Community, frameworks and tools
Good Dissent came out of a series of 2020 workshops on developing tools to enable positive change in organisations. Rather than thinking of personal resilience as skill to survive institutional failings, the use of communal dissent to find small ways of creating ripples of both connection and change amongst people.
Now, in 2025, dissent seems a good idea to talk about again. What it is and how to do it.
Dissent starts in being together
The main reason to hold workshops now is not to lecture people about what to do. There are many better people to ask than me and many better online resources for that. However, what I can do is hold a space to be together.
Community is the power of dissent. It is the thing that organisations try to stop. It is the thing that authoritarians fear most.
So come along to the workshop just to be with other people and talk about creating ripples of dissent thru more conversations, more people and more community.
2 for 1 tickets
As community is important, whenever this workshop is run that any ticket purchased is usable by two people.
Bring a friend, a colleague, or neighbour along.
Workshops need content to have meaning
Being together is not enough tho. People seek to do things, to share tools and ideas.
So the workhop has 3 parts to hold a structure for conversations. We will spend about an hour on each part with time to talk and share as we go.
People
- Resilience and rebellions in community
- Finding community
- Creating ripples
Mindset
- Recognising the problems of conformity and Normal
- The traps of common knowledge and common sense
Tools/Methods
- Good Dissent and Bad Dissent
- Methods of dissent
- Tools of sabotage
The workshop uses audio podcasts to share some of the content to maximise the time being present togather online.
Workshop Dates
I am offering Zoom workshops if there is enough demand. Let me know if you are interested.
Contact
If you have any questions then please email me a.somerville@acuity.design.