Activate Labs unlocks the creativity and innovation of people-powered social movements by building community, facilitating co-design and activating collective action.

Our training and facilitation approach is based on People-Powered Design™. It combines behavioral science, peacebuilding, participatory Action Research, Social Action and Human-Centered Design. It is our belief authentic learning happens by doing and doing happens when power is shifted so it can be shared. People-Powered Design™ uses experiential and participatory cutting edge tools, processes and methodologies to build community, co-design and strategically plan collective action.

Principles:

• centering the experience of those directly impacted by violence and oppression - because the ones who can name the world can change it

• We designing for the margins - in so doing we design for the whole

• our trajectory: head > heart > hands > feet

• we are most powerful at our intersections

• we will always choose curious empathy and hope… even in the darkness

• radical inclusion in systems thinking is intersectional and interdependent

• we learn by doing, playing and showing up - we are participatory and experiential