Leading Change Network
Summary
Marshall Ganz’s practitioner network — training, resources, and a nonviolent-tactics database maintained by leading organisers.
Body
Marshall Ganz’s Leading Change Network is a practitioner network for organising, public narrative, and movement leadership, convened at Harvard but organised globally through affiliated campaigns and training programmes [source: leading-change-network]. The network maintains a resource centre that complements NAVCO and the Global Nonviolent Action Database; in particular, the tactics database on the resource-centre page indexes nonviolent-action tactics with case references, and it sits alongside the rest of the resource centre’s downloads (curricula, training modules, workshop designs) [source: leading-change-network]. Public-narrative pedagogy (story of self / us / now) is the network’s signature contribution and is the framework most often cited when training new movement leaders [source: leading-change-network].
Coverage on the resource centre spans five practitioner streams: organising; nonviolence, civil resistance, and tactics; public narrative; leadership development; and movement-building research [source: leading-change-network]. The network hosts cohorts of senior movement leaders and trains the next layer of organisers through multi-day in-person programmes and online webinars; its affiliated campaigns include major US civic-society networks that have run voter-engagement, civic-infrastructure, and base-building programmes since the early 2010s [source: leading-change-network]. The network’s pedagogical style - structured storytelling, relational one-to-ones, mentorship chains - is itself exported as a teaching practice [source: leading-change-network].
A campaigner reaches for it when designing a leadership-development or organising curriculum in the Ganz tradition, or when seeking the canonical references for public narrative [source: leading-change-network]. Treat as link-only; the network’s downloadable curricula paraphrase rather than copy verbatim. [source: leading-change-network]
Use it for
Finding organising resources from Marshall Ganz’s network; accessing the Leading Change tactics database.
Related
- affinity-groups
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- public-narrative
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