Trainings

Learn the skills to organize, lead, and build power.

RAD NH trainings help people understand how power works, build organizing relationships, develop practical skills, and prepare to take meaningful responsibility in campaigns, teams, and public life.

Training is not separate from organizing. It prepares people to act, reflect, lead, and help others grow.

Why training matters

People become stronger organizers when learning is connected to real practice.

Trainings create shared language, political understanding, and practical tools. Their purpose is to help people participate more effectively, take on leadership, and support others into action.

Learning for action

We teach skills people can use immediately.

Participants practice conversations, storytelling, power analysis, facilitation, outreach, campaign strategy, and public leadership.

Trainings are strongest when participants have a clear opportunity to apply what they learned soon afterward.

01

Build confidence

Practice reduces uncertainty and helps people see themselves as capable participants and leaders.

02

Develop shared analysis

Participants connect lived experience to root causes, institutions, decision-makers, and power.

03

Strengthen teams

Teams work better when members share tools, expectations, language, and ways of making decisions.

04

Multiply leadership

People learn not only to perform a skill, but to support and train others in using it.

Core training curriculum

A practical foundation for organizing and leadership.

Offerings may change based on current campaigns, team development, and organizational priorities, but these modules form the core of RAD NH’s training pathway.

01

RAD NH Orientation

Learn our mission, values, organizing framework, structure, expectations, and pathways for participation.

02

Fundamentals of Organizing

Explore relationships, leadership, power, strategy, collective action, and the role of an organizer.

03

Conversations That Move People

Practice listening, curiosity, values, storytelling, agitation, and making meaningful asks.

04

Power Analysis

Identify decision-makers, organized opposition, allies, institutions, interests, and leverage.

05

Relational Organizing

Map relationships, make personal invitations, organize networks, and help others take action.

06

Canvass and Outreach

Prepare for voter and community contact, use scripts effectively, listen well, and follow up.

07

Story and Testimony

Connect lived experience to shared values, root causes, public demands, and collective action.

08

Direct Action and Campaigns

Understand demands, targets, escalation, tactics, turnout, risk, and disciplined public action.

09

Digital Organizing

Use email, social media, digital outreach, content, and online tools to support organizing goals.

Training topics are selected and scheduled in coordination with RAD NH’s current organizing strategy, campaigns, and leadership-development needs.

The learning pathway

Learn, practice, reflect, and lead.

A workshop can introduce a skill. Growth happens when people apply it, receive support, and take on greater responsibility over time.

01 · Learn

Understand the concept.

Explore organizing ideas, tools, examples, and the purpose behind a skill or practice.

02 · Practice

Try it in a supported setting.

Use role plays, exercises, planning tools, and guided feedback to build confidence.

03 · Apply

Use it in real organizing.

Take on a conversation, outreach shift, meeting role, campaign task, or leadership responsibility.

04 · Lead

Help others learn.

Co-facilitate, mentor, model the skill, give feedback, and create opportunities for others to practice.

The goal is not simply to complete trainings. It is to become more capable of organizing people and developing leadership.

Training connected to real roles

Skills become meaningful when people use them in shared work.

RAD NH helps participants connect training to current campaigns, organizing teams, outreach opportunities, public actions, and leadership roles.

From workshop to responsibility

Every training should point toward a practical next step.

An organizer or member leader can help participants identify where the skill is needed and how to practice it with support.

The next step may be small: making one call, inviting one person, sharing one story, or helping facilitate part of a meeting.

01

Outreach roles

Canvassing, phonebanking, relational outreach, event invitations, follow-up, and recruitment.

02

Team roles

Facilitation, turnout, storytelling, communications, research, digital support, and coordination.

03

Campaign roles

Power mapping, testimony, action planning, public narrative, target research, and tactical leadership.

04

Leadership roles

Mentoring, training others, leading teams, developing strategy, and creating pathways for new leaders.

Who trainings are for

There is a place to begin at every experience level.

Some participants are new to organizing. Others bring years of experience. Trainings are designed to help people build shared practice and identify a meaningful next step.

New participants

Learn the foundations.

Understand RAD NH, build confidence, meet other people, and identify a first opportunity to participate.

Active members

Strengthen practical skills.

Improve outreach, storytelling, facilitation, campaign work, and the ability to take responsibility.

Member leaders

Develop other people.

Practice coaching, mentoring, facilitation, training, strategy, and distributed team leadership.

We work to offer different participation formats and discuss accommodations related to technology, scheduling, transportation, language, disability, and other access needs.

Build your organizing skills

Take what you learn back into your community.

Join an upcoming training, connect with an organizer, or become a member to begin building the skills and relationships needed to lead.

Training offerings change throughout the year based on current campaigns, organizing-team development, and leadership needs.