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Last month we launched our Campaign Strategy Guide, the first of six instalments of the People Power Manual. It's popular... and now in the hands of campaigners in eight countries and right around Australia.

We're now hard at work on the second instalment - a collection of resources on community organising for activists and organisers. Like the Campaign Strategy Guide, this will be a 'cookbook' of our favourite 'recipes'. Already, our working draft contains almost 50 workshop outlines and handouts on every aspect of community organising. We hope to publish this over summer.

So here's the kicker... How did you learn organising? How do you share and build these skills with others? Do you design and lead workshops to teach relational and online organising, personal and campaign narrative, community mobilisation, alliance building, door-knocking, phone-banking, recruitment... and other organising skills? Do you have favourite workshops? If you have resources you're happy to share, we'd love to hear from you and to include your resources with attribution.

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Great online resources

Enews subscribers regularly share with us the websites and online resources they’re developing, discovering and learning from in their community organising. Enjoy this month’s batch and be sure to drop us a line to suggest links for the next enews.

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People power

Politicians ignore people power at their peril

Nathan Elvery writes: Online petitions are redistributing power in the most fundamental way any generation has seen – away from a male, pale and stale elite minority and into the hands of ordinary citizens from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. If this accelerates the policy-making process and makes it more inclusive, surely that's positive.

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CVH toolkit

Base building (CVH Organizing Tool Kit)

  Why is it important to build a large base of people? An organization or a campaign builds a large base in order to have enough power to win. Numbers matter! The more people we can mobilize to show our power, the more power we will have to make policy changes to improve our members’ lives.

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cancer council

A win for patients, thanks to grassroots campaigning

Passion and determination led to a win. The Cancer Council has trained and supported community members in advocacy and political engagement. This investment enabled people to take these opportunistic actions during the campaign.  This grassroots campaign worked because we had nurtured activism amongst our volunteers and supporters. Individual advocates met with MPs and candidates, held community events, and secured media coverage.  

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more accessible

9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible

Social justice and feminist culture are incredible positive forces that can transform the way we see ourselves and the world around us.  But sometimes those same activist cultures can be unnecessarily exclusive – and worse, inaccessible and elitist. Here are nine ways I’m trying to make my activism more accessible to everyone.

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Upcoming learning opportunities and events

For details of other workshops and learning opportunities, visit our calendar.

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Australian Facilitators Network

AFN conference 'Facilitating Wholeness' | 5-6 November, Ballina NSW

We invite you to join us at the 18th Australian Facilitators Network conference at Ballina Beach Village on 5–6 November 2015. Pre-conference workshops will be running on 3–4 November. Come enjoy this unique conference with fabulous workshops and wonderful people. This year’s conference theme is Facilitating Wholeness.  

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sydney facilitators network

Listening to words, and imagining meanings | 9 November, Sydney

In this Sydney Facilitators Network session, Colin Harrison will attempt to push the boundaries of the practice of facilitation. Using his experience as a communications specialist, he will use a number of novel techniques to explore the dynamics of group communication. He also believes that it is easier to change ideas through leading behaviour than the other way around: the session will therefore …

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community development

Community Development Introductory Course | 9 November, Melbourne

Facilitated by Jim Ife & Jacques Boulet Become more confident in designing & facilitating community development programs & activities  Learn practical ways of empowering communities  Understand the basic concepts of Community Development  Examine power and change processes  Discuss community development practices  Hold conversations with experienced Community Development workers  Access to further learning resources  Come to understand the field  Use the …

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groupwork institute

Self awareness at work | 10 November, Melbourne

This one day training builds actual workplace self awareness at a practical level which can be used immediately. Self awareness is the primary building block of emotional resilience. In turn, emotional resilience is applied emotional intelligence. It gives us the capacity to be 'bold' - to speak up, to share our ideas, take risks and use our full potential.  It …

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community development

Community Development Intermediate Course | 11 November, Melbourne

Facilitated by Jim Ife & Jacques Boulet    - Become more confident in designing & facilitating community development programs & activities:  Feel more confident in practicing community development in your workplace  Examine the issues, challenges and dilemmas of Community Development  Connect theory with practice  Hold conversations with decision makers & other Community Development workers  Access to further learning resources  Use …

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not-for-profit people

Not-for-profit people conference | 16-17 November, Melbourne

“Amazing” . . . “One of the best conferences I’ve been to” . . . ”Awesome calibre” . . . “Loved it” . . . “Brilliant conference” . . . “It was outstanding” . . . “I left feeling inspired”. That’s just a fraction of the feedback we received from almost 300 attendees at last year’s Not-For-Profit People Conference. And …

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FWD 2105

FWD 2015 | Melbourne, 19-20 November

FWD is Australia’s premier conference run by and for digital campaigners. We will bring together 250+ campaigners to share experiences and skills, explore the latest trends, and develop joint projects. Register here >

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