Movement EcologyTraining
A shared analysis and the skills to act on it, in courses on social movement ecology, strategy and power. Our power analysis starts from hegemony: how the current order holds together and where it is cracking.
Building collective power across differences
We help social movements see the bigger picture, work together and focus on what matters most, turning fragmented energy into collective power. We do this through training, facilitation, accompaniment and mapping.
What we offer
We work with climate and social justice campaigns, unions, NGOs and grassroots groups across the UK, and connect groups that usually work apart. Most of what we do falls into four kinds of work.
Facilitation
For one organisation or a whole movement. We run strategy days, workshops and gatherings, and help groups across movements form alliances and coalitions built to last and to win.
Accompaniment
Support that stays with your organisation long term, mainly in strategy and organisational development. It builds on our training and facilitation; we shape the format with you and work as often and as deeply as you need.
Mapping
A shared picture of who is active in your movement, how they connect and where working together would pay off. We map with you, teach you to map and are building a digital tool with Common Knowledge.
We use a sliding scale, so unfunded groups can work with us too. See fees and how we work.
Our next three-day course on social movement ecology runs in November 2026.
Who we are
We are the Movement Ecology Collective. We’re based in London and south-west England.
Linda
Designs processes that meet people where they are, drawing on complexity science and popular education.
Wolfgang
Works on how groups come to act together, drawing on complexity science, philosophy and hegemony theory.
What is social movement ecology?
Social movement ecology sees a movement as an ecologist sees a habitat, with different groups playing different roles and diversity as a strength. Power comes from alliances that hold those differences together. It helps you
- see where your work fits in the bigger picture
- find who to work with, and stop working at cross purposes
- build the kind of power no single group can build alone
Read more on the blog: what movement ecology is and how it builds collective power.
Organisations we’ve worked with
Cooperation Hull
Our House
- UTAW
- Plan C
- Cooperation Town
- School of System Change
- New Organising Conference
Latest writing
Reflections from our work, and longer pieces on theory, political analysis and strategy.
Blog
All blog postsSocial movement ecology: how to build collective power across a fragmented Left
Why does the left keep failing to turn energy into power? Social movement ecology offers a different approach to movement building, collective action and organising across difference.
What is ecosystem facilitation?
How we facilitate for collective power: An outline of our response to being stuck in silos, differences and misunderstanding.
Articles
All articlesCollective agency
A post-Marxist approach to building collective power and political consciousness
Collective power through alternative models
A proposal for strategic priorities in the face of multi-level collapse