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Story Detours are simple instructions meant to help in moving creative strategic thinking off our well-worn tracks. Having trouble with your strategy? Feel like you’ve been telling the same story for too long, without enough impact? Draw a Detour card when you’re stuck crafting a story-based strategy, and follow the instructions to experiment and give your imagination a different route to take. Also available as an online tool.
This two-page document provides an overview of story-based strategy, walking you through the steps of analysis and strategic work that will sharpen the impact of your narrative interventions!
Available in Spanish, English, and Traditional Chinese.
The six-page PDF includes instructions, worksheet, and an example to get you started mapping the movies, shows, books and entertainment your audiences consume, and how to match stories with the kinds of actions you want your audience to take. Developed in collaboration with our friends at New Media Mentors.
Staring at a blank page can be overwhelming, even for experienced change-makers planning a creative action. Get the creativity flowing by getting out of analysis mode and just prototyping an intervention, using the Picture This! deck, by yourself or with a group.
This three-page document includes two pages of No Burnout Bingo plus a third blank page for creating your own. Download it now and keep yourself and your friends sustainably involved in building movements for collective liberation.
Print this two-page document and distribute to friends, comrades and coworkers to help assess sustainability in your community and support each other in movement work!
This 4-page PDF includes instructions on using #the4thBox in meetings, discussions and workshops. If we want outcomes of equality, equity and liberation in our lives and work, then we need to empower learners to explore, vision and pursue these goals themselves, and THAT’s where #the4thbox comes in.
This .ZIP contains a high-resolution .PSD file for editing in Photoshop or GIMP. Get started creating your own take on #the4thBox today!
Print this 4 page PDF in color for workshops and activities. Participants can cut the pieces out – adding any original artwork they create – and combine the pieces into their own vision for what goes in #the4thbox.
Explore what’s beyond Equality and Equity. Play The 4th Box Simulation Game and begin your journey in discovering possible answers to, "How did we get here?" and "How can we move beyond this?
FREE to download & play.
Play in Spanish or English.
Download on Google Play or the Apple Store
This 90-minute self paced workshop will introduce you to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in theory and use using Story-based Strategy. Participants will be provided with a practical framework for understanding issues of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in their work and how using a Story-based Strategy can assist in both assessment and planning.
The fun way to get everyone involved in resisting U.S. fascism & building power to defeat it. 4 bingo cards available in Spanish, Portuguese, English, & Chinese. Each PDF comes with a bonus 5th blank card for creating your own! Built in collaboration with our friends at Bay Rising & Design Action.
Available in Spanish, Portuguese, English & Chinese
Story Detours are simple instructions meant to help in moving creative strategic thinking off our well-worn tracks and towards innovation! This is an online tool, there is also a printable version here.
Each Picture This! card indicates three constraints for you to follow in designing an action or intervention. Get the creativity flowing and get out of analysis mode. Picture This! is also available for purchase as a physical deck of cards.
Game Changer is a fun, funny, and fast card game about and for direct action organizing that engages players' radical imagination. Each round, one player is the Decider, and the other players must try to convince them that their protest tactic is the best one for the situation. But watch out for the Game Changer cards, which - well - change the game! It only takes a minute or two to learn. Made with our friends at Tesa Collective.