How can you effectively communicate power analysis findings and recommendations?

2 Use visual aids

Power analysis can involve complex and abstract concepts, such as power relations, power holders, power resources, power dynamics, and power strategies. To make your findings and recommendations more accessible and engaging, you can use visual aids, such as diagrams, charts, maps, or icons, to illustrate and simplify your main points. Visual aids can help you show the relationships and patterns of power in a clear and concise way, and highlight the opportunities and challenges for your organizing campaign. You can also use colors, shapes, and symbols to emphasize the key elements and messages of your power analysis.

3 Tell stories

Another way to communicate power analysis findings and recommendations is to tell stories that connect your data and analysis to real-life experiences and emotions. Stories can help you humanize the issue you are organizing around, and show how power affects the lives and aspirations of the people involved. Stories can also inspire and mobilize your audience to take action, by showing them the possibilities and consequences of different power scenarios. You can use stories from your own community, or from other communities that have faced similar power struggles and achieved positive outcomes.

4 Invite feedback

Communication is a two-way process, and power analysis is not a static or definitive product. You should invite feedback from your audience on your power analysis findings and recommendations, and be open to learning from their perspectives and insights. Feedback can help you validate, refine, or challenge your power analysis assumptions and conclusions, and identify new or emerging power factors and actors. Feedback can also help you build trust and rapport with your audience, and foster a sense of ownership and participation in your organizing campaign.

5 Adapt and update

Power analysis is not a one-off activity, but a continuous and dynamic practice. You should adapt and update your power analysis findings and recommendations as the context and conditions change, and as new information and evidence emerge. You should also communicate these changes and updates to your relevant audiences, and explain how they affect your organizing goals and strategies. By adapting and updating your power analysis, you can ensure that your organizing campaign is responsive and relevant to the current power realities and opportunities.

6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?