On this page you'll find resources for nonviolent direct action and anti-oppression trainers/preparers and magical activism workshop facilitators. You'll find web resources, sample agendas, exercises, wall charts, handouts, and notes on how trainings went.
Organizing and Training sites: two sites that are invaluable in providing information on activism training and organizing.
www.trainersalliance.orgwww.organizingforpower.org
Sample Agendas:
- Short Agendas:
Nonviolent Direct Action Training Agenda (WTO/A16)
Philadelphia Action Basic
3-hr. Vandenberg Prep
Prague Brainstorm
Prague Sample Agenda
- Long Agendas:
Prague Mass Actions Training Plan
Training/Training for Trainers
Magical Activism:
Magical Activism IdeasMagical Activism Agenda
Legal
Trainings -- from Midnight Special Law Collective
Legal
Observor Workshop
Handouts:
What can Direct Action do? -- How Nonviolence Works in Direct Action CampaignsMaking Nonviolence Work - by Starhawk
Consensus Resources:
Consensus Process / ToolsConsensus is not Unanimity
Cafe'/Charette
Affinity
Groups (from the Melbourne S11 Trainings)
Strategy:
Stages of a Movement/Strategy Questions (George Lakey)Mass Direct Action by George Lakey
Medical:
Tear Gas/Pepper Spray and Medical info(from Prague)Trauma Overview -- Symptoms and Healing
Grounding
and Centering
Some resources
for roleplaying
Anti-Oppression Exercises:
Class and Race ExerciseWhite Protestors/Black cops
Tools for White Guys
Benefits of Being Male
Benefits of Being White
Jail, etc.
Organizing in JailJail Support
Solidarity and Jail
Solidarity -- a Rough GuideSurviving Jail
Coming Out of Jail Stronger (coming Out of Jail 2)Trauma Overview
Safety
in trainings--discussion
Sample Feedback Form for A16 trainees
198 Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion
Wallcharts
used for Prague 2000/ mass action training
The above chart includes:
What Can Direct Action Do?
Nonviolent Direct Action
Used Against Us:
Responding to Violence
Jail Solidarity
Tools we used: (for Training for trainers)
Constructive Critique
