POLITIC DIFFERENTLY

Politic Differently: Visionary Organizing and Political Strategy is an exploration of Visionary Organizing and its relationship to other ways of organizing for social, community, economic, and political change. The assumptions of protest politics, electoral organizing, and visionary organizing are all rooted in different forms of power and embody strategies that can contradict with each other. This training teaches people to recognize these multiple forms/practices of power in generative relationships to each other rather than in competitive relationship. Teams will be able to more effectively organize multiple (and sometimes conflicting) groups within a community who might have different assumptions and different approaches to change.

    • Orgs working to affect community/social change who want to explore visionary organizing

    • Groups/orgs who are already practicing something similar to VO that want to deepen that practice

    • Orgs that want to explore multiple strategies/ kinds of power for social change

    • Skills & vision to practice visionary organizing, protest, and electoral politics as multiple parts of a single strategy

    • Skills to think relationally

    • Ability to identify different kinds of power and practice them when useful

    • A framework to understand alternative institutions in conjunction with already existing institutions

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