The most comprehensive Online Training Monster Manual — over 80 tools to make your workshops and events more participatory and interactive! The Monster Manual features common tools like spectrum of allies, pillars of support, polls, and online spectrums. It includes speciality organizing tools for analysis and tactic generation like paper plate challenge and Action MadLibs. It boasts a wide number of energizers guaranteed to lift your online events!
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Social Justice Toolbox
Twenty terrific workshop resources on privilege, ally-ship, race and racism. The Social Justice Toolbox is a resource hub for free, curated, ready-to-rock social justice activities and facilitation guides designed to help you make the most of your diversity workshops and social justice trainings.
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What do I say? A guide to language about disability
Excellent guide produced by People with Disability Australia. “Ableist language is language that is offensive to people with disability. It can also refer to language that is derogatory, abusive or negative about disability. Ableism is the systemic exclusion and oppression of people with disability, often expressed and reinforced through language…”
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Open sentences
Open Sentences is a structure for spontaneous expression. It helps people listen with rare receptivity as well as speak their thoughts and feelings frankly. People sit in pairs, face to face and close enough to attend to each other fully. They refrain from speaking until the practice begins. One is Partner A, the other Partner B…
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19 must-see historic Australian peaceful protest documentaries
There’s never been a better time to brush up on our rich history of peaceful protest movements. Everyday people have protected land rights, our natural world and climate, workers rights, LGBTIQ+ rights and much more. While we bunker down during the COVID-19 pandemic, let’s take inspiration from stories of our recent history. Our past is full of examples where people power has overcome profiteering mining corporations and the politicians who backed them, systemic racism, and discrimination to name a few of the big challenges we face.
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tCA’s new training guides (drum roll please …)
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We’re super proud to announce the 2020 edition of the Campaign Strategy training guide, now available as a download and in beautiful hard copy. The Change Agency team have been designing, collecting and adapting activist education curriculum for more than 15 years. Working with Jason MacLeod and Pasifika, we’ve been striving to transform our combined…

Locked down? Try organizing
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“We’re caring for our communities as best we can – but many of us also find ourselves stuck indoors, looking for new ways to build resilience so we can come out of this crisis into a more just and sustainable world. For some, organizing is a big part of getting there.”
The training team at 350.org highlight some tools – all accessible online – that can help you learn about climate activism and spark thinking on how you can organize your own community to make change once restrictions loosen. These online tools and resources will help you learn how to build impactful campaigns to fight the climate crisis.
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SessionLab: Workshop planning made simple
Resources for collaborative workshop design including a great collection of icebreakers and energisers, diagnosis tools and process ideas.
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Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual
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This 180+ page volume offers progressive organizers 14 vitally important how-to guides containing the strategic and tactical wisdom of over 100 progressive campaigners. These guides focus on in-demand topics (see below) and include strategies and tactics that are field-proven and in-demand throughout the global progressive movement.
The guides cover online and offline campaign methods and tactics, including networked coalitions and distributed organising, digital organising tools and digital security. Highly recommended.
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Our Wise Democracy Pattern Language
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This is exciting. Tom Atlee and the Co-Intelligence Institute team have developed a terrific collection of 96 patterns they describe as… “features or design principles that we believe would show up repeatedly in a democracy characterized by collective wisdom, as manifested in collective decisions and behaviors that generate long term broad benefits and healthy living systems, both human and natural.” Wow.
The patterns are available as a beautiful set of 96 cards, along with suggested activities to help your group explore how these patterns speak to their group life – current or hoped for. “Some activities are about using the patterns to analyze real or hypothetical situations or democratic examples. Some are more focused on self-improvement and building community among students and practitioners, or spreading the word to invite others into this wise democracy adventure. And some stimulate us to be creative about wise democracy ideas.” You can also download a facilitators guide and other resources.
If you use these resources in your work, we’d love to hear your experience. I know Tom values feedback.
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