building

This reflective activity encourages participants to think about their priorities and make some quick decisions about them.  It's an active exercise where participants vote with their feet and is good for closing out a workshop, or conversely, for starting out.

 This activity is a wonderful opportunity for participants to share and learn from fellow participants about particular groups and subgroups that we all belong to.  The activity promotes active listening and alliance-building.

This is a great starter activity for new groups in which participants converse with half of other group members, finishing statements read to them by the facilitator.  Questions can be tailored to be superficial in nature or to address a series of diversity issues.

This workshop is designed for Unitarian Universalist congregations, but could be adapted for any group as an introduction to thinking about basebuilding, leadership development, and one-on-ones.

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Goals of Organizing Training

Who: Training to be used for new organizers, for members of community groups, refresher courses in community organizing, and wherever understanding community can be useful to leadership development.

Objectives:

Community Assessment, Agenda Setting, and Choice of Broad Strategies

Contains information about how to assess community needs and resources (e.g. conducting listening sessions, analyzing problems) how to get issues on the public agenda (e.g., gaining public support), and how to choose broad strategies to promote community health and development (e.g., building coalitions).