A step-by-step workshop outline to introduce participants to lobbying in a way by drawing on peoples’ experience and knowledge incorporating role play. This workshop emphasises lobbying as just one tool in a community organiser’s toolkit.
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Workshop schedule template
A template that can be utilised in planning workshop objectives, rationale, and structure.
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Photolanguage
An exercise to facilitate self-awareness, deepen engagement and relationships, stimulate creativity in personal expression, and connections between intellectual reflection and personal experience.
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Tactics to strategy
A powerful tool to help groups shift focus from tactics to strategy.
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TFC Facing Attack Challenge
Full details on the activity.
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Effective facilitation
Resources for developing effective facilitation skills. Topics covered include: tips for facilitators; running effective meetings; forming agendas; testing for agreement; and decision making models.
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Theories and mechanisms of change
An outline and resources for a 3 hour workshop to facilitate political analysis, reflection and dialogue as a precursor to strategising.
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Sample Workshop Agenda: Team Building
A sample agenda for a whole day team-building workshop.
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Vision gallery
Stretches people’s imaginations in envision and articulate the kind of society they would like to create, going beyond vague values to specific features.
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Media liaison
Workshop notes developed by Graham Jury, an organiser with the Save Happy Valley Coalition in their nonviolent campaign to prevent coal mining on the west coast of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s south island.
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Testimonials
Saul Alinsky on self-interest
In the world as it is, man moves primarily because of self-interest. Organizing should target winnable, immediate, concrete changes.
2016-10-02T09:55:58+00:00
In the world as it is, man moves primarily because of self-interest. Organizing should target winnable, immediate, concrete changes.
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/saul-alinsky-on-self-interest/
Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Where do we go from here?’
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action with education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.
2015-02-11T15:49:46+00:00
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action with education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should...
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/martin-luther-king-jr-where-do-we-go-from-here/