workshop resources
Animal metaphors
Helps organisations appreciate their current strategies and approaches.
Burnout Rating Scale
A terrific resource from Katrina Shield’s book In the Tiger’s Mouth, this worksheet helps you determine how burnout prone your or your organisation might be so you can start taking action now!
‘I want you to know, I need you to hear’
A creative tool for open sharing within established teams. It’s especially useful for organisations where regular communication about personal needs is not straightforward, such as groups whose members are geographically remote from each other.
Mainstream and Margin: Two Roles In Conflict
An overview of the two roles that often appear in group conflicts – mainstream and margins.
Spectrum of allies handout
This resource is to be used in the Spectrum of allies exercise.
Critical path analysis
A critical path charts a sequence of outcomes or changes that are necessary between where we are (here and now) and the resolution of the problem we’re campaigning to solve. This tool helps campaigners to articulate their assumptions about how the intended...
Vision, hope for change and sustainable activism
Collated by Holly Hammond, a collection of worksheets for some personal reflection on your activism, strategies for greater sustainability and other food for thought.
Social Movement Ed2
further information about the workshops, including background on the Change Agency, testimonials, and fee details.
Maximise-minimise learning
A powerful method for engaging participants in a process of becoming responsible learners, identifying strategies for maximising learning, and encouraging personal self-reflection.
Tactics relay
A lively activity to assist participants to think critically and creatively about potential tactics and to reinforce social change frameworks.
Cutting the issue
It’s next to impossible to make a difference on a huge problem. How you ‘cut’ the problem into issues will influence your prospects of success, and the consequent impact. What parts of the problem (and the solution) are amenable to your...
Basic strategy grid
An adapted version of the Midwest Academy’s community organising grid, this simple table provides one way of developing and integrating key pieces of a strategy in a logical sequence.
Steps to climate justice [tCA process guide]
Interactive exercise for climate change activists and action groups, incorporating critical path analysis and facilitating political analysis.
Meeting facilitation: the no magic method
Overview of the role of the facilitator and some ingredients for undertaking productive and effective meetings as recommended by Berit Lakey.
Tactics analysis
An activity to assist groups select effective tactics through dialogue and thinking strategically.
Elements of strategy
A set of considerations to critically appraise strategic decisions.
Rising Tide resource pack
Spring 2007 Rising Tide North America spent four months touring the US & Canada. This resource pack contains step by step explanations of the popular education games, exercises, topics and many of the resources we used.
Lobbying workshop outline and resources
We’ve created a process guide to help facilitators design and lead a 1-2 hour participatory workshop on lobbying. The workshop draws on resources developed by Lois Levy.