Trust The People Workshops
Trust the People is a movement of community builders - open to everyone - sharing deliberative democratic tools to support local communities in dealing with global crises.
We are building a real democracy from the bottom up.
To find out more or sign up to the next course, go to www.trustthepeople.earth
1. Personal Processing
Personal processing is about taking time to connect with ourselves – to reflect on who we are, ho...
Overview
Why Personal Processing? Before working to transform our local communities and connecting with o...
Deep Reflection: Understanding Ourselves and Understanding Others
The activities outlined below have all been selected to help initiate a process of self-reflectio...
What Happens In Our Brain When Our Views Are Challenged?
Everyone has had a conversation with someone who shares distinctly different views and has left i...
Power & Privilege
"Without community, there is no liberation.” Audre Lorde Introduction What & why? The con...
Reflecting on Identity Privilege
If you’ve moved in any social justice circles, or even if you haven’t, you’ve probably come acros...
Personal Visioning
The visioning process helps you to connect with your strengths, your values and what it is you wa...
Building Courage
Courage is a sense of inner strength that enables you to persevere, despite fear or difficulty; i...
Understanding Emotions
Having emotions is one of the things that makes us human, although the extent to which people adm...
Active Listening
What is Active Listening? Active listening is the process of concentrating on listening to what ...
2. Group Support
Group support is focused on enabling people to work with others in a supportive and empathetic wa...
Overview
What is group support? This module is focused on enabling people to work with others in a suppor...
Personal Reflections on Working in Teams
Working with others can be a magical, transformative and inspiring experience; it can help us rea...
Getting to Know One Another
If your group is new and you’re going to spend some weeks or longer working together, then spend ...
Tips on How to Give and Receive Feedback
Being able to give and to receive feedback is important when working with others, when building r...
A Quick Guide to Holding Effective Meetings
Running meetings that keep to time, enable constructive discussion and give everyone an opportuni...
Building Healthy & Empowered Teams
Introduction This workshop and guide were developed because “there's no such thing as a structur...
How to deal with conflict in your groups
Every group and relationship experiences conflict, regardless of whether we are trying to bring a...
Holding Emotional Spaces
It is important to welcome emotions in your group. Reaching out to people in your communities and...
Reflecting on and Tending Grief
Within the ancient tradition of Yoga, it is taught that humans carry trauma buried under deep lay...
Listening Circles: Supporting Grief Online
The challenges of our current times are revealing an uncomfortable and ever-present companion muc...
Making a Strong Working Group
Aim: to make life easier and less stressful for coordinators. For working groups to grow and do m...
3. Engaging Communities
Engaging communities involves putting energy into understanding who is in your area, what their n...
Overview
Why do we need to focus on engaging Communities like this? Building stronger social ties with ou...
Mapping Out Your Community
Before we engage in community work, it can be really useful to think about our relationships and ...
Engaging Diverse Communities
SOLIDARITY GUIDELINES Solidarity is a collaboration where both parties are working towards share...
How to Deal with Conflict when Engaging with Strangers
Use this guide to understand both what you can do to avoid situations of conflict arising and wha...
Door-to-door Listening
Why Door-to-door Listening? Door-to-door listening can be an incredibly powerful community-build...
Practical Steps To Community Engagement During Lockdown
This guide offers ideas on how to both reach out to community members during lockdown, and on how...
Resources for Reaching Out to Others in Your Community
Deep Hanging Out The point of this guide is to frame an attitude to engaging different communiti...
Games to Connect
Taken from Science of People article What is an Icebreaker? An icebreaker is an activity, event...
4. Community Assemblies
Community Assemblies are a structured and democratic way for a group of people to share ideas and...
Overview
Why use community assemblies? Assemblies build community by enabling communication and collabora...
Community Assembly Manual
How to Organise and Run Assemblies in Your Community ‘Whatever you can do, or dream you can, beg...
Rebels’ User Guide For Zoom
New Zoom account on a computer/laptop: Visit the Zoom Web Page at: Zoom: Video Conferencing, W...
Online Community Assembly
Important Things to Consider Before you attempt to facilitate a People’s Assembly, please make s...
In Person Community People's Assembly
Important Things to Consider Before you attempt to facilitate a People’s Assembly, please make s...
Reflecting on Your Community Assembly
You’ve had your first community assembly, well done! You’re beginning an extraordinary journey wi...
5. Community Organising
Community organising is about finding ways to put your ideas into action. It is about learning fr...
Overview
Why community organising? Community organising is what enables communities to put their ideas in...
A Vision for a New Democracy in The UK
Here’s a vision for what could emerge from our decentralised community democracy building project...
Intro to Flatpack Democracy or How to Reclaim Your Council
Intro Around the UK, something beautiful is happening: a radically new way of doing local politi...
More Resourses
For an immensely practical guide on how to reclaim your council, read Flatpack Democracy, writt...
Community Organising for the Corona Crisis
How to start cooperatives and mutual aid projects Please share widely. Short link for this doc....
Online Learning Resources for Community Organising
There are countless amazing organisations doing community organising work, providing imaginative ...
Useful Community Organisations and Initiatives
Use this resource library to learn about the different kinds of community centred organisations a...