Doing Democracy- Bill Moyer's Movement Action Plan

I did a workshop based on Bill Moyer's Movement Action Plan at the Youth Environmental Sustainability conference at the University of North Carolina, Asheville on Sunday, November 2nd.

You can find a wikipedia article on the late Bill Moyer (who is NOT the PBS guy, thought they share a lot in common) at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moyer

His book is called Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements
By Bill Moyer, JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley and Steve Soifer It is published by New Society Press
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3694

It costs $17 and you can buy used copies for $6, including shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Democracy-Bill-Moyer/dp/0865714185/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225734407&sr=8-1

The one minute overview is at
wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_action_plan
but you are much better off reading the free 14 page summary at

http://nonviolence.org.au/downloads/practical_strategist.pdf
Since giving ghe workshop, I have discovered a short compliation of excellent articles at
http://nonviolence.org.au/planning.html

If you'd like to see a video of Bill talking (his last talk, in fact) visit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17iITob04t4

I think you'll get more out of the talk AFTER reading the book or overview--- it's more of an advanced talk than an intro.

In the course of the workshop, I mentioned two other works that talk about phases groups or individuals go through.

The first was Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's stages of grieving, detailed in her work
On Death and Dying

You can get a quick overview at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model

The second was the "innovation of diffusions" which was first developed by Everett M. Rodgers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
but much better explained by Geoffrey Moore in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm