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Pillars of Support

Format
workshop
Runtime range
45–75 min · 5–20 participants

When a small group faces long, unified, seemingly impossible odds, the instinct is to fight on every front at once — which rarely works. This workshop teaches Pillars of Support: a framework for prioritizing, simplifying, and focusing effort where it actually matters.

Built from two historical case studies nearly 90 years apart — Philadelphia labor strikes and the Montgomery Bus Boycott — that used the same underlying framework to build support for their cause while undermining support for their opposition. Participants leave with a structure they can apply to their own high-stakes, low-resource fights.

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