Each module offers a condensed, highly actionable set of recommendations to prepare you for action. Here are some of the specific trainings you can access:
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- Deescalation & Bystander Intervention: Learn more about nonviolent discipline, interpersonal safety, and rapid response to harassment or hostile situations.
- Planning for Redlines: Scenario planning and rapid-response preparation for democratic emergencies.
- Developing Your Personal Narrative: Craft and refine your personal story to communicate your values, mobilize others, and connect your lived experience to the broader struggle for justice and democracy.
- Songs for Resistance: Discover the history and power of movement songs and learn how collective singing can build solidarity, courage, and spiritual strength in moments of resistance.
- Reimagining Interfaith: Blends bridge-building, community trust, and strategic activism, showing how multifaith networks strengthen civic belonging, interrupt polarization, and model democratic values
Resisting authoritarianism takes many forms. But whatever way we’re engaging right now, training prepares us for the fights ahead. We want to ground ourselves in the deep roots of our diverse faith traditions, while also understanding the political and legal environments we’re operating in. Whether it’s your first time engaging in civil resistance or you’ve spent your entire lifetime on the protest line, there's something here for you.
Dr. Maria J. Stephan – featured in The New Yorker and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as one of the nation’s top experts on civil resistance – shared this with us about the importance of faith communities getting trained up:
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Faith communities have historically been at the forefront of movements for freedom, justice, and democracy in the US and around the world. Trainings, like those held in churches and meeting houses during the U.S. Civil Rights movement and during the people power movement in the Philippines, have played a critical role in preparing people of faith to challenge injustices using their unique skills and strengths, while building relationships and spiritual solidarity. Today, training tens of thousands of people of faith across the United States in skills of nonviolent organizing and action is key to dismantling authoritarianism and building Beloved Community.
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