become less dependent on the economy to exist differently
Community Self-Reliance School is a ten week intensive, online program that supports people who are interested in creating their own community self-reliance projects as well as those who are already involved in community self-reliance and want to deepen their work. Those who are curious about CSR will use the components of Visionary Organizing to develop a roadmap and organizing plan for a community self-reliance project in their community. Others who are already active in CSR projects will use Visionary Organizing to develop a plan to deepen their work and make connections with other local community self-reliance projects. This program provides people with paths to meet their material and non-material needs in ways that make them less dependent on the capitalist economy by supporting them to create roadmaps for projects that meet material and non-material needs in community based ways.
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People with who are already practicing CSR and want to deepen their practice and/or their systemic understanding of it
People who are curious about CSR
Community Builders
People frustrated with the world, with protest, and want to do something but don’t know what actions to take
Network Weavers
New Economy practitioners
Spiritual Activists
People who want to practice CSR
Solutions-oriented people
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A roadmap for the creation of a community self-reliance project or a roadmap to deepen and accelerate already existing CSR projects including a vision, strategy, asset map, and next steps
A network of CSR practitioners to be in community with and learn from
An ability to tell your personal story in ways that support a strategy for your community self-reliance project
An understanding of Visionary Organizing and its six components as an approach to community transformation that equally emphasizes material and non-material needs and utilizes community self-reliance as a tactic
Skills to affirm the dignity of others and practice dignity affirmation as an organizing strategy
A systemic understanding of how and why community self-reliance can facilitate the emergence of a new economy and culture