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Some Fundamental Recurring Tasks Of Long Term Change Agents, Activists And Advocates

This article explores the fundamental recurring tasks of long-term change agents, activists, and advocates, including evolving one's vision and values, pursuing consensus, taking a stand, engaging in persuasion, cultivating leadership, building alliances, and sustaining commitment through personal and shared renewal.

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Some Fundamental Recurring Tasks Of Long Term Change Agents, Activists And Advocates

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  1. Some Fundamental Recurring Tasks Of Long Term Change Agents, Activists And Advocates Michael. J. Kendrick PhD Kendrick Consulting Intl www.kendrickconsulting.org kendrickconsult@attglobal.net Use Only With Permission Of The Author

  2. Some Fundamental Recurring Tasks Of Long Term Change Agents, Activists And Advocates • To Regularly Clarify And Evolve One’s Vision And Values In Regards To The Merit Of What Is Being Sought By Way Of Benefitting People’s Lives • To Repeatedly Pursue Questions Of Vision, Values And Priorities With Others Such That A Committed Consensus Might Emerge That Will Be The Basis For Collective Action

  3. Some Fundamental Recurring Tasks Of Long Term Change Agents, Activists And Advocates • Recognize And Accept That, At Many Points, One Will Need To Take A Stand And Draw A Line In The Sand If One Is To Be Decisive On Crucial Issues Of Substance • Recognize And Accept That Authentic Change Cannot Be Imposed Upon Others And As A Consequence It Will Be Endlessly Necessary That One Engage In Persuasion, Education, Consciousness Raising And Dialogue Oriented To Gaining Informed Consent For Change

  4. Some Fundamental Recurring Tasks Of Long Term Change Agents, Activists And Advocates • Given The Centrality Of Leadership As A Necessary Catalyst For Change And The Endless Insufficiency Of Available Leadership It Will Always Be Necessary To Attract, Cultivate And Nourish The Type Of Leadership Needed • Change Is A Collective And Cumulative Outcome And It Is Much More Readily Achieved When One Can Act In Concert With Many Allies, As These Alliances Ensure The Support That Will Be Needed To Bring About Change

  5. Some Fundamental Recurring Tasks Of Long Term Change Agents, Activists And Advocates • Most Changes Of Any Significance Are Typically Long Term In Nature And Therefore Cannot Be Achieved Except Through Long Term, Committed And Persevering People Acting Together For As Long As It Takes • It Is In Our Human Nature That In Order to Sustain Long Term Demanding Commitments In Life We Will need To Invest Continuously In A Wide Variety Of Relevant Forms Of Personal And Shared Renewal.

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