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Ten years ago, I was a community organizer with an ambitious vision for a brighter future. Filled with the desire to learn and the familiar blend of nervousness and thrill that comes with venturing into new horizons, I enrolled in the Leadership, Organizing and Action program with Marshall Ganz. The program transformed my perspective as
This International Seminar will close the project Narratives4change. Capitalising Public Narratives in the organising of Grassroots Roma Women (Marie S-Curie Action, H2020, Project Nr. 841335) run between 2019 and 2022 and led by Dr. Emilia Aiello at the Harvard Kennedy School (host institution, with Prof. Marshall Ganz), and at the Department of Sociology of the
Leadership is about accepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose in the face of uncertainty. During these 3.5 days, participants will have the opportunity to work with peers and leaders from across the country to develop capacity for effective community leadership. Participants will learn five core leadership practices: How to articulate a story
Building Skills for Change in Cortes Island, BC is a groundbreaking new training session which helps people build a strong foundation in the fundamentals of community organizing and learn how to build power and win change. It is taught by Olivia Chow. You will learn: How to articulate a story of why we are called
Campaigners and activists recognize they must use digital tools and tactics like never before—alongside direct action—to build people power and pressure targets to take action. Social Movement Technologies (SMT) offers brilliant opportunities in the form of trainings and resources designed to meet this need—some of the opportunities offered are free of charge. You can check
Artwork by Rosi Greenberg So you took a Public Narrative workshop and found something powerful in the framework, but what next? How to carry forward this craft in your life and bring it to your organization or community for even bigger impact? Become a coach with us! This summer, LCN will be offering a
Post contribution by LCN Member: Tara Dickman, Le Next Level In Le Next Levels's #OpenSource sessions, organizers and movement leaders share their experience, expertise and lessons learned with other organizers and movement leaders in order to help them tackle the issues they may be facing. These sessions are open to members of organizations who are
Dwelling in history has always mesmerized me: the reminiscing about origins and beginnings, the notes scribbled when current successes had only been dreams seeking articulation, and the inspiration of ideas turned into reality. Reading Marshall’s email three weeks ago has raised all those emotions again. In his email, he sent a group of the network
Matrix on Point: Organize! Power and Collective Action May 5th, 2022 4:00pm-5:30pm Pacific Time / 7:00pm-8:30pm Eastern Time What can we learn from historical and contemporary cases about building organizations that engage, mobilize and manage to wield influence on the political process? What kinds of infrastructural choices best support engagement and success in the long
On March 19-20, 2022, the Practicing Democracy Project and the Leading Change Network collaborated to host the first online convening of 68 educators, practitioners and researchers of Community Organizing and Public Narrative from 13 countries to share, explore, and integrate methods of teaching, coaching, and practice—catalyzed recently due to the urgent need to adapt to online learning
