Active Listening
The foundational listening exercise in its many dressings: in pairs, one person speaks about something real while the listener gives full attention — no interrupting, no advisin…
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Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders
openaligned IDG relationpractice-based4 steps, 17 activities
Free learning-by-doing pocket guide (97 pp) for youth-led social change: four steps with 17 activities spanning self-awareness, collaboration, and design skills — from "Know Yourself" to "Make it Sustainable".
unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Step_Up_A_Pocket_Guide_to_Social_Change_for_Young_Leaders.pdf — UNFPA with Lead For Impact & Prezi (2021)
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Tools from this source (17)
Biopsychosocial Model
Maps how external influences and internal factors together shape the day-to-day self — body, mind and social context taken as one system rather than three competing explanations…
Breakdowns to Breakthroughs
Treats a breakdown in a project or team as expected rather than exceptional — the guide states plainly that there will be breakdowns — and works the method for turning one into…
Cultural Awareness
Builds the ability to communicate across national, ethnic, organisational and generational cultures — the guide treats all four as culture, not just the first two. Participants…
Iceberg Model
The systems-thinking staple: start from a visible event and dig down through the layers beneath it — patterns and trends, systemic structures, and the mental models and paradigm…
Idea Generation
A structured creative round that alternates deliberately between divergent and convergent thinking — generate widely without judging, then narrow — so that a change initiative s…
Integrity, Accountability, Responsibility
Separates three words usually used interchangeably, and asks what it takes to embody each as a leader and instil them in a team. The guide places it in the chapter on making cha…
Operational Strategies
Looks at what makes a team's success last — the support systems, agreements and structures behind it — rather than at the initiative itself. The guide's closing activity, and th…
Overwhelm versus Overload
Distinguishes overload — too much to do, a scheduling problem — from overwhelm, which is a state one is in and cannot schedule away. Participants learn to tell which they are in…
Public Narrative (Self / Us / Now)
Marshall Ganz's leadership storytelling craft: build a Story of Self (a choice point that shows why you are called), a Story of Us (shared values and experience of the community…
Results Chain
Plans an initiative as a chain from activities through outputs and outcomes to impact, and uses it to track progress rather than to predict. The guide explicitly ties it back to…
Social Diffusion
How new ideas actually spread through a social system: not to everyone at once, but from a small group inclined to adopt early, outward. Participants use the pattern to plan how…
Social Identity
Surfaces the implicit assumptions driving your actions and responses, and how they assemble into a social identity — age, life context, the groups you belong to and the ones you…
Stakeholder Mapping
Identifies who has to be engaged for a change initiative to succeed, sorts them by interest and influence, and turns that into a strategy for building and managing each relation…
Team Dynamics
Reads a team against Tuckman's five stages of group development — forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning — so that friction is recognised as a stage rather than a fa…
Value Clarification
From a printed list of roughly fifty values, pick the ten you are most drawn to without analysing why, then cut to three in five minutes on instinct alone. The guide's framing i…
Vision Creation
Translates passion, values and intended action into one coherent personal vision — the guide insists it be clear and detailed enough that someone else could picture it. Comes af…
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