Consensus Training

Building Emotional Intelligence: Darwin Reconsidered

With a consensus emerging around the capacity of heightened emotional intelligence to positively influence personal, social and intellectual development, this document depicts how to integrate social and emotional learning into the practical ways we live our lives, teach children and create safe spaces.

Trans Inlusion Policy Manual

This manual was written to assist women’s services, including transition houses, sexual assault centres, and women’s centres, in developing trans inclusive policies.

Tips for educators

How to be a positive role model for students.

The New Girls' Movement: Implications for Youth Programs Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women

Capacity building for youth led social change is programmed through the Ms. Foundation for Women. As Americas’ first national, multi-issue women’s fund, the Ms. Foundation directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge projects that nurture girls' leadership skills, protect the health and safety of women, and provide low-income women with the tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. CFYS is a program which supports organizations working at the intersection of positive youth development, youth-led social change and gender-conscious programming.

 

The first round of the collaborative fund, called the Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women, demonstrated that girls, given the proper support and structure, can and want to be social change agents and contribute positively to their wider communities.

Community Empowerment Handbooks / Handbook for Mobilizers

This is a "how-to" book, intended for community mobilizers who want to stimulate social change in a community in the direction of more development, poverty eradication, better governance, increased integrity and transparency in the management of community affairs; in short, empowerment of that community.

 

It includes great handouts, modules and even PowerPoint's.

Dancing on Live Embers-Challenging Racism in Organizations by Tina Lopes and Barb Thomas

This is a hands-on book for people who are trying to create more equitable organizations-front-line staff, managers, administrators, political leaders, union and community educators and activists, boards of directors, teachers, human resource staff, equity officers, and university and college faculty. Read the full synopsis on Tina Lopes website.

Anti-Oppression Organizing Tools

Anti-Oppression Organizing Tools from Los Angeles Direct Action Network on the Colours of Resistance website.

COCo - Centre for Community Organizations

COCo - The Centre for Community Organizations' mission is to promote social justice, active citizenship, democracy, and just socio-economic development by supporting the development of healthy organizations and strong communities.

On this site you can find tools, information, and opportunities for communication and collaboration.
 

Tools for Organizers, Activitst, Educators and other Hell Raisers

An awesome compilation of links for community organizing. Well explained and easy to read and follow, with topics including protests and demonstrations, media activism, event planning, tabling, and anti-oppression.

Student Environmental Action Coalition

SEAC-pronounced "seek," as in "seeking" -is a grassroots coalition of student and youth environmental groups, working together to protect our planet and our future. Through this united effort, thousands of youth have translated their concern into action by sharing resources, building coalitions, and challenging the limited mainstream definition of environmental issues.