What to do when we “lose”
We do our best to win campaigns, but what do we do when we lose? How do we recover, find footing and carry on? Some important lessons can be drawn […]
Month: March 2017
How to prepare for international trips (like the “worst conflict in the world”)
I’ve trained in about two dozen different countries, most of them on multiple occasions. Trainers at Training for Change are increasingly training internationally. The last year other trainers have led […]
Review of Strategy and Soul
Reading Daniel Hunter’s Strategy & Soul is almost as good as taking one of his Training for Change workshops. It’s a very experiential read, immersing you in the story of […]
Was the Walker recall effort the wrong fight?
A few months after last year’s Wisconsin uprising at the state capitol, I stood in front of a packed Quaker meeting house overflowing with labor leaders, religious leaders and radical […]
How Presence Stopped a Riot
It was during the second presidential inauguration of George Bush. We were a group of over 5,000 “protestors” named Turn Your Back on Bush. When Bush’s motorcade would go by […]
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: lessons in time of empire
More and more people see the United States as an empire in decline. It is over-stretching itself in Iraq and Afghanistan, increasing its trade debt astronomically, and unable to even […]