Hosting a Book Club: Toolkit & Registration

This winter, Indivisibles are coming together in local groups and as a national organization for a book club on Anand Giridharadas’s book The Persuaders.

If you’ve been working with Indivisible or other movement spaces for a while, maybe you’ve felt the need for more tools and skills to message and communicate effectively to a range of people in your community. After hearing this desire over time from Indivisibles in the Powering Progress campaign and beyond, we’ve created a 2024 training series to do just that! And to kick things off, we’re hosting a book club focused on skillful communication with the folks we often think of as “persuadables” - folks who are receptive to progressive policies, but often susceptible to right-wing messaging (particularly racialized dog-whistle framing) that can pull them away from progressive support. Anand Giridharadas’s book The Persuaders brings readers into the work of activists and organizers across the country who aim to bring more people over to the progressive side without watering down what we’re working for or sliding to the center. Giridharadas makes the case for creating more onramps into the work by focusing on common goals. He provides guidance on finding a way to heal and change our fracturing country.

This toolkit makes hosting a bookclub event with your group easy! Join us in reading this amazing book and co-creating persuasive power. Then, we’ll continue building and applying persuasion and other communication skills as we move into 2024!