TOOLS FOR CHANGE
Community Organizing Skills Workshops
Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition is excited to offer a regular training workshop series to our members and anyone involved in the broader justice movement in Fairbanks! These learning sessions focus on skills needed to run effective teams and build strong campaigns designed to build people power and win real changes in our communities.
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PAST SESSIONS
De-escalation for protests and political action
We love seeing folks planning community events and actions, and we know that sometimes being public comes with conflict. This interactive training teaches skills to help reduce the intensity of conflicts during political actions - from tabling to rallies. We cover an introduction to the concept, how to deescalate yourself, and how to deescalate others so that your event or action can focus on your goals rather than on outside conflict.
Creative Tactics for Activists
Creative Tactics for Activists is a hands-on training designed to grow your practical skills in wheatpasting, spray paint stenciling, and poster making while diving into the principles of effective action arts. Whether you're new to activism or a seasoned organizer, this workshop will help you harness the power of street art to craft compelling messages, mobilize communities, and make change impossible to ignore!
What we teach:
-Wheatpasting basics: turning city walls into canvases for movement messaging.
-How to design and cut spray paint stencils for bold, repeatable protest art.
-Poster-making techniques that fuse creativity with effective action design.
-Key principles of action arts: why certain visuals stick and how to make yours count
How We Fight for Change & Win - Two Part Series
Part 1 - Organizing Your Community:
Basics of how to organize your community to build people power and win the changes we need! Despite challenging times, we have power as organizers to build community connection, find alignment on the issues that matter, and take action together. This first session in a two-part series introduces the core principles of grassroots organizing, explores the power of social movements, and equips you with practical tools to empower yourself and your community to create lasting impact.
Part 2 - Building People-Powered Campaigns:
How to plan a community-led grassroots campaign for change on the issues that matter! In this second session of the series, we dive deeper into the work of identifying an issue with your community, analyzing the power you have to influence it, and building an impactful strategy that will allow you to win.
Making Good Trouble: A Weekend of Non-violent Direct Action & Arts Training
“Making Good Trouble” is a collaborative effort with community partners for a weekend non-violent direct action workshop. Trainers from across movements share their knowledge and experiences in non-violent direct action, provide information on the philosophies of direct action, give tactics and tools to help attendees start or further develop their campaigns, and guide campaign and art development, leading to the positive change we want to see in our communities!
Press Tactics for Activists
At Press Tactics for Activists, we work on crafting messages that can be used with the news media, using data-driven messaging tips. We spend a good chunk of time practiced media spokesperson skills in small groups.
Strategic Storytelling Workshop
In session 2 of our Strategic Storytelling series, we’ll dove deeper into how we tell the story of our work in a way that moves people into understanding and ultimately action in support of our cause and learned tools to reframe existing narratives in a way that can shift public understanding of an issue.
In this training, we cover some of the data behind good messaging, how this data applies in Alaska, and how we can apply it in climate justice or other kinds of social justice work. We get into the nerdy side of messaging tactics and break down the data on how we can best tell the story of the issues we care about, and how to make the world we’re building irresistible.
Intro to Strategic Storytelling
In this training, attendees learn how to prepare themselves to bring new people into the movement by honing their outreach pitch. Recruiting others with a direct ask is both one of the hardest and most important skills for building up a community campaign. This workshop helps attendees refine their approach and script for outreach conversations, perfect for feeling comfortable with summer tabling or making phone calls. We cover the basic principles of movement basebuilding, strategies for effective recruitment, and a chance to practice writing and sharing your pitch.
Outreach & Recruitment
This training is all about the art of gathering and leading people in productive dialogue to accomplish shared goals. One of the most essential building blocks of social change is the ability to bring community members together to communicate and set goals for collective action. In this workshop, we have the opportunity to hone your skills for getting people to meetings and facilitating effective discussions. This training covers best practices for preparing, leading, and following up meetings as well as an opportunity to practice facilitation in small groups.
Gathering People & Leading Meetings