Finance Team at Climate Camp are appealing for your cash. Here’s what they have to say: Dear everyone, The Edinburgh camp starts next week, but we really need some cash NOW. If you’re coming and can make a donation now, ahead of the camp, please do today. Or if you can’t come, but you support […]
Our experiment with strategy-themed posts is over … hopefully you’ve found it worthwhile. We’ll continue writing about participation, activism, consensus and more (including strategy) and bring you a new theme later in the year. Tell us what you’d like that theme to be – use the comments fields below, send us an email, give us […]
As promised here are some edited highlights from the interview with Milan Rai and Gabriel Carlyle. The interview was recorded on a small digital voice recorder in a tent at the Peace News Summer Camp. Unsurprisingly the sound quality was low and I won’t inflict it on you. Instead I’ve trawled through it and transcribed […]
Over the course of Sunday and Monday I facilitated 3 two-hour workshops at the Peace News Summer Camp. I also grabbed the opportunity to pin down Milan Rai and Gabriel Carlyle, of the Peace News editorial team as well as long-term activists and movement builders, to interview them about strategy. More of that when I’ve […]
I have to admit to regularly using the word ‘guys’ to refer to my fellow human beings whether male or female. To me it has always seemed gender-neutral and I’ve used it with no conscious gender connotations. But no more. Two events happened in quick succession on Monday. At the end of my ‘advanced facilitation’ […]
Upcoming workshop: 8th-10th October 2010 Plunge into a deeper exploration of consensus and facilitation in activist movements – whether in small or large groups, networks, open or closed groups. This weekend is for people with experience of facilitating consensus who want to deepen their skills and understanding, to share problems and look for solutions. It […]
As promised at the start of our strategy conversation, here are some links for further reading and tools and techniques: Readers of our blog may be familiar with story based strategy as told by smartMeme, particularly their Re:Imagining Change publication. They also have downloadable worksheets for the various strategy steps, also on their resources page. […]
Just been emailed to tell me about the .Activist ‘Online Campaigning’ conference on 7th August. Looks like a useful resource for activists and all those that work with them:
I’ve been working up an agenda for a 2 hour strategy workshop at the Peace News Summer Gathering – co-facilitated by Rich at Seeds for Change. It’s great timing – happening alongside the conversation that’s been taking place on this blog about strategy. We want to start where people are at and help them explore […]
Peter Chowla from the Bretton Woods Project shares some insights on strategy for small NGOs, taken from the BWP’s current round of strategic planning. You can hear his thoughts in this 10 minute interview: pchowla_interview We’ve also transcribed a few nuggets below: Why do strategy? Seven Years on [from our last strategic review], after a […]
