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How to organise relationally during a pandemic

Session Three: Organising in a Pandemic

_{This training series is produced by ChangeMakers Podcast and Tipping Point.}

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Todays agenda

Organising relationally

Break out groups

Relational meetings

What is a relational meeting
Self-interest
Fishbowl
Break out groups

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Organising relationally

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Social movement mobilising

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Relational Power

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Relational power

Relationships precede action

Build power before you use power

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Break out groups

Round of introductions.

Debrief your own experience. What stuck out in that conversation? Would your social change benefit from a stronger focus on relationship building?

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What is self-interest?

Important private and public relationships
Organisations that are important to them (what works / is challenging in them)
What motivates/moves them - Excites or angers them
Hobbies/Habits/What they read, eat, do for fun
Foundational stories – defining moments/events/crises
Legacy (What is it that you want to be remembered for? What will be your legacy? How will you walk through life?)

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Relational Meetings

Acknowledge the Industrial Areas Foundation for developing this practice, and recognise Sydney Alliance and Queensland Community Alliance as key practitioners in Australia

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Self-Interest

Selfless

Selfish

To be among

If not about yourself, who will be, if only about yourself who are you, if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

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What is a relational meeting?

30 - 45 min meeting
One to one, face to face (zoom to zoom)

They:

Build trust across diversity (include researcher - subject relationships)
Identify interests/passions/pressures through sharing of stories
Both people share stories (but a 70:30 talk - initiator listens more)
Strong questions - focus on why
Agitational - stimulate reflection

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In a Fishbowl

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Break out group 2

How did that go? What did you see? Learn?

In what ways could this skill help the work that you do?

Place notes in the chat.

By the end - find someone in the group to do a relational meeting.

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Reflections

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Do a relational meeting.

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