Since 1992, Training for Change (TFC) has honed and shared its cross-cultural education methods with activists and educators the world over. It has facilitated custom-designed experiential workshops in some 20 countries, on every continent. The core of Training for Change's international mission is to provide the best training of trainers methodology to build local training capacity, free from outside dependency. The TFC approach is to support and challenge activists and trainers to step fully into their power, so they can carry and share the skills they learn, on their own.

The pedagogy of Training for Change is rooted in a deep understanding of the distinct framework provided by strategic nonviolent struggle. Its activist training methods have been developed over decades of grassroots work, helping build and expand a wide variety of nonviolent movements.

Training for Change has trained extensively in Thailand, Burma, Nagaland, the Balkans, Russia, Indonesia, and Australia. Training for Change has also provided Training of Trainers and Nonviolent Action Strategy workshops in Ecuador, Mexico, South Korea, Northeast India, Cambodia, Nepal Italy, Poland, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. It has trained with national liberation movements, ethnic minorities, women's groups, youth and students organizations, gay and lesbian / LGBT activists, labour unions, faith-based communities, pro-democracy movements, and local as well as international NGO's.

Some of the main workshop titles offered by Training for Change include:

• Strategic Facilitation. Organizational strategic consulting for nonviolent movement development, as part of one-organization retreats, or coalition building sessions.
• Direct Action Preparation workshops. Tactical training in the methods of nonviolent intervention, including the use of civil disobedience and peacekeeper training.
• Nonviolent Action Strategy 101. Introductory sessions, with experiential methods, on the relevance and power of nonviolent struggle, with historical case studies and hands-on strategizing tools.
• Nonviolent Action Training of Trainers. Multi-day workshop on how to train others in the theory and tactics of strategic nonviolent action, including how to facilitate Nonviolent Action Strategy 101.
• Third Party Nonviolent Intervention. How to defend human rights practitioners and activists against violence, a training for volunteers likely to go into hazardous conditions. Includes protective accompaniment, monitoring/observing, presence, and interposition techniques.
• Diversity and Anti-oppression workshops including Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud (experiential workshop by and for African-Americans); Whites Confronting Racism (for white people seeking to work for racial justice); Class Matters (on the hidden dynamics of class and its relevance to movement building and social change).
• Sustainable activism. How to build leadership skills and find the personal nourishment in order to maintain a life-long commitment and effectiveness in nonviolent struggles.
• The Super-T. A three-week intensive training of trainers based on the following four workshops.
1. Training for Social Action Trainers (basic training of trainers). An intensive workshop designed for experienced facilitators and new trainers alike, teachers, community leaders, activists — anyone who needs to take their training skills to the next level and wants to learn how training can be used more effectively.
2. Adventure-Based Learning. How to conduct hands-on activities to build group cohesion, explore conflict, examine leadership roles.
3. Creative Workshop Design. A 3-day workshop on how to design engaging, impactful workshops, classes, seminars and trainings.
4. Advanced Training of Trainers. A next-level rigorous training to deepen and broaden facilitation skills (for graduates of the Training for Social Action Trainers), with personal coaching, in-depth preparation for cross-cultural work (including international training), and experimenting with emergent design methodologies, to sequence activities for maximum impact.

Training for Change also offers free online access to many of its workshop designs, group exercises and other learning materials on its website: www.TrainingForChange.org

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