How might we...
- Base Building: How might we improve our engagement with our members/base to build power?
- How do we prepare existing leaders to take leadership in the diverse organization that we are trying to build?
- How might we activate and engage existing leaders in our target communities?
- How might we build a base of 2500 activists whose identities include a majority of those most oppressed by our systems and history to lead this permanent ideological shift?
- How might we build a high-quality list of Minnesotans to get to our purpose AND activate that list?
- How might we organize to a critical tipping point-3.5% of Minnesotans or 215000-to make a permanent shift in Minnesota's ideology?
Hypothesis
Creating a design team for the Community Train the Trainers Program and focusing on relationship building will increase shared ownership of it.
Design
DESIGN:
- Ask leadership assembly people to join the Design Team for the Community Train the Trainers Program
- Invite people into the development of this program.
- What does ask look like? (how of invitations, given COVID life, email today could start it there and decide how to follow up and make it fun…video with kids….)
Metrics
GOAL | MEASURE
- Have 2-5 conversations with leadership assembly resulting from ask.
- Feel strengthened trust and relationships with 2-3 people in the leadership assembly. Know I have trust if we wrestle together versus “having conversations”.
- Wrestling convos( Raising tensions )- sign of trust and bloom. (this is what we need of each other, have to show our bellies, can’t pretend it is all fine and we all have it figured out)
- 1 as collective
- 1 with Sabrina individually.
- Wrestling convos( Raising tensions )- sign of trust and bloom. (this is what we need of each other, have to show our bellies, can’t pretend it is all fine and we all have it figured out)
- One member of the design team recruited someone else as trainer. (sign of ownership), investing in the role.
- Sharing progress in slack along way.
- Two organizers who would be good for Community Trainer program – decide on if including them on the design team.
Learnings
2 weeks post George Floyd’s murder, felt in an emobodied way, the only thing that will carry us through this is relationships. This is the only thing that matters.
- As an organization, we were able to keep moving and bring what we had to the table. Elianne’s leadership reminded those of who were not Black to not turn off our brains to follow Black leadership in this moment but to bring what we have to offer to the table and discern what we need to ask for permission to do and what actions of support we can just do.
- Had “wrestling conversations” with individuals including from orgs who have been rivals and groups of people. This mindset of leaning into tension and conflict allowed for more possibilities and a bigger we.
- People who didn’t have a relationship or organizational relationship – what is our capacity to hold those relationships collectively now?