The Snowflake model is a method for distributing leadership. It encourages spreading leadership across a movement so that many people with local knowledge and networks can grow into leadership positions and amplify a movement’s power and reach.
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Movements seldom win by overpowering the opposition; they win by shifting support out from under it. Use a spectrum-of-allies analysis to identify the social groups that are affected by your issue, and locate those groups along a spectrum, from active opposition to active allies, so you can focus your efforts on shifting those groups closer to your position.
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The Perception Box is a tool to help you analyse how groups around an issue perceive themselves and each other. Crafting tailored messaging will increase the likelihood of changing people’s positions - and hopefully pull them in your direction.
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https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/perception-box
The Pillars of Power is a power analysis tool used to identify the institutions and individuals that support the issues you are working to undermine. It can be used to identify where to target your efforts to make the foundations of an oppressive structure or system fail.
This video has been developed using content from Beautiful Trouble’s Toolbox, an interconnected web of the key strategies and tactics that have inspired people-powered victories & upended the status quo.
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https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/pillars-of-power
Gideon Rosenblatt’s Engagement Pyramid is a model that can help with thinking strategically about entry points and varying levels of commitment of movement members.
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https://commonslibrary.org/engagement-pyramid/
The video is an introduction to the Beautiful Trouble Toolbox, its elements, and explains how to navigate through it and use the tools provided.
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