Introducing the SSS workshop: Story, Strategy, Structure

The SSS workshop, which stands for Story, Strategy, Structure, is a workshop model designed for a specific core team in their journey to lead a campaign to address an urgent challenge their community is facing. Long-standing groups find the workshop to be a critical opportunity to revitalize their narrative and strategy, giving them the space to reflect, renarrate, and strategize. For emerging groups, the workshop is a way to build their campaign roadmap, to reach a collective vision and a real campaign strategy and timeline.

In February this year, LCN embarked on a journey to Uganda with our long-term partner organization International Justice Mission to support a remarkable group of women in their endeavor to initiate a campaign. Through the SSS workshop model, the core team of 12 women developed their roadmap for a powerful campaign to pursue justice and accountability with women impacted by Intimate Partner Violence. Now they have gone on to build the first tier of leadership of 23 organizers across 3 cities.

The SSS workshop has played a powerful role in launching and growing campaigns in various countries and contexts, such as Jordan, Lebanon, Sweden, US, Denmark and Ghana.

Join us on Thursday, May 30th 2024 at 9-11am Eastern Time to learn about how the SSS workshop can build organizing power in communities and move people to action!

LCN Executive Director Mais Irqsusi will share all about SSS workshops, including the pedagogical design, challenges and achievements, and real examples of how this format of workshops have been used to launch grassroots campaigns. Come explore rich lessons on what makes a SSS workshop successful, from pre-workshop preparations and selection, to workshop design and implementation, and post-workshop support.

We will also launch resources for the SSS workshop: a campaign blueprint used by participants when planning their campaign, and a sample agenda!

This session is exclusively for LCN members. If you have an active membership, Please login to view the registration form.

Event Information:

Topic: Introducing the SSS workshop: Story, Strategy, Structure
Cost: Free for LCN members
Date: Thursday, May 30th 2024
Time: 9-11am US Eastern Time / 4-6pm Amman Time / 8-10pm Indochina Time
Location: Online

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Questions & answers

What is the SSS workshop?

SSS workshop focuses on Story, Strategy, and Structure as the main outputs of the workshop. It is held over 2-3 days for a specific core team of a constituency to agree on a collective strategic direction, and formulate a real campaign strategy and timeline. For groups that have been working together for a long time, the workshop serves as space to reflect, renarrate and restrategize. For groups who are just emerging, the workshop becomes a Campaign Roadmap Workshop, starting from our stories to our vision and strategy and how we will make it work out. Though both might seem different there’s a lot of similarities in these two in how the SSS model helps facilitate make us reach a better place in our narrative, direction and tools of collaboration to get us there.

What will this event cover?

The session will cover various aspects of SSS workshop, including the pedagogical design, example from the ground, and key lessons around planning and running a successful workshop

Who is this event for?

The session is exclusively for LCN members. If you are not an LCN member, you can join our community here.

Whether you are a trainer working to develop leaders and organizers, an organization looking for ways to seed and support campaigns on the ground, or just curious to learn about SSS workshops, this session is for you.