Organizing
Focusing on the role of the leader of a community organizer, we read about both the possible pitfalls, but also of the successes that comes with it. The characteristics of the right leader seem to...
View ArticleCultivating a Culture
Reading Ostermans Overcoming Oligarchy and Sen’s Stir It Up really had me thinking about how different organizing and leadership looks based on individual personalities and dynamics. The description of...
View ArticleOrganizing: What’s the End Goal?
Osterman claims that oligarchical leadership structures can tend to lead to negative consequences that include loss of membership commitment, “becalming,” or goal displacement. He goes on to claim that...
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Last week we looked at “facilitators” and earlier there were “planners” (some are more like consultants) and in capacity building the “mediators”; this week we are asked to look into the role of...
View ArticleOrganizers and Leaders
I found the readings interesting to reflect upon, especially the piece about leadership among organizers and volunteer leaders. Based on my experiences, this division between organizer and leader was...
View ArticleCultivating Cultures
This week’s readings really drove home the power and importance of culture. By ‘culture,’ I mean the ways of seeing and understanding the world that shape our ways of being in the world. What I have...
View ArticleOrganizing
Focusing on the role of the leader of a community organizer, we read about both the possible pitfalls, but also of the successes that comes with it. The characteristics of the right leader seem to...
View ArticleCultivating a Culture
Reading Ostermans Overcoming Oligarchy and Sen’s Stir It Up really had me thinking about how different organizing and leadership looks based on individual personalities and dynamics. The description of...
View ArticleOrganizing: What’s the End Goal?
Osterman claims that oligarchical leadership structures can tend to lead to negative consequences that include loss of membership commitment, “becalming,” or goal displacement. He goes on to claim that...
View ArticleOrganizer and leader
Last week we looked at “facilitators” and earlier there were “planners” (some are more like consultants) and in capacity building the “mediators”; this week we are asked to look into the role of...
View ArticleCultivating a Culture
Reading Ostermans Overcoming Oligarchy and Sen’s Stir It Up really had me thinking about how different organizing and leadership looks based on individual personalities and dynamics. The description of...
View ArticleThe Community Planning – Organizing Collective Action for Social Change
The community planning approach brings us back to the first days of the concept of public participation in planning, and actually, the trends and the evolvement of community planning are a...
View ArticleOrganizer and leader
Last week we looked at “facilitators” and earlier there were “planners” (some are more like consultants) and in capacity building the “mediators”; this week we are asked to look into the role of...
View ArticleEven David Became a Monarch: The Slippery Slope of Successful Community...
Even David Became a Monarch: The Slippery Slope of Successful Community Organizing and Oligarchical Fiefdom Marshall Ganz’s articles on community organizing were highly informative and inspiring for...
View ArticleOrganizing
Focusing on the role of the leader of a community organizer, we read about both the possible pitfalls, but also of the successes that comes with it. The characteristics of the right leader seem to...
View ArticleCultivating a Culture
Reading Ostermans Overcoming Oligarchy and Sen’s Stir It Up really had me thinking about how different organizing and leadership looks based on individual personalities and dynamics. The description of...
View ArticleThe Community Planning – Organizing Collective Action for Social Change
The community planning approach brings us back to the first days of the concept of public participation in planning, and actually, the trends and the evolvement of community planning are a...
View ArticleOrganising roles and Narratives.
I really appreciated the multiple angles I got on different ways of doing community organising from the readings. In my experience all I had seen as community organising would fall under CBO-type...
View ArticleOrganizing
Focusing on the role of the leader of a community organizer, we read about both the possible pitfalls, but also of the successes that comes with it. The characteristics of the right leader seem to...
View ArticleOrganizer and leader
Last week we looked at “facilitators” and earlier there were “planners” (some are more like consultants) and in capacity building the “mediators”; this week we are asked to look into the role of...
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