Our Work Pilot Programs Growing Impact

DEVELOPING COMPETENCIES

List of Knowledge Skills and Values
  • Group process and dynamics
    • Increasing skills in planning, preparing for and facilitating meetings, creating space for people to develop voice and agency
    • Becoming more skilled in motivating and preparing people to take on responsibilities, listen to and develop others, become facilitative leaders
    • Deepening use of reflective practice disciplines
  • Organization-building
    • Learning the fundamental concepts and techniques of building viable, sustainable, increasingly effective organizations
  • Strategic thinking and tactics in organizing
  • Popular education
    • Studying the history of popular education and the role of popular education in leadership development
  • Participatory research for action
    • Learning about the role and techniques of Participatory Action Research for leadership education and issue development
    • Learning about the role and techniques of Citizen Monitoring in educating and involving a community on public policy issues
    • Deepening skills in PAR and Citizen Monitoring, and connecting research with constituency learning and action
  • Negotiation and enforcement of agreements
  • Use of media, communications and technology to support organizing

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