Trainings if Harris concedes
Here are off-the-shelf training agendas to use and adapt to your own needs.
Trainings Before the Election
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.
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.
Trainings RIGHT AFTER A trump win
Emergency Call: We Won’t Go Back
120-minute mass call
Emergency Call: We Won’t Go Back
120-minute mass call
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 tweaks to your group’s approach. Since this is a huge chance for absorption, we suggest including that as well at the end.
Staff Call After a Harris Concession: Regroup to Fight Back
90-minute staff call
Staff Call After a Harris Concession: Regroup to Fight Back
90-minute staff call
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!)
There are more of us: community gatherings
2-hour community gatherings
There are more of us: community gatherings
2-hour community gatherings
These are designed as in-person trainings soon after a Harris concession. People invite their supportive families/friends and use this training to lick their wounds. Designed so it can be successfully facilitated by anyone.
You can host or find gatherings at: WeAreWorthFightingFor.org.
Handouts: Community Gathering Handouts
Goals:
* Strengthen community spirit for what’s ahead
* Give voice to our emotions in these times
* Share plans on what we want to offer each other going forward
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
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!)
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.
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…).
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
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