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Citizen empowerment in Indiana
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| | Training Associate Matt Guynn (Richmond, IN) and Betsy Raasch-Gilman (St. Paul, MN) have been hired by the Citizens Action Coalition to investigate needs and recommend methods for training citizen leaders in the state of Indiana. Read the beginnings of this exciting curriculum/research project.
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TFC on National Public Radio
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| | Just before Martin Luther King, Jr., Day in January 2007, TFC was contacted by the public radio show "Weekend America," looking for contemporary nonviolent activists to be interviewed about MLK's legacy for today. The interview was broadcast as part of their annual MLK show. The brief interview includes clips from Dr. King's speeches, with comments from TFC trainers Nico Amador, Matt Guynn, Daniel Hunter, and George Lakey.
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TFC's plan in 2007 (post-George's retirement)
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| | Interested in the future of Training for Change's work? We are developing thoughts, hopes, dreams and concrete plans for Direct Education and the work of TfC beyond 2006. All social change trainers, activists and progressives are welcome into this dialogue. Our collected energy and insights are the main ingredient.
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George Lakey retires
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| | At the end of December, 2006, George Lakey carried out TfC's four-year strategic plan and retired as its founding executive director. His report on the fifteen years of his leadership is on this website.
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Celebrating Fifteen years of TFC and the Evolution of Direct Education
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| | Nearing the end of 2006, TFC reports on its work with over 15,000 participants in 700 workshops, 78 trips to 21 countries on five continents, and the many ripples of TFC's report.
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George Lakey Named Swarthmore’s Lang Visiting Professor for 2006-2007
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| | Advocate for Nonviolent Social Change to Serve as Visiting Professor George Lakey, the head of a Philadelphia-based organization internationally known for its leadership in creating and teaching strategies for nonviolent social change, has been selected as Swarthmore College's Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change in 2006-2007.
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TFC Charts its Future: 2007 and beyond
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| | Training for Change is celebrating its 15th year and the retirement of founding director George Lakey. In preparation, the board and TFC's Training Associates look at next steps for the organization.
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TFC is Going Green
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| | TFC is going green. Click here to learn how renovations in our building will make our office building environmentally sustainable. (If plans are fully implemented, it'd be the first existing building to implement the level of green features they intend to use.)
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TFC associate designs curriculum for disabilities rights' organization
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| |  TFC Associate Betsy Raasch-Gilman was asked by Advocating for Change Together (ACT) to design curriculum on power (even in the social service setting), conflict resolution, persuasion and negotiation. ACT is a radical grassroots rights orgnaization run by and for people with with developmental or other disabilities. Over the past two years she has written four units for them on those topics. They are available from ACT for work with people with development disabilities.
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Grassoots Groups Applying Tools from the Strategy Project
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| | Training for Change launched its strategy project a little over a year ago. Already we're hearing from participants about how they're using what they learned...
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TFC Completes Super-T 2005
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| | Training for Change completes yet another Super-T, our 17-day training of trainers (June 3-19, 2005). It is our 10th Super-T. Participants came from Venezuala, Nepal, Liberia and across North America to learn tools and pedagogy to bring back to their movements. This year also marks the highest level of training associate involvement in the Super-T, with TA's Judith Jones, Matt Guynn, Karen Ridd, Daniel Hunter and Erika Thorne all co-facilitating parts of the Super-T.
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2004 Program Report
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| | TFC's 2004 report, including description of The Strategy Project, The Africa Project, international training (Russia, Sierra Leone, Ghana), the evolution of the "direct education" approach, the new website, and over 1,000 participants served.
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Breakfast at The White Dog To Honor Innovators in White Anti-Racism Work
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| |  Antje Mattheus and Lorraine Marino, who led the nationally-recognized workshop series "White People Confronting Racism," will be honored at a breakfast and discussion at The White Dog on September 8th.
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Announcing the Strategy Project
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| | Earlier this year Training for Change launched a new program called The Strategy Project to help activists with a burning question: how do we learn the art of strategy? To help activists with this process, Training for Change created The Strategy Project.
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TFC Finishes Curriculum on Third-Party Nonviolent Intervention
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| |  The rising debate about "humanitarian military intervention" has increased interest in third-party nonviolent intervention to support human rights and peace. Effective training is key to successful alternatives. For two years Training for Change has researched "best practices" in training people in this field
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2003 Program Report
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| | At TfC, 17 trainers assisted 1500 activists to move toward those qualities in 2003. Over 200 of them were given training skills to increase the ripple effect -- so thousands more can become empowered in 2004 to face nonviolently these turbulent times.
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Daniel Hunter appointed Program Director of TfC
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| | Daniel will assist others to use the new TPNI curriculum and focus on another growing edge in the training field: strategizing for social change.
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2002 Program Report
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| | TfC in cooperation with the
Civic House of the University of Pennsylvania launched an Activist
Dialogue Project in May 2001. The one-year project concluded
in May 2002 with two tangible products...The organizers
of Nonviolent Peaceforce asked TfC to draft a training curriculum
for the nonviolent soldiers who would be recruited from around
the world and then sent to areas of hot conflict to save lives
and protect human rights...36 workshops in North American with almost 1,000 participants...
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TfC's White People Working on Racism series selected by national study
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| | The Project Change Anti-Racism Initiative and the Aspen Institute selected TfC to be among the ten U.S. programs described in depth in their new book Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion.
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Human Shields, Third-Party Nonviolent Intervention & Training
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| |  The human shields in Palestine were probably the most publicized episode yet in humanity's series of experiments in inventing a new social technique: third party nonviolent intervention (TPNI).
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2001 Program Report
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| | In ten years TfC has led 6 three-week intensives, travelled to 14 countries on over 50 training trips and led 500 workshops for over 10,000 participants.
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Activist Dialogue Project Invitation
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| | (the activist dialogue project ended in May 2002)
Through facilitated discussions, people are encouraged to seriously engage and deal with some of the conflicts and problems that prevent activists from being as effective as possible. It works to unite three specific groups of activists: community-based you activists, college activists, and older more experienced activists.
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George Lakey Detained at Canadian Border
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| | Training for Change director George Lakey was detained at the Canadian border on Friday, March 30, by immigration officials who were apparently trying to prevent him from leading a controversial nonviolence training in the national parliament a few days later.
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