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Access

  • Okay not to participate in polls
  • Live transcription link in chat, on Twitter, YouTube
  • I will read what is on my slides, some of what comes in through polls and chat
  • Okay not to look at screen
  • Take breaks as needed, this is being recorded and slides and poll results will be available after, too

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Agenda

  • Polls assessing recruitment needs
  • Why we need a lot more people doing mutual aid
  • Getting people to join and stay
  • Practicing accountable leadership

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Polls!

  • Links in chat
  • How big is your group?
  • Do you need more people?
  • What’s hard about not having enough people?

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WE NEED TO GET BIGGER!!

  • Conditions worsening
  • Groups of all sizes, but MORE OF THEM, more people participating and skilling up
  • Work more sustainable when there are enough people doing it

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In the Chat:

  • What made you first join movement work?
  • What made you deepen your engagement beyond a first march or other symbolic action into joining a group or becoming consistently involved in something?
  • What helped you stay in?

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Polls (links in chat)

  • What prevents people from first getting into movement work?
  • What makes people never go deeper, or go deeper but then quit?

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Obstacles to Joining, Deepening, Staying

  • Can’t find the work
  • Never heard of this kind of work, don’t know about movements
  • Unfriendly reception
  • Hard to understand how to get more involved
  • Toxic group culture–turned off, burned out
  • Frustration, grief, exhaustion from work being under-peopled

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What helps people join, deepen and stay?

  • Welcoming group culture
    • In the chat: How do we create that? What does that look and feel like? What are fun, hot, irresistible ways of recruiting people that you’ve seen in action?

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What helps people join, deepen and stay?

  • Putting people to work! People want to feel like they are doing something about what they care about.
    • In the chat: How do we do that? How do you get people going on tasks they care about?

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What helps people join, deepen and stay?

  • A chance to say what we’re pissed about or scared of in a group.
    • In the chat: How do we make that space to share the outrage and desire? What makes it satisfying, inspiring and energizing for participants?

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Our Groups Can Meet Our Social Needs

  • Dignity
  • Belonging & Connection
  • Safety
  • Creativity

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Not a “Cause,” a Life in Resistance

  • Link to chart in chat
  • How do we move people from initial interest in something they are fired up about to a life dedicated to radical transformation that includes deep solidarity and support for or engagement in bold tactics?

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Other Things We Can Do to

Keep People In the Work

  • Transparent decision making
  • Orientations for new members
    • In the chat: What content could go in an orientation?
  • Setting clear expectations and giving feedback
  • Make the work replicable, don’t build an empire

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Leadership Qualities for Mutuality

  • Link to chart in chat
  • How do we create groups that cultivate these qualities in participants? How do we unlearn dominance behaviors?