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Organizing Training Roadmap
Start with an Introduction workshop, then any of the Base workshops. Afterwards, grow your mastery through the Advance workshops.
Introduction to Organizing
First time here? Start your journey with the Democracy Teams Initiative with an introduction workshop.
Base Workshops
The first five workshops that introduce the organizing leadership practices for creating strong and well-structured democracy teams.
Advance Workshops
Advance your knowledge and ability in team leadership, public narrative, strategy, mobilizing, and coaching with the next seven workshops in the series.
Public Narrative
Using storytelling to create the emotional conditions that enable people to respond to challenges together purposefully.
Upcoming Events
What’s on?
See the schedule of all upcoming workshops.
Mon 8 Dec 2025
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM (2 hours)
Start your journey here, with an introduction to the organizing theory underpinning the Marshall Ganz / Leading Change Network curriculum and an orientation to our training program. This workshop is a prerequisite for all other courses. (Registration closes 1 hr before start time.)
Tue 9 Dec 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (2 hours)
Start your journey here, with an introduction to the organizing theory underpinning the Marshall Ganz / Leading Change Network curriculum and an orientation to our training program. This workshop is a prerequisite for all other courses. (Registration closes 1 hr before start time.)
Wed 10 Dec 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (2 hours)
Start your journey here, with an introduction to the organizing theory underpinning the Marshall Ganz / Leading Change Network curriculum and an orientation to our training program. This workshop is a prerequisite for all other courses. (Registration closes 1 hr before start time.)
Thu 11 Dec 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (2 hours)
How will we turn the resources our people have into the power we need to win the change we want? (Registration closes 72 hours before workshop start.)
Thu 11 Dec 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (2 hours)
Work backwards from your campaign's strategic goal to sequence tactics and plan a campaign timeline.
Thu 11 Dec 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (2 hours)
Complete your campaign strategy development with an organization structure to succeed and ways to measure tactical and strategic effectiveness as you progress.
Thu 11 Dec 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (2 hours)
The Story of Now describes an urgent choice faced by the “us” whom you hope to mobilize to act: a challenging vision of what will happen if it does not act, a hopeful vision of what could be if it does act, and a call to commit to the action required. In this way a story of now makes the bridge from story – why we should act – to strategy – how we can act effectively.
Thu 11 Dec 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (2 hours)
Public leaders face the challenge of enabling others to “get” the values that move them to lead, establishing ground for trust, empathy, and understanding. Without this, people will infer our motivations or tell our story for us, often in very counterproductive ways. Learn how to tell your Story of Self and lead from firm ground. (Registration closes 72 hours before workshop starts.)
Thu 11 Dec 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (2 hours)
A story of self tells people who you are and why you are called to do the work that you are doing. The goal is for them to “get you”, to connect with you. Since organizing is about building power with others for shared action, your public narrative also needs to tell a story of the values shared by those whom you hope to move to collective action. The test of a story of us is whether or not they “get” their connection with each other.