The BOLD Curriculum is designed for pro-democracy facilitators, organizers, bridge builders, and activists who are working across difference in complex, fragmented and highly polarized environments.
Drawing on the concept of reparative resistance and the framework of “Block, Bridge, Build,” BOLD equips people with the skills, tools, and mindsets needed to carry out the difficult work of democratic renewal, working with others who approach the work from different angles. The bigger and more diverse the pro-democracy movement is—including a diversity of theories of change and tactics — the more resilient it becomes.
Long-view, transformative change requires the ability to stay present in uncertainty, hold tension and multiple truths, work across different theories of change from multiple perspectives, and find ways to imagine shared futures. BOLD gives organizers, thought leaders, facilitators, and others the concepts, knowledge, and tools to do this: the slow, complex and critical work of broad-based organizing for our shared democratic future.
BOLD covers the following topics:
Cultivating Capabilities for Working Across Difference in Fraught Times
Applying a Block, Bridge, and Build Framework in Practice
Understanding Social Change Ecology and Roles
Building Leaderful Movements
Narrative Engagement Across Difference
Creating a “Bigger We”: Movement Story Building
Envisioning Just, Inclusive Democratic Futures
Block includes confrontation and resistance to harm; Bridge includes forming and strengthening relationships across divides; and Build includes constructing alternative, inclusive and resilient futures.
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