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We’re grateful and blown away that Daniel’s article on 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won has gone viral with over 1.3 million views. It’s a helpful piece to acknowledge different roles and ways of processing.

Waging Nonviolence published some follow-up articles by nonviolent expert Maria Stephan on How we can meet the challenges of authoritarianism and from movement strategist George Lakey: Can nonviolence struggle defeat a dictator? This database emphatically says yes.

Explore our article on : TikTok, InstaGram, YouTube, Facebook

Want to plug in but have no idea where to start? We worked with friends to create the Resistance Guidebook — with practical ideas about some starting points.

Are you working in the (federal) government? You may want this guide: Serve the People: a Guide for Civil Servants/Federal Employees/Military. And then familiarize yourself with this new forming group: Civil Service Strong who is offering comprehensive resources to support.

And we strongly recommend reading this stand-out article: I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.

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Training Agendas now that Trump has won

Here are off-the-shelf training agendas to use and adapt to your own needs.

Trainings to explore possibilities

Group Scenario Planning
3-hour training

Group Scenario Planning
3-hour training

Your group explores possible scenarios for what might happen if Trump is elected to step into how those scenarios might feel, and to experiment with ways the group might show up. Download the Facilitator Guide.

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What Do I Do if Trump Wins
90-minute training

What Do I Do if Trump Wins
90-minute training

Handouts: Personal Plan if Emergency (link to share with participants)

Goals:
* Building personal “break glass in case of emergency” plan — identifying behaviors to do if Trump wins to support my personal self

Includes emotional resilience tools, tools to prioritize energy, broadest introduction to what Trump might do, and resources to explore these themes further.

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Skill-Based Training Modules for Trump Era

Strategic Escalation in a Trump Era
120-minute training

Strategic Escalation in a Trump Era
120-minute training

Goals:
* Understand different of actions: symbolic actions, noncooperation (omission), disruption (commission), and alternative cooperation
* How to be more powerful in action design, from humorous street theater to dilemma actions
* Discuss how tactics may shift under a Trump Presidency
* Touch on action safety and maintaining discipline

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Sense-making and Vision: how did we get here?
120-minute training

Sense-making and Vision: how did we get here?
120-minute training

Goals:
* preparing people emotionally to be ready to fight back (emotional triage),
* girding people for the long fights ahead by making people feel part of a large resistance community (how to organize under the new threat),
* orienting towards our next steps (you can adapt this to your design — here we’re introducing the “Block and Build” strategy).

This design requires some adaptations for your group, including your specific plans next and some chances for leadership to openly reflect on what they’re taking away from this moment. (People will want to hear from you!)

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Action Security and De-escalation
120-minute training

Action Security and De-escalation
120-minute training

Goals:
* how to make actions safer before, during and after an action;
* de-escalation with people on our side and opposition.

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How to talk with people you might disagree with
120-minute training

How to talk with people you might disagree with
120-minute training

Goals:
* Learn skills for bridging with unlikely allies:
– reframing condemnatory ways of communicating
– intro to Race/Class Narrative
– asking open ended questions
– sharing personal narratives
* Committing to at least one place where we will practice (e.g. public invitations or deep canvassing or…).

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Mutual Aid 101
120-minute training

Mutual Aid 101
120-minute training

Handouts: Mutual Aid 101 Handouts

Goals:
* Understand what mutual aid is and why people do it
* Know the initial steps of starting your own neighborhood pod
* Learn about Pod Mapping
Have additional resources for your own mutual aid work

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Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence
120-minute training
by HOPE-PV

Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence
120-minute training
by HOPE-PV

This module comes from the HARNESSING OUR POWER TO END POLITICAL VIOLENCE (HOPE PV) materials. Make a copy of this slide deck for your presentation (and make it shareable, so your participants can participate in editing it).
Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence.pptx
Facilitator Guide: HOPE PV FET Facilitators Guide

Goals:
* Build understanding of the contours of political violence, especially in our own contexts
* Awaken imagination about how we might assertively respond in the face of threats or acts of political violence
* Explore concepts that can help us identify and undermine political violence
* Practice tools and approaches you can use at home right now or in a moment of crisis
* Connect with others who are also working to interrupt political violence
* Celebrate the ways our communities have creatively resisted political violence

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