The 5-Step Activism Path Workbook
The 5-Step Activism Path Workbook is designed to help you apply the ideas in The Happy Activist to your life.
Paperback • eBook
Who This Workbook Is For
The 5-Step Activism Path Workbook is designed for people who want inventories, reflections, and planning tools to guide them.
New Activists
Get step by step guidance as you create a path that will make a difference for your cause.
Experienced Activists
A guide to refocus, reconnect with your strengths, and stay motivated.
Teachers and Leaders
Educators and organizers who want practical tools for helping others create change.
Activism Should be Motivating and Impactful
Many people enter activism feeling passionate and hopeful, only to become overwhelmed by pressure, conflict, and the feeling that they must do everything at once.
The 5-Step Activism Path offers a different approach.
Instead of focusing on guilt, exhaustion, or constant urgency, the book helps readers identify their strengths, focus their efforts, and build sustainable ways to create meaningful change over time.
What's Inside The Workbook?
The Happy Activist explains the 5-Step Activism Path. The 5-Step Activism Path Workbook supports the path with over 60 tools designed to guide you from passion to action. These tools include worksheets, reflections, checklists, and templates to guide your unique journey to sustainable activism.
- Discover more about yourself with surveys and questionnaires.
- Use templates and worksheets to plan your activism.
- Reflect on how you want to change the world.
- Create your action plan.
Examples of Included Tools
Step 1: Your Cause
Quiz: What Kind of Activist Are You?
Life Vision Worksheet
Reflection: Comparing Your Ideal and Current Worlds
Step 2: Your Gifts
Skills and Experiences Questionnaire
Worksheet: Your Oridinary Superpower
Your Privilege: Why it Matters
Step 3: Your Method
Worksheet: Your Cause and Activism Methods
Worksheet: Your Motivation and Favorite Methods
Reflection: Going Solo vs Joining Up
Step 4: Your Impact
Worksheet: Evaluate Your Opportunities For Impact
Worksheet: Your Activism Elevator Speech
Interview Template: For Activists Joining Up: Your DIscussion With a Leader From the Organization
Step 5: Your Plan
Worksheet: Set Activism Goals
Worksheet: How Your Body Reacts to Stress
Checklist: Your Coping Strategies
What People are Saying
Preview a Sample Workbook Tool
See how the workbook turns the 5-Step Activism Path into reflection prompts, inventories, and planning tools you can use for your own cause.
Download one of the most popular tools in the Workbook: the Activist Skills & Experiences Questionnaire.
The Happy Activist
For the fullest experience, use the workbook alongside The Happy Activist. The book explains the research-based framework, while the workbook gives you the space to apply the process to your own cause, strengths, and goals.
The Teacher's Guide
For middle and high school teachers and movement and community leaders. This Common Core-Aligned guide provides lesson plans, activities, and projects to inspire and empower the next generation of activists.
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Dr. Terri L. Lyon
Dr. Terri L. Lyon is an industrial/organizational psychologist, professor, author, and activist focused on helping people create meaningful change in sustainable ways.
She combines psychological research, practical strategies, and real-world activism experience to help readers stay motivated, focused, and engaged without burnout.
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Reader’s Digest • NAMI • Walden University
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