This training shares key tools and helps build skills for developing effective and responsive strategies. Using a hands-on and applied-experiential learning method, participants will learn to analyse contexts, create vision, identify opportunities and challenges, and develop responsive plans to move towards their objectives. At this crucial time for our social movements, the need for focused, well-crafted, and well-informed strategies couldn’t be more important.
The training will follow the structure of a ‘strategy arc’, covering the tools and skills to carry us from clarifying purpose to realising our goals. We’ll explore methods that enable us to develop clear pathways for action, building the capacity and power needed to follow them, and the responsiveness to keep learning and adapting as we go.
“What can we do now in order to be able to do tomorrow what we are unable to do today?” (Paulo Freire)
The structure will enable us to explore cutting edge approaches to:
- Creating vision and clarifying purpose
- Analysing the context and issues
- Mapping power
- Theories of change
- Establishing critical pathways and objectives
- Getting things done
- Building feedback loops and responsiveness into our practice
- Evaluating and learning from our actions.
A more detailed outline of content and structure will follow in the coming weeks.
Who is it aimed at?
Participants involved in activism and organising addressing ecological, political and social justice issues – who want to make their actions and energy count.