Hope Is Not a Strategy

Strategy is turning the resources we have into what we need to win.

In this workshop, you will be introduced to strategy in an organising context. We will create tactics that broaden and deepen our power-building base and learn how to develop campaigns that grow community leadership.

This session will be interactive and participatory. We will share examples of real campaigns that our teams have worked on, as well as drawing on your experience to get creative in the world of organising campaign strategies.

You will learn:

• What strategy is and how to use it to build collective people power.
• The difference between a problem and an issue.
• How to be creative in your tactics to deepen depth and breadth in your organising.

Meet the facilitators

Stephanie Wong is a community organiser, facilitator and collective care practitioner. She has won with many others on issues from citizenship for young people, securing better wages for 1000s of staff and winning housing for those seeking asylum. She has trained hundreds of community leaders who have gone on to win local and national policy change and political elections. She has taught at Stanford, Harvard, UCL and LSE University. She built Act Build Change with her husband Ricky in 2018 in response to some of the inaccessible ways organising was taught in the UK. Together, they hoped to give a contribution to the field of organising that would allow more of us to get great organising training in accessible, dignified and transformative ways.

Son Olszewski is a Community Organiser at Act Build Change. He brings years of experience working with migrant, racialised, queer and working class communities, having organised with Migrants Organise, ACORN, POMOC as well as local groups of friends and neighbours.

Cost

• Free for Full Members (those with a paid membership) – email info@actbuildchange.com to request your free ticket.
• £15 for everyone else.

If you would like to become a Full Member (and get access to lots of other great events, trainings and more), visit our membership page to get started.

Access

This event will be held online using Zoom. The link will be shared with registered attendees before the start of the event.

To avoid difficulties accessing the workshop, please ensure that you register for the event with the same email address that you intend to use on Zoom.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your participation in this session. This includes, but is not limited to, language, comfort, and access (physical, emotional, technological) needs.