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Broad based relational organizing Building community capacity one person at a time Presented by Tom Mosgaller 2013 JCEP Conference Significant events and perceptive eyes This can be the worst of times… …because the old questions don’t fit the new reality Significant events and perceptive eyes This can be the best of times… …if we look out the window and anticipate what is coming into view Definition of a leader: Leaders are people who create a shared vision powerful enough to lift people out of their petty preoccupations and focus them on things worthy of their efforts. John Gardner- Founder National Civic League Exercise 1 What do you do? What is your story? Parker Palmer Healing the Heart of Democracy • • • • • All in it together Welcoming the “other” Hold the tension Find your voice Build community capacity Diffusion of Innovation (Rogers) Critical elements of effective diffusion of an idea: • • • • • Relative advantage Compatibility Complexity Observability Trialability Exercise 2—Community Capacity Building Purpose: Scope: 3 2 1 The Geometry Lesson In the beginning Then… Community Institution 3 Sectors Private Public Civic Civic—formal/informal associations Neighborhoods Volunteer associations Co-ops PTOs Church Groups Fraternities Observations on American Democracy 1. Identify our problems 2. Generate solutions 3. Do it! The Wisconsin Idea The Extension agents as catalyst, connector, capacity builder Key Responsibility Healthy require: Reorganizing Organizing Disorganizing Secret weapon of capacity building Relationships How 1 on 1 Hold the tension Mobilize Organize Transactional Relational Cause Development Fixes Long-term Capacity 1 on 1 • Listening—actively • Questioning—curiously • Sharing stories—meaningfully Exercise 3— 1-1 relationship building Universals of relational organizing • • • • • Intentional Mutual Require care Grounded in trust and forged in action Built before they are needed The organizing cycle Evaluation Large Actions Research Actions 1-1 conversations House meetings P3ower—the ability to act P1 = Create/produce our own future P2 = Collaboration: associations, partners, networks P3 = Institutions do what we can't do alone 3 critical questions What can we do ourselves? What can we do with a little help? What do we need others to do for us? So…. what does this have to do with community capacity building? Extension agents as: • Catalysts • Connectors • Capacity builders So What Now What "Thus in all ways, I will transmit my community greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to me.“ -from the Athenian Oath Pericles, Mayor of Athens, Greece over 2000 years ago Thank you! Questions are welcomed