Trainings for understanding power
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.
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
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
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There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
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To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
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Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
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Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
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Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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