Power and Power Mapping

Hosted by Shingai Mushayabasa and Ariel Lew Ai Le Whitson, this interactive workshop will delve into understanding what power is. Understanding power is central to organising. Having a clear definition of power matters to organisers because it informs our strategy and tactics.

You can expect to:

• Learn how power relates to organising.
• Engage with your peers on understanding power.
• Discover and practise using power mapping as a tool to help you think about how to organise.

Shingai is a community organiser, international coach and facilitator with a proven record of organising and training community leaders. Shingai has helped spearhead campaigns on issues like housing rights, migrant rights, climate justice, human rights and UK electoral campaigns. She has coached organising workshops delivered by Harvard Professor Marshall Ganz and worked with partners like the Labour Party, Amnesty, Friends of the Earth, the NUS, Trussell Trust and POMOC.

Ariel has over a decade of experience as a community organiser focused on social justice issues, primarily with environmental and land justice. Before joining Act Build Change, she was the Senior Director of Community Organising and Education at TreePeople, a leading Los Angeles-based NGO, where she led a team of 40 organisers and educators supporting communities impacted by climate change and environmental injustice. Prior to TreePeople, she ran major advocacy campaigns at Ten Strands, securing significant legislative and funding victories for climate literacy. Ariel is passionate about healing the violent separation of land and people through organising.

Cost: 

• Full Members (those with a paid membership): Free - just email info@actbuildchange.com to request your free ticket. If you’re not a paying member but would like to become one, you can register on our membership page (this will also get you access to lots of other great events, trainings and more!).
• Non-members and Basic Members: £15.

Access:

To avoid technical difficulties accessing the workshop, please ensure that you register for the event with the same email address as is attached to the Zoom account you will use to access the session.

Is there anything we need to know to support you to be able to participate well in this online session? This includes but is not limited to language, comfort, access (physical, emotional, technological). Please get in touch and we will do our best to support.