meet needs DIFFERENTLY
Meet Needs Differently | Visionary Organizing & Community Self-Reliance (CSR) for Community Groups is a training for community based groups and organizations that want to explore how people in community with others can meet their material and non material needs in ways that make them less dependent on the currently existing economy. Groups curious about CSR will use the components of Visionary Organizing to develop a roadmap and organizing plan for a community organizing project in their community. Groups already active in CSR projects will use Visionary Organizing to develop a plan to deepen their work and make connections with other local community self-reliance projects. Meet Needs Differently equips whole organizations with the framework of Community Self Reliance (including but not limited to historical understanding, language, practices/tactics, case studies, mentorship, etc) as a means to equally emphasize their material and non-material needs and therefore Existing Differently.
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Community based groups and organizations interested in community based creative power
Solutions-oriented community groups
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A roadmap for the creation of a community self-reliance project or a roadmap to deepen and accelerate already existing CSR projects including a vision, strategy, asset map, and next steps
An understanding of Visionary Organizing and its six components as an approach to community transformation that equally emphasizes material and non-material needs and utilizes community self-reliance as a tactic
Skills to affirm the dignity of others and practice dignity affirmation as an organizing strategy
A systemic understanding of how and why community self-reliance can facilitate the emergence of a new economy and culture