Seeds for Change
Summary
A UK-based collective producing open training resources on consensus decision-making, facilitation, group process and campaign skills.
Body
https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk
Seeds for Change is a UK-based workers’ cooperative producing open training resources, meeting facilitation, and consultancy for groups campaigning on social and environmental justice [source: seeds-for-change]. The collective operates as a non-hierarchical workers’ co-op and describes its mission as supporting community campaigns and national networks to organise in a more strategic, effective, and empowering way [source: seeds-for-change]. Its funding model is fee-for-training and grants rather than philanthropic dependency, which is unusual among UK movement-trainers and informs the way its materials are designed [source: seeds-for-change].
Coverage: training topics include collective organising, strategy development, campaign and action skills, group setup, consensus decision-making, running co-operatives, and training-for-trainers - the menu spans a campaign’s full lifecycle but is weighted toward the process, facilitation, and decision-making side rather than the tactic-design side [source: seeds-for-change]. The website publishes free downloadable resources (workshop agendas, handouts, and how-to guides) under a Creative Commons licence, plus a paid-for training programme where Seeds for Change facilitators run workshops in person or online [source: seeds-for-change]. Where WRI covers the campaign lifecycle top-to-bottom and CANVAS covers the operational curriculum, Seeds for Change is the UK movement’s go-to resource for the “how do we run this meeting?” question [source: seeds-for-change].
A campaigner reaches for it when designing a UK or European movement-education programme, when training new facilitators in consensus and power-sharing, or when needing a workshop-ready handout that has already been run in dozens of grassroots groups. The CC licence means materials can be adapted with attribution. [source: seeds-for-change]
Use it for
Designing a workshop agenda; explaining consensus to a new group; structuring a meeting under time pressure.
Related
- affinity-groups
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- public-narrative
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