3 Day Community Organizing Training

The Curriculum

Community Renewal's organizing training sessions typically include:

The Melian Debate
You’ll experience the 3000 year-old dilemma of Melian islanders as they are forced to confront Athenian domination of the Aegean Sea. Join the negotiations and experience how power works.

Public Dynamics
Learn the basics of having an effective and powerful public life by mastering that values triangle and the key concept of agitation.

Values and Self-interest
Reflect on where your values come from, the role values play in shaping who you are, and learn how faith-based organizers transform people by working through their own, and other people’s, moral centers.

One-on-Ones
Learn the communication skills of active and empathic listening that will uncover a person’s self-interests and build trusting relationships.

Spiritual Power and Transformation
Discuss spiritual power and its ability to work in concert with our values to transform us and the society we live in.

Organizing Dynamics
Become acquainted with and develop a functional understanding of key organizing concepts and terms.

Power and Power Analysis
Learn how to analyze an issue and use that analysis and the knowledge gained to shape a strategy.

The Analysis Session
Experience an organizing challenge and shape a response to it within a small group.

Buzz About Our Training

"I WAS CHALLENGED. I feel like I have tools to understand (or at least ask the questions to be able to) a situation and decide how to move forward TO DO SOMETHING."

"I was very pleased with the training and the trainers. It gave me a very real and practical perspective of organizing that I could us on my job…It really equips you with what you need to become an organizer."

"I would describe this training to others as an 'Organizers’ Bootcamp.'"

"I am very fortunate that my Executive Director decided to send me to this training...I had some ideas about how to organize, but I have learned so much. It really has clarified my intentions and what I say are my self-interests."

"The activities are engaging and challenging. The trainers are interesting and full of character. They deal with real life organizing situations…you will learn so much about building relationship in community organizations."

"I gained understanding of important concepts, was challenged to reflect on myself and my work, and worked with other people to apply what I learned."

Registration

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING TRAINING
focused on faith-based principles
January 28-30, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
332 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 500

The registration fee is $250 per person for the three-day workshop (no meals included). Each day runs from 9am to 5pm. You may register online by clicking here or you may download the registration form here and fax it to Alex Wiesendanger at 312.427.6130. There are a limited number of spaces for the training, which are filled on a first come, first served paid basis.

For more information or to reserve a place pending the receipt of your registration, please feel free to call or leave a message for Alex Wiesendanger at 312.427.4830, x3840.