Tools & Resources

Story Detours are simple instructions meant to help in moving creative strategic thinking off our well-worn tracks. Having trouble with your strategy? Feel like you’ve been telling the same story for too long, without enough impact? Draw a Detour card when you’re stuck crafting a story-based strategy, and follow the instructions to experiment and give your imagination a different route to take. Also available as an online tool.

Available in English & Spanish.

This two-page document provides an overview of story-based strategy, walking you through the steps of analysis and strategic work that will sharpen the impact of your narrative interventions!

Available in Spanish, English, and Traditional Chinese.

How to use story-based strategy to win campaigns, build movements, and change the world.

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The six-page PDF includes instructions, worksheet, and an example to get you started mapping the movies, shows, books and entertainment your audiences consume, and how to match stories with the kinds of actions you want your audience to take. Developed in collaboration with our friends at New Media Mentors.

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Staring at a blank page can be overwhelming, even for experienced change-makers planning a creative action. Get the creativity flowing by getting out of analysis mode and just prototyping an intervention, using the Picture This! deck, by yourself or with a group.

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This three-page document includes two pages of No Burnout Bingo plus a third blank page for creating your own. Download it now and keep yourself and your friends sustainably involved in building movements for collective liberation.

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Print this two-page document and distribute to friends, comrades and coworkers to help assess sustainability in your community and support each other in movement work!

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BRB! is a deck of cards, each with a simple prompt for self care and regenerative activities that contribute to your own sustainability in social justice work. Draw a card, and take a little time to step away, and take action that fills the well, so you can "be right back" for yourself and the movement.

Available in English & Spanish.

This 4-page PDF includes instructions on using #the4thBox in meetings, discussions and workshops. If we want outcomes of equality, equity and liberation in our lives and work, then we need to empower learners to explore, vision and pursue these goals themselves, and THAT’s where #the4thbox comes in.

Available in both Spanish and English.

This .ZIP contains a high-resolution .PSD file for editing in Photoshop or GIMP. Get started creating your own take on #the4thBox today!

Download Photoshop File in English or Spanish.

Use these high-res images in presentations and workshop materials.

Available in Spanish & English.

Print this 4 page PDF in color for workshops and activities. Participants can cut the pieces out – adding any original artwork they create – and combine the pieces into their own vision for what goes in #the4thbox.

Available in English & Spanish.

Explore what’s beyond Equality and Equity. Play The 4th Box Simulation Game and begin your journey in discovering possible answers to, "How did we get here?" and "How can we move beyond this?

FREE to download & play.
Play in Spanish or English.

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This 90-minute self paced workshop will introduce you to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in theory and use using Story-based Strategy. Participants will be provided with a practical framework for understanding issues of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in their work and how using a Story-based Strategy can assist in both assessment and planning.

Available in Spanish & English.

The fun way to get everyone involved in resisting U.S. fascism & building power to defeat it. 4 bingo cards available in Spanish, Portuguese, English, & Chinese. Each PDF comes with a bonus 5th blank card for creating your own! Built in collaboration with our friends at Bay Rising & Design Action.

Available in Spanish, Portuguese, English & Chinese

Story Detours are simple instructions meant to help in moving creative strategic thinking off our well-worn tracks and towards innovation! This is an online tool, there is also a printable version here.

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Each Picture This! card indicates three constraints for you to follow in designing an action or intervention. Get the creativity flowing and get out of analysis mode. Picture This! is also available for purchase as a physical deck of cards.

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Game Changer is a fun, funny, and fast card game about and for direct action organizing that engages players' radical imagination. Each round, one player is the Decider, and the other players must try to convince them that their protest tactic is the best one for the situation. But watch out for the Game Changer cards, which - well - change the game! It only takes a minute or two to learn. Made with our friends at Tesa Collective.

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Mirar una pagina en blanco puede ser abrumador hasta para una persona con experiencia diseñando acciones creativas. Intenta salir del modo de analisis creando un prototipo de una intervención y conecta con tu creatividad, usa la baraja de cartas ¡Imagina Esto!

Disponible en inglés o español.

¡Vuelvo enseguida! 52 Intervenciones para el trabajo de movimiento regenerativo y sostenible.

Disponible en inglés o español.

Los Desvíos de la Historia son instrucciones simples destinadas a ayudar a mover el pensamiento estratégico creativo fuera de lo que ya acostumbramos. Roba una carta de Desvío cuando estés atrapado en la elaboración de una Estrategia basada en Historias, y sigue las instrucciones para experimentar y darle a tu imaginación un camino diferente.

Disponible en inglés o español.

Este documento de dos páginas proporciona una descripción general de la estrategia basada en historias, y lo guía a través de los pasos del análisis y el trabajo estratégico que agudizará el impacto de sus intervenciones narrativas.

Disponible en español, inglés y chino tradicional.

用故事展開的策略（SBS）是 一種方法，讓我們把言語和行 為看作整體中的兩個部分，是 非常“好的訊息傳播”。 不妨用五個故事元素，先來分 析對手的故事再寫下來我們要 說的故事。

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