la rotación de miembros, especialmente en el caso de los grupos dirigidos por estudiantes

book cover that reads - Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Collective Organizing. The text is written in red writing over the US Constitution document.

Constitutions: How To Build Durable Groups

Looking at building a group? Here are key questions that any group should consider and define during its formation.

The Spiral Model: A Learning Framework

The Spiral Model is a learning framework for putting our values and principles into action in our social movement training.

The Learning Zone Model

The Learning Zone Model offers three stages we often move through when we are learning something new. Understand how to learn successfully.

Five people sit together in a workshop breakout group. They are smiling and talking to each other.

The Creativity and Skill of Co-Facilitation

Co-facilitation as an important leadership practice. Here are some tools and processes for effective co-facilitation.

Four people sit in a row, all looking downwards and writing notes. Behind them there are charts on the wall from the training workshop they are participating in.

The Art and Craft of Training Workshop Design

Frameworks and key considerations for designing successful training workshops based on Simon Sinek’s Golden Circles.

a large mass of people walking down the street protesting and holding signs. One sign reads Thou shall not mess with women's reproductive rights.

Campaign Starter Pack

This Campaign Starter Pack from Campaign Bootcamp UK contains information, inspiration and activity sheets, based on the experience and knowledge of people who have fought for change.

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Planning your First Campaign: Everyday Activism Handout Pack

Are you planning your first campaign? This Handout is designed to give you the skills and confidence to run your first campaign.

Navigating Turnover in Activist Groups

A Guide developed to provide ideas and strategies for activists groups to implement when dealing with turnover, especially with student led groups.

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How Emotions Mobilise and Sustain the Anti-Coal Seam Gas Movement

Introduction Emotions play an important role in mobilising people to take action on social and environmental issues. In this study of the anti-coal seam gas movement in regional Australia the authors found that anger about coal seam gas mining mobilised people to take action, but the combination of anger with the joy of connecting with […]