Training for Change
Summary
Philadelphia-based training collective producing curricula and methods for organizers, trainers and facilitators.
Body
Training for Change is a Philadelphia-based training collective producing curricula and methods for organisers, trainers, and facilitators, with a strong focus on experiential, direct-education methods rather than lecture [source: training-for-change]. The collective’s flagship resource is the Training Tool Library - a searchable catalogue of over 100 named training tools and articles, indexed by category, language, and workshop use [source: training-for-change]. The tools are tested in the training room and explicitly designed to be cross-cultural, so the catalogue is one of the more usable open-source menus for a movement-trainer who needs a known-good exercise rather than a generic facilitation tip [source: training-for-change].
The methods library is the working core of the site: each tool is named (go-rounds, fishbowls, spectrum walks, problem-solving triangles, structured dyads, structured controversies) and is published with full instructions, time required, materials list, and processing questions [source: training-for-change]. Each method is designed to surface a specific dynamic - power, difference, oppression, decision-making, group maturity - through experience rather than lecture, and the collection is biased toward activities that work with mixed-skill and mixed-experience groups [source: training-for-change]. The catalogue is structured as a tool-set index rather than a linear curriculum, so a trainer can navigate by group goal rather than by chapter [source: training-for-change].
A campaigner reaches for it when picking an exercise for a workshop on power, oppression, or organising, when designing a multi-day training arc, or when needing a tested activity that has already been run in a wide range of contexts [source: training-for-change]. The library ships with printable handouts and group-processing scripts, so the catalogue is usable as a workshop menu rather than just an inspiration list. Treat as link-only. [source: training-for-change]
Use it for
Picking an exercise for a workshop on power, oppression or organising; designing a multi-day training arc.
Related
- affinity-groups
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- public-narrative
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