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Welcome to the Seed Coalition Resource Library. Our organization has developed and curated resources that support the engaged work of our coalition members on their campuses and in their communities. Take a look at what we have to offer, including “plug and play” civic agency workshops, relevant research publications, the Social Change Wheel, and more.

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three men sitting while using laptops and watching man beside whiteboard
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: Participants will engage in reflection and analysis of power, history, message, relationships, and resources related to their chosen social issue. They will then be more prepared to select an impactful action.
man in blue long sleeve shirt holding smartphone
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: Participants will understand that we all have both strengths and areas for improvement. Treating others with a focus on their assets is not blindly optimistic, but rather an effective organizing strategy. Everything that has ever been accomplished has been done by imperfect people who chose to build on their strengths.
Brown Wooden Bridge Near Forest
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: This workshop is designed for participants to firmly place themselves into another mode of thinking as well as examine perceptions and stereotypes of their own identity. They will recognize the human thought processes behind deeply held beliefs.
two women standing in front of white dry erase board
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: Participants will understand that an elevator speech helps introduce an individual and the work with which they are involved. The aim is for the speech to be captivating enough to lead to further conversation, resulting in new connections, relationships, support, and possibly collaboration.
aerial view photography of group of people walking on gray and white pedestrian lane
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: Participants will understand that each person has many intersecting identities, conferring different degrees of privilege and oppression in different social contexts. Because of this, individuals often share, emphasize or deemphasize certain identities in different spaces. This can perpetuate pain, isolation, and oppression. It can also prevent organizations, institutions, and communities from benefiting from the […]
A Man in Black Suit Jacket Talking to a Group of People Sitting with Him
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: This workshop is designed to make the process of providing feedback an intentional and positive experience. Giving or receiving feedback can be an emotional, tension ridden process. The aim is to provide a framework and structure so that those conversations are easier and the relationships between colleagues sustained.
woman placing sticky notes on wall
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: Participants will understand multiple models for decision making. They will understand that the process for making the decision is just as important as the decision itself. Each model will include the group in different ways, and will emphasize different parts of the process.
eyeglasses with gray frames on the top of notebook
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: Participants will understand how we use research in our daily lives, understand core attributes of various types of knowledge and the political legitimacy assigned to each type, identify structural inequities in research that maintain certain power relationships, understand basic principles of research justice, understand how we can strategically control knowledge flow in society and […]
two men talking
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: To get things done together, we have to be able to work with people who see the world differently than we do. This requires really engaging our hearts to find common ground and shared self-interest, and hear each others’ stories and pain, not just their worldviews.
A Woman Holding a Soft Clay
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: Participants will understand that communities can either be seen as passive or active in data collection processes. Participatory methods involve participants as active agents. Participatory processes help create shared power in a group.
students writing on large post-it note collaboratively
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: Participants will examine power structures and circles of influence around an issue, then explore how those structures interact to either advance or hinder social change. They will practice identifying whose support is likely and necessary to advance a project, where they can build allies, and where opposition may lie. It will also help participants […]
person walking on beach during daytime
Created by Seed Coalition
Type: Workshop
Description: Participants will understand that the story of self communicates the key formative experiences that shaped you and “the values that are calling you to act.” A story of self is built around one or two key “choice points,” moments of large consequence in your life when you faced a challenge of some kind, made […]

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