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- Attending a Meeting - How you can Play a Role in its Success
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
From job interviews to strategy sessions, it's important to make a good impression in any meeting. Making a good impression starts with careful planning and preparation.
- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
- Bourinot's Rules of Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
- Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
- Clearness
Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Consensus decision-making
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Educating for a Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
- Event Planning
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
A blueprint for planning and executing special events with flair and without any unexpected surprises and expenses.
- How to Make Meetings Work
The New Interaction Method
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- How to Make Union Meetings Interesting and Useful
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Meetings should give members a sense of power by bringing them together. They can see and feel that they are not alone, that others have similar problems, and that others have found solutions. They can learn from each other, combine ideas, and build something bigger.
- It Ain't the Meeting Its The Motion
Resource Type: Article
A guide to conducting productive and inclusive meetings in the context of social change.
- Managing Wastes
A Guide to Citizens' Involvement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Second editon of booklet first published in 1984, outling how citizens can involve themselves in decision-making about waste management.
- A Manual for Group Facilitators
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- Meeting Collectively
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Article
Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- Overcoming Male Oppression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1988
People join a social change movement in order to alleviate an external problem. Too often we are confronted with the same kind of behaviour we find in our everyday lives. We are all too often stifled by heavy handed authority: bosses at work, parents or spouse at home and teachers at school.
- Pragmatics of Community Organization
First Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
- Proven Methods for Planning more Efficient, Productive Meetings
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Meetings can be highly effective for addressing issues or achieving your organization's goals. They also have the potential to consume time and energy better spent elsewhere without careful planning and management.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- Robert's Rules of Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- The Theology of Consensus
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Consensus decision-making has dominated social movements for forty years. Let’s try something different. Outside of small-group settings, consensus process is unwieldy, off-putting, tiresome, and ineffective. Many inclusive, accountable alternative methods are available for making decisions democratically. If we want to change the world, let's pick ones that work.
- Trend spotting - Coffee is the new lunch
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Trend spotting - Coffee is the new lunch. Times change. "Coffee is the new lunch." Business meeting over coffee. There, you have it. A simple concept, but one charged with implications.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- Untying the Knot
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- What is Consensus?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Consensus evolved from the meeting process of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is a non-violent way for people to relate to each other as and in a group. Successful use of a consensus process depends on people understanding the idea and wanting to use it.
- Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
- Working Collectively
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A handbook for people wishing to form collectives, or established collectives seeking solutions to problems such as power imbalances, conflict meditation, and setting priorities.
- Working for Peace
A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A survey of the attitudes and tools that can be used in working for peace.
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