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.

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 .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.

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.

Draw a card in Spanish or English!

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.

Draw a card in Spanish or English!

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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