Resources

Explore resources to help you learn, reflect, and take action. From recommended learning opportunities to books, films, and community conversations, our resources offer ways to deepen your understanding and keep the conversations going.

Recommended Learning

We've gathered programs, tools, and learning opportunities we believe can help individuals and communities build practical skills and deepen their capacity for meaningful change.

Mental Health First Aid

An 8-hour, evidence-based public education program that teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges. Similar to physical first aid, it gives you a 5-step action plan to offer initial support. All of our staff members are MHFA trained.

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

A coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations who build people power for everyone across Massachusetts. LUCE has trainings, a hotline, and a list of resources. TAB has collaborated with LUCE on active bystandership and immigration harm.

Through Story Starters, families and schools gain the tools to have open, age-appropriate conversations about race and cultures, and support the development of inclusive values in young children. Training Active Bystanders works with students in grades 3-12, and we recommend Story Starters for our even younger students.

Story Starters

Loretta Ross - Calling In

Loretta Ross's approach to "calling in" uses connection, curiosity, and conversation to address harm and navigate difficult conversations. Calling in keeps growth, connection, and accountability at the center of conflict engagement. All of our staff members have participated in her workshops, and recommend her framework as an accessible conflict engagement tool.

Eradicate Hate

Eradicate Hate is a nonpartisan nonprofit that brings people together from across sectors and around the world to forge practical solutions to prevent all forms of hate-fueled violence. Rooted in the aftermath of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, Eradicate Hate turns expertise and lived experience into action through the annual Global Summit and year-round programs to create safer communities.

Charter for Compassion

The Charter for Compassion promotes empathy, peace, social justice, environmental sustainability, and intercultural understanding. By encouraging compassionate action, they aim to create communities where individuals can connect, collaborate, and support each other.

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding

Karuna Center works with communities affected by conflict to bridge deep divides, foster dialogue and reconciliation, and build more peaceful and resilient communities.

Spark Kindness empowers people to build kinder, more connected, and welcoming communities, with a focus on kindness, justice, belonging, and well-being. We recommend their free programs and resources as practical tools for creating more inclusive communities.

Spark Kindness

Watch. Read. Gather.

Learn together, one topic at a time.

Every three months, we explore a shared topic through something to watch, something to read, and a gathering to bring people together for conversation and reflection. Each selection is designed to spark curiosity, broaden perspectives, and connect learning to community action.

August

A Class Divided - PBS Frontline

The landmark PBS Frontline documentary that revisits Jane Elliott's "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" classroom exercise. The documentary offers a powerful and, at times, uncomfortable look at how quickly differences can become divisions, how group norms influence behavior, and how easily people can remain silent in the face of harm.

September

Why We Act: Turning Bystanders into Moral Rebels

Why do good people so often do nothing when a seemingly small action could make a big difference? A pioneering social psychologist explains why moral courage is so rare - and reveals how it can be triggered or trained.

October

Gather: Thursday, October 29th,

7-8:30pm EST

Join us as we discuss what we learned in A Class Divided and Why We Act. This months topic is The Bystander Effect.

Other Recommendations

The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits That Will Set You Free, Melissa Urban
Calling In: How to Start Making Change With Those You'd Rather Cancel, Loretta J. Ross
Creating the Intercultural Field: Legacies from the Pioneers, Sandra M. Fowler & Daniel C. Yalowitz