How might we...
- Base Building: How might we improve our engagement with our members/base to build power?
- How might we reflect on the fellowship's generative innovative learnings and integrate them for our efforts on mutual aid focusing on parents (and branches into community safety; ICE preparedness)?
Hypothesis
Closing will create collective and self recognition of accomplishments and fellow’s transformative experience and highlight future possibilities for leads and organizing fellows.
Design
- Abbie shares draft outline for two sessions with design leads from team, including pulling out key input questions and who might lead each section.
- Integrate input into design.
- Facilitate Sessions!
Metrics
Design towards
- Generative space for logging what we’ve done, but in the emergence space focus on what’s already come rather than try and generate totally new ideas.
- handful of these ideas that the fellows feel ownership from that enrich the tools the orgs have to carry into next year. (gather it up and push it forward)
- Could have a focused HMW question that draws on what they shared in the previous section to bring forward what they learned and how they would apply it to the current situation (whatever that may be). Both through Jan 20, but even beyond to next year.
- Grace + simplicity
- Reflection and Celebration of Organizers, closure
Acknowledge statewide ballot initiative loss and impacts and also winning big in the city
Learnings
- It’s challenging to be generative, reflective, and celebratory all in one event.
- People really wanted to celebrate and not return to a discussion about the crises. It was important to recognize that shift in conditions and create a moment to exhale together.
- Goodie Bags, drawing, highlighting specific leaders all helped make this more than a usual zoom celebration.
- Deep listening from design team, follow up with STP support and integration of design team feedback worked well.
Decisions
- At least two of the groups want to continue fellowship in 2021.
- Some ideas from this design and from the meeting drawings will be built upon in 2021.