Description
Over the last eight years we have trained over 5,000 people on topics related to social movements. As we know, training limits us to availability in time, space, and capacity. We have recently worked on updating and converting the best concepts and lessons we have accrued over the years into an online format. Now, we are excited to share them with you!
As movement practitioners and researchers, we know that social movements are complex organisms to understand because of the amount of individuals and organizations involved and the many years they take from beginning to end. In our historical research of social movements we have identified what we believe are key patterns that reveal the dynamics of how they operate. We believe that these patterns can bring the strategic breakthroughs that many of us are after.
This past year, we have done our best to try to synthesize some of the complex theory, frameworks and examples we have found into 11 sessions. This self-paced course will provide strategic tools and an orientation on social movements to organizational leaders, activists and those who belong to issue-affiliated organizations. Some of the important lessons we explain include:
- How social movements use popular support to shift cultures, societal orders and the rules of the game.
- How movements require multiple major strategies to occur simultaneously, and the power that can emerge from their collaboration, which we call Movement Ecology.
- And how in order to understand movements, we need to observe how they manifest in cycles of five to 15 years. We have broken down these cycles into what we call Seasons, each with particular patterns that emerge which provide recommendations on how to better navigate them.
This is a living course that will continue to evolve. The course consists of interactive videos and exercises, and in the future we plan to host events, include more supplemental material, and build more activities for you to deepen your learning and experiences in relation to social movements.
Included with your enrollment is access to our Leadership and Organizational Seasons Mini-Course. You can learn more about the course by clicking the link here.
**This course is an evolution of our previous Movement Ecology (2017-2018) and Movement Strategy (2019-2020) trainings.**