Tripod Training, our Grassroots Trainers Network cousins north of the border have been working hard to bring you this exciting programme… Apply now!! Join the Organising for Power Programme and you get not just high quality training but months of continued support with your campaigns for racial justice! Are you an organiser or campaigner tackling […]
Building on Rhizome’s personal resilience and burn-out work, developed together with Navigate and Ecodharma, our Grassroots Trainers’ Network colleagues at Navigate are organising a useful workshop in Bristol. From Burnout to Balance: Co-creating cultures of collective and self-care 2 – 4th March 2018, Stokes Croft, Bristol Friday 6.30 – 9pm, Saturday 10.30 – 6.30pm, Sunday […]
What looks to be a useful workshop organised by our colleagues in Navigate, also part of the UK Grassroots Trainers’ Network, even if you didn’t go to the taster: Day workshop – Sat 25th November 2017, 11am – 4pm Fully accessible venue in central Oxford Being involved in campaigns and taking action on issues of […]
If you read our last post, you’ll know that this is the second of a short series of three blogs to introduce and share our free guides in our resources section. This one is on diversity. Our second aim is to remind you also that our blog posts and the rest of this site amplify […]
We’ll be at the Earth First! Summer Gathering offering workshops and learning from others, getting inspired and ready to campaign and organise. Come along to our short workshops on consensus, conflict, mediation, burn-out and resilience, direct action and more. Check out their website for directions, the full programme and what you’ll need to bring, or […]
Tripod is a fellow collective of the Grassroots Trainers’ Network, and ace people to boot. If you’re near Edinburgh, it’s an exciting opportunity to work with them on a fab programme. Tripod: Training for Creative Social Action Project Coordinator Tripod is a small, independent workers’ cooperative which supports groups fighting for social, economic and environmental […]
There’ll be a lot of people in the community activist groups, the campaigning organisations, and the co-operatives that we work with who will be feeling the anger, frustration, disbelief, despondency, resignation, powerlessness and more that an election result like the one we’ve just had here in the UK can bring about. So much time, energy, […]
71%. Let’s say that again: 71% of activists surveyed by Plan To Thrive report having experienced or currently experiencing burnout. Read the Burnout: Experiences & Advice post for both personal and organisational strategies to stay sustainable. For grassroots activists, consider going to Sustaining Resistance which we help facilitate – next dates are in October in the Catalan […]
A couple of weeks ago we co-facilitated the first of the Co-ops UK ‘Working with Conflict’ workshops in Manchester, part of an innovative and responsive training programme commissioned by Co-ops UK and being provided by experienced training co-ops across the country. Rhizome is leading on the working with conflict workshops and we’d opted to pitch […]
“Since about 2009 my activism has focused on trying to build towards a better way of running society from the bottom up with full participation and real direct democracy and on a human scale. The first step seemed to be to get everyone who was active in a variety of ways in a local community […]
