The Collective Power Playbook

Moments when we felt we were most able to contribute to collective power

• During Times of Recognition
• Getting awards for projects, journalism
• Family crisis turmoil
• Scholarships - job applications that allowed them to apply
• Student organisign, felt vast buy-in to decentralising power
  • Was easy to leverage mechanisms and engage individually.
  • Was catalysed by injustice.
  • Sense of power of the moment
• Process of converting to a co-op
• Position of leadership, need tools and skills to organise
• Watching others become leaders, to grow
  • temp new hire ->
• Partnering in facilitation
• Being prepared, knowing your audience
• Diff methodologies, interdisciplinary way of learning and engagement
• Holding space for conversation

When you convene people, what are you trying to accomplish

• Power to accomplish a task
  • Single task, unity is power
• Finding community, affinity, who else is in the space
• Want to participate in power
• Companionship

What are they trying to accomplish

• Inspiration/Spark peoples interest and executer on that
• Set their own deadlines, compromist
• Be motivated
• To Share knowledge
• Best practices
• Validation, for contribuiont to their goals
• Building trust, transparency
• Willing to compromise
• Group is stronger with more possibility to get further, no matter what the subject
• Better together than alone
• Mutual benefit, mutual learning
• Trying to be part of a group and find connection
• They are trying to learn

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