Martin Luther King, Jr., defined power as the ability to achieve purpose. Each of these trainings offer teams important tools for understanding how to build and organize power for systems change.
Trainings for understanding power
Art of Leadership
Using power effectively means having difficult conversations, dealing with stress and challenging emotions, as well as planning and collaborating effectively. This material will help to hone those skills.
Rockwood Leadership Institute
Midwest Academy
Resources from a national training institute focused on progressive movements for social justice.
Midwest Academy
The Management Center
Training to help leaders working for social change build and run more effective organizations.
The Management Center
Race Forward: Racial Justice Trainings
A collection of interactive trainings for those who wish to sharpen their skills and strategies to address structural racism and advance racial equity.
Race Forward
Racial Equity Institute
Offering racial equity workshops, trainings, presentations, and consultations.
Racial Equity Institute
Racial Equity Learning Module: Power Analysis
Exploring power, how it’s implemented, and how it may be dismantled through critical thinking.
Racial Equity Tools
Color Of Change
Color Of Change designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, & champion solutions that move us all forward.
Color Of Change
Leading Change Network
Developing leadership and supporting organizers around the world through a community of practice, ongoing learning and coaching.
Leading Change Network
SWITCH PATHWAYS
GROW COMMUNITY
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