The Carnegie UK Trust has published ‘Power: A Practical Guide for Facilitating Change’. The handbook has been developed from a piece of work that was undertaken by the Carnegie UK Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, exploring the link between analysing power and achieving social change. The work centred on developing an understanding of how those who have traditionally been regarded as having the least power in society can make things happen for themselves through understanding the power they do have, and using it to influence change.

 

The handbook is for people, within organisations, networks or within community groups, who want to explore power in relation to achieving change in the interests of communities they are working with. Designed primarily for those who want to explore issues of power over a sustained period of time through workshops, one to one mentoring, and self-reflection, it may also be used by those who wish to start with an introduction to power analysis through stand-alone workshops.