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Broad based relational organizing Building community capacity one person at a time

Broad based relational organizing Building community capacity one person at a time. Presented by Tom Mosgaller 2013 JCEP Conference. Significant events and perceptive eyes. This can be the worst of times… …because the old questions don’t fit the new reality.

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Broad based relational organizing Building community capacity one person at a time

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  1. Broad based relational organizingBuilding community capacity one person at a time Presented by Tom Mosgaller 2013 JCEP Conference

  2. Significant events and perceptive eyes This can be the worst of times… …because the old questions don’t fit the new reality

  3. Significant events and perceptive eyes This can be the best of times… …if we look out the window and anticipate what is coming into view

  4. Definition of a leader: Leaders are people who create a shared vision powerful enough to lift people out of their petty preoccupations and focus them on things worthy of their efforts. John Gardner- Founder National Civic League

  5. Exercise 1 What do you do? What is your story?

  6. Parker PalmerHealing the Heart of Democracy • All in it together • Welcoming the “other” • Hold the tension • Find your voice • Build community capacity

  7. Diffusion of Innovation (Rogers)

  8. Critical elements of effective diffusion of an idea: • Relative advantage • Compatibility • Complexity • Observability • Trialability

  9. Exercise 2—Community Capacity Building Purpose: Scope: 3 2 1

  10. The Geometry Lesson In the beginning

  11. Then…

  12. Community

  13. Institution

  14. 3 Sectors Public Private Civic

  15. Civic—formal/informal associations Neighborhoods Co-ops Volunteer associations PTOs Church Groups Fraternities

  16. Observations on American Democracy • Identify our problems • Generate solutions • Do it!

  17. The Wisconsin IdeaThe Extension agents as catalyst, connector, capacity builder

  18. Key Responsibility

  19. Healthy require:

  20. Secret weapon of capacity building Relationships

  21. How 1 on 1

  22. Hold the tension

  23. 1 on 1 • Listening—actively • Questioning—curiously • Sharing stories—meaningfully

  24. Exercise 3— 1-1 relationship building

  25. Universals of relational organizing • Intentional • Mutual • Require care • Grounded in trust and forged in action • Built before they are needed

  26. The organizing cycle

  27. P3ower—the ability to act

  28. 3 critical questions What can we do ourselves? What can we do with a little help? What do we need others to do for us?

  29. So…. what does this have to do with community capacity building? Extension agents as: • Catalysts • Connectors • Capacity builders

  30. So What

  31. Now What

  32. "Thus in all ways, I will transmit my community greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to me.“ -from the Athenian Oath Pericles, Mayor of Athens, Greece over 2000 years ago

  33. Thank you!Questions are welcomed

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