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Multnomah County Cohort

Nov 18, 2020

The Power of Story to

Move Collective Change

Land & Housing Coalition

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RENAME YOURSELF

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COMMUNITY OF FAITH, NAME

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EXAMPLES

St Philip, Maria�Ainsworth UCC, Judi

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Ancestral Land Acknowledgment

We gather together on holy, living land, Earth, which supports and sustains us. We acknowledge that this region is the ancestral and unceded territory of the original peoples of the Multnomah, Wasco, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Cowlitz, Willamette-Tumwater and Cascades bands of Chinookan peoples, the Tualatin Band of Kalapuya and many other Tribes who made their homes along the Columbia (Wimahl) and Willamette (Whilamut) river.

They lived and thrived in profound, complex, and interdependent relationship with the land and other beings, long before white colonial settlement.

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Ancestral Land Acknowledgment

We recognize we are here because of systemic policies of genocide, relocation and assimilation that was forced upon them. Today we acknowledge the region’s diverse, vibrant Native communities who are still connected to this land; Indigenous peoples, 70,000 strong, with more than 280 tribes with at least 18 unique languages, both local and distant.

We extend our deepest gratitude to our siblings and elders, past and present, who have stewarded this land and who carry on Tribal traditions for present and future generations.

Let’s take a moment of silence in reverence and gratitude.

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Agenda

  • Welcome & Mission
  • Spiritual Grounding
  • Power of Public Story
  • Journaling with Public Story Worksheet
  • Sacred Encounter of One-to-Ones
  • Harvest
  • Next Steps
  • Evaluation
  • Team Time

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Leaven Community Land & Housing Coalition

Mission

An interfaith collective, growing neighborhood capacity to stabilize community so that all people in Oregon may come home.

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Spiritual Grounding

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What has moved you…

  • About the stories you have been listening to?
  • Your congregation’s land story/genealogy?
  • Your one-to-one’s around housing pressures?

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How do you want to respond?

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Spiritual Grounding

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Ritual �Bless the deepest parts of our stories – the pain points, the parts of us that yearn for things to be different, for life to be safe and flourish!

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Spiritual Grounding

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Our stories have the ability to touch one another and move us into this change that protects and makes more room for life! Our stories can build housing and bring people home!

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THE POWER OF PUBLIC STORY

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Power of Public Story

The Story of SELF

(3-4 sentences) �

  • What is your story and the story of those you love that you want to tell related to housing?

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  • What is your generational housing story – pressures/threats and opportunities/support?

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  • Where do these pressures come from?�

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Power of Public Story

The Story of US�(3-4 sentences)�

  • How does your story and/or your family’s story connect with the stories of those around you?
  • Who is the “we/us” you are connecting with?
  • Who is the “us” you are trying to create through this story?
  • What are the values and life we share?�

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Power of Public Story

The Story of Now�(3-4 sentences)�

  • Now what (mindful urgency!)?
  • How does the US change the story?
  • What is the action you are inviting other into together?
  • What is at stake (if we don’t/if we do)?
  • What becomes possible if we act together?

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Power of Public Story

Journal with Public Story Worksheet�

Make a copy of the following worksheet and prepare your public housing story.��https://docs.google.com/document/d/17TIdv3tBBdSsc1xmSJpy67M6Y5NTizflw5HoCAZrwP0/edit?usp=sharing�

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Sacred Encounter

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Listening that draws us out of ourselves into something bigger.

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Opportunities to listen…

  • Conversations (1 to 1’s, small & large groups)
  • Nature
  • Readings��

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Sacred Encounter of One-to-One’s

Public Housing Story

One person shares their story as they have prepared it on the worksheet. The other person listens and reflects back…

  • What was most powerful?
        • What touched them?
        • What could make it more powerful?

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Then switch! Each person gets to share and each person gets to listen and offer feedback. �.

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Reflection & Harvest

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  • Have a couple of people share who feel excited and ready

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  • Have people offer feedback.

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  • What was it like for people to share their stories?

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Next Steps

Homework

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  1. Work on crafting your congregation’s land story together (maybe 2 people work together on this).

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  • Each person craft your housing stories using the worksheet.

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  • Schedule your next Core Team gathering. A guiding agenda will be sent.

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Next Cohort Gathering

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Wednesday

December 16, 2020

6:30PM

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We will learn how to build collective capacity through shared stories in virtual house meetings among your congregation and neighbors.

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Evaluation���

+ What made this gathering meaningful for you?

Where did you notice gaps?

Team Time���

  1. Schedule your next core team gathering.
  2. Commit to contacting team members not present.
  3. Assign homework as needed.

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