The Sense and Solidarity Initiative specializes in creating high-impact spaces, times, and resources for people to collectively discover the practical uses of radical theory and to theorize organizing practices for collective liberation.

We’re particularly interested in understanding the socially-shaped psychology behind social change.

We facilitate activists, organizers and educators coming together to ask difficult questions like:

• Why do people hold on to dangerous and destructive beliefs and how can we turn the tide?
• What techniques and approaches actually work when it comes to changing people’s hearts and minds, (and what ideas and practices do we need to abandon)?
• How can people’s movements do better in attracting and sustaining activists and organizers?
• How can grassroots movements strategize to make the best intervention for their capacity?

In our in-person workshops, online courses, engaging podcasts, and digital toolkits for activists, artists, organizers, thinkers, educators, makers and community-builders, we bring together a unique mix:

• The wisdom and best-practices of social movement organizers from around the world about what works (and doesn’t) when it comes to mobilizing at the grassroots
• The recent insights from the cognitive sciences about how minds change and where resistance to change comes from
• The treasure-chest of critical theory, a set of militant ideas crafted over generations to help us understand and stand up to power.