How might we...
- Base Building: How might we improve our engagement with our members/base to build power?
- How might we create communities rooted in freedom and liberation for all people?
- How might we develop an organizing strategy rooted in a long arc, with the power to win a just and equitable city and state?
Hypothesis
If we stretch our mind forward 2 generations to our desired impact then new thoughts for the present time will emerge.
Design
Host 2 dinners in Nov 2019.
Helping prompt people to connect with their future self and then be able to share reflections and impacts with others and connect it to present action and decisions.
Develop documentation that can be used and built upon.
Metrics
- We spend time embodying our future selves for a portion of the dinner.
- People see and feel the strategic value now of doing this future thinking work. This as a necessity rather than a luxury.
- 6-8 people is ideal number.
- 1-2 people who are interested in helping design the 1.5 day meeting in December.
- It feels spacious, not planned in 5 minute increments.
- There is documentation that can be used and built upon including crowd sourced notes.
Learnings
1st month – be a critical thinker about purpose and outcomes and then think very opening about how to get there
Grounding/Anchoring conversation in recent experience of strikes and taking people out from there into two generations in.
Keep putting out the next steps, even if not sure on all the steps, and trusting that the answers will come. It doesn’t have to all be figured out.