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Training (category hub)

Summary

The training category covers the methods for designing and running learning experiences for campaigners: workshops, facilitation, action-design practice, consensus training, and skill-building arcs [source: training-for-change].

Body

Campaign training is not only information transfer. Training for Change’s methods library is built around experiential direct education: activities such as go-rounds, fishbowls, spectrum walks, and problem-solving exercises are designed to surface power, difference, oppression, decision-making, and organising dynamics through experience rather than lecture [source: training-for-change].

Seeds for Change adds a complementary group-process tradition. Its guides cover consensus decision-making, facilitation, agendas, roles, energy management, conflict, and campaign skills; the materials are designed so groups can run better meetings and make collective decisions under pressure [source: seeds-for-change]. 350.org’s training hub brings the action-design side: step-by-step guidance for designing actions, running trainings, recruiting volunteers, managing campaigns, and connecting goals, targets, demands, escalation, logistics, legal preparation, communications, marshalling, and debriefs [source: 350-trainings].

Use this hub when a campaign needs to turn knowledge into practice. A good training arc names the skill, gives participants a shared frame, lets them practise, processes what happened, and sends them back into the campaign with a next action.

Use it for

Designing a workshop agenda; building a multi-day training; teaching consensus or facilitation; preparing participants for an action; structuring pre-work and debriefs for a cohort.

FAQ

What is the Training category?

The Training category is the wiki’s grouping for the methods of designing and running learning experiences for campaigners: workshops, facilitation, action-design practice, consensus training, and skill-building arcs [source: training-for-change]. Campaign training is not only information transfer. Training for Change’s methods library is built around experiential direct education [source: training-for-change].

What does the Training category include?

Training for Change’s methods library is built around experiential direct education: activities such as go-rounds, fishbowls, spectrum walks, and problem-solving exercises are designed to surface power, difference, oppression, decision-making, and organising dynamics through experience rather than lecture [source: training-for-change]. Seeds for Change adds a complementary group-process tradition, with guides covering consensus decision-making, facilitation, agendas, roles, energy management, conflict, and campaign skills [source: seeds-for-change]. 350.org’s training hub brings the action-design side [source: 350-trainings].

What is the design discipline?

Use this hub when a campaign needs to turn knowledge into practice. A good training arc names the skill, gives participants a shared frame, lets them practise, processes what happened, and sends them back into the campaign with a next action. The page’s Use it for section gives examples: designing a workshop agenda, building a multi-day training, teaching consensus or facilitation, preparing participants for an action, and structuring pre-work and debriefs for a cohort.

How does the hub connect to other categories?

The hub connects to adjacent categories through the related-page list: adult-learning, workshop-design, facilitation, public-narrative, one-to-ones, leadership-development, and protest-marshals. Together these pages cover the full training-to-action arc: a campaign trains its people, the trained people run workshops, the workshops develop leaders, and the leaders run actions.

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