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RISING VOICES

Asian American Youth Leadership & Civic Engagement Fellowship

Organizing Workshop: 1:1 Foundational Skills

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Community Agreements

  1. Respect for each other, let people finish speaking
  2. We all come with different experiences
  3. Confidentiality
  4. One diva, one mic
  5. No one knows everything; together we know a lot
  6. Move up, move up
  7. We can't be articulate all the time
  8. Be aware of time
  9. Embrace curiosity
  10. Acknowledge the difference between intent and impact
  11. Expect and accept a lack of closure
  12. Bring your whole self to the meeting; let folks know where you’re at
  13. Don’t yuck my yum
  14. Listen to understand not to find your next comment/sentence

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Intros

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Sunyoung Strait (they/them)

  • 2nd generation, Korean American, queer, non binary
  • Cancer/year of the snake/INFJ
  • ENFJ / touch and words of affirmation
  • Hobbies: All things pop culture nerdy - comic books, video games, anime, hipster nerd (I was into these nerdy things WAY before everyone else), current K-Pop/K-hip hop stan
  • Organizing Director for API PA

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Your Turn! Introductions…

  1. Name & pronouns
  2. Location
  3. 1 fun summer thing you’re into right now!

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Session Objectives:

At the end of this session, fellows will be able to:

  1. Understand the foundational skills needed prior to having 1:1s
  2. Have begun working on their situational awareness, and connecting to others!

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Agenda:

  1. Follow up from Session 1
  2. Situational awareness exercise
  3. The monkey business illusion
  4. Genuinely connecting with others
  5. Reflections & action steps

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Session 1 Follow Up

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Life Map Pair Share

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  • Share your life map with your partner for 5 min, then switch!

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Situational Awareness

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5 mins: write what each word means to you on a YELLOW STICKY NOTE on each title of the slides

In organizing, we need to be able to observe a lot of things about the environment we’re organizing in, and adjust our plan based on what’s happening.

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Debrief:

  • What did you take away from this exercise?
  • Did you notice how people saw different things?
  • What does that tell you?

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The Monkey Business Illusion

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Debrief:

  • What did you take away from this exercise?
  • How is this video connected to situational awareness?

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Genuinely Connecting With Others

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Genuinely Connecting With Others

Sometimes we need to build a connection with someone quickly.

Pro tip: Don’t make it weird!

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Exercise

Ask questions until you know - Why did the person bring this item?

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Share a brief connection to it!

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Debrief:

  • How was the exercise?
  • Was it easy or hard to:
    1. Ask questions of others
    2. Reveal things about yourself

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Q & A

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Reminder

  • Don’t forget - you should be working on your ‘zine, it’s due next week, 7/19!

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5 mins: write what each word means to you on a YELLOW STICKY NOTE on each title of the slides

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Movement Voices: A Youth-Led Speaker Series

Within Asian American movement building and activist spaces, the process of embodying and acting out the wisdom transferred by movement elders (and “yelders”) across generations is a crucial practice. Passing down activist history and practice is important for the success of the movement for collective liberation and the archival of our shared history for those who will come after us.

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Thus, Movement Voices: A Youth-Led Speaker Series intends to build a space for remembering and learning. Through the memories and wisdom passed down by our speakers as they discuss their activist journeys, we hope the process of remembering will lead to learning. We hope folx learn from each speaker’s how and why of organizing: why did they organize and how? In doing so, we hope folx can also take time to delve into their why and how of organizing.

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Date: July 22, 2022 / July 29, 2022 / August 5, 2022

Time: 12:00-1:30pm (EST)

Speaker: Dr. Calvin Cheung-Miaw / Soya Jung / Pam Tau Lee

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Expectations:

  • 2 youth fellows to research about each week’s speaker and prepare questions (Luna and Thang will support)
  • Every fellow must invite 3-5 people to register for the event
  • “Arrive” at least 30 minutes before the event to do a run-through, meet the speaker, and troubleshoot

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5 mins: write what each word means to you on a YELLOW STICKY NOTE on each title of the slides