Description: Organizers have achieved countless wins utilizing traditional organizing methods (such as the Alinsky Model), but if we dig into these approaches we can see that they are often rooted in the very oppressive structures that we are working to dismantle. 

This session (in 4 parts) takes participants through an evocative process which explores familiar narratives, campaigns, and organizing approaches to understand how some of our common organizing methods limit our ability to achieve transformational goals. These sessions also invite participants to explore the potential of transformative approaches to organizing to build power and take radically doable first steps to addressing all manner of injustice.

Purpose:

• To reflect on the ways we build power and begin to shift how we build campaigns from transactional and reactionary to those that are whole and built from a place of love. 

• To highlight false narratives that undermine our sense of power

• For participants to practice radical imagination in their leadership, knowing the transformed organizations and world we long for do not yet exist.

Outcomes:

• Participants acquire new knowledge about narrative making and traditional organizing

• Participants deepen their understanding of how internalized racist oppression shows up in our structures and campaigns

• Participants understand how to build power from a place of love

• Participants practice reclaiming their power to imagine and manifest thriving

• Participants find more places to move from purpose and choice. 

• Participants make commitments in the form of a personal goal and next step for creating their liberated zone (part of their leadership development plan)

Process: about 6 hours over 4 parts with 16 people

This is a series of workshop components designed to work together. The times listed below do not include breaks.

• Part 1: Intro to Building Power and Transformative Organizing (75 min)

• Part 2: Power from a Place of Love (75 min)

• Part 3: What does it look like to build power from love? (75 min)

• Part 4: Radical Imagination and Do-ability (120 min)

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