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.
This article introduces some of the key concepts of transformative justice and provides links to a wide array of resources. Transformative justice describes a systems approach to identifying root causes of conflict and responding to these as a community.
A selection of tools and techniques – both formal and informal – for facilitating meetings, workshops and events by Rhizome.
An in-depth guide by Seeds for Change about facilitating meetings and how to make them more effective, inclusive and enjoyable.
The Institute of Community Directors has a comprehensive collection of resources to support good governance by not-for-profits. Check out these links to get started.
Reports, toolkits, templates and guides from Mobilisation Lab including campaign strategy, storytelling, digital campaigning, security and more.
ChangeMakers Organising School – Training (videos and slides) to connect and deepen knowledge to organise for social change.
Want to know how to run a large scale volunteer led phonebank? Learn from the Sunrise Movement and how they managed their teams.
List of digital tools activists have used to support effective meetings, training and conferences that complement and/or integrate with Zoom.
After a big year of effort it’s important to take time for reflection, evaluation, team-building, celebration, and planning. These resources will help.
Do you want to double the engagement and productivity of your next online meeting? Here is a visual guide with practical & easy to use tips.
Tired of making new slide decks for interactive tools? Want new ideas on participatory methods online? Looking for new games and warm-ups? The “Online Monster Manual” is a compilation of 80+ online training tools from 350 globally.
Need to know how to run virtual conferences or retreats? Australian Progress share lessons learned from their experiences with you.
An inspiring list of feature films and documentaries about women and social change including Women of Steel, Suffragette, Mission Blue, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry and more.
Do you want to know about building leadership teams and organising? 12 videos by Marshall Ganz that will help you learn all about setting up a team.
Learn how to facilitate inclusion, manage power dynamics and hold space with awareness and intentionality in virtual meetings and spaces.
Andrew Willis-Garces shares tips on how not to get caught out by the influence of professional middle class meeting culture in your online meetings. Consider the wellbeing of the group over trying to crunch in every single agenda item.
Get the most out of your online meetings with these facilitation tips, how-to guides, help with tools, and tips for working from home.
Tips for organisations, collectives and grassroots groups first engaging in online meetings. Includes tips for facilitators and participants.
This clear and easy guide produced by The Australian Conservation Foundation will help you set up and run an online meeting using Zoom.
Tips from Blueprints for Change on how to have virtual meetings.