Digging For Roots: Creating Change Through Personal Conversations
February 4, 2006, Seattle WA. A workshop on creating change through one-on-one conversations.
Saturday, February 4, 2006
9am to 3pm
St. Joseph Parish Center Room
732 18th Avenue
E, Seattle, WA (map)
FROM THE ALLIANCE THAT BROUGHT YOU GEORGE LAKOFF
About this Workshop
We are living in an extremely divided political landscape; can we find a way to develop alliance with people who hold different political and religious views? How do we break through stereotypes of ourselves and others? How do we find common ground so that we can work together for the common good? This workshop will give you the tools to engage people who think differently from you and find a way to work with them to impact change in our community.
You will learn how to guide one-to-one relational meetings, understand self interest as a way to move people to action, gain a perspective of yourself as public and private person, and begin to craft your story as a way of connecting with others to work for the common good.
Workshop facilitators
Joe Chrastil is Lead Organizer for the Sound Alliance www.soundorganizing.org, an affiliate of the Northwest Industrial Areas Foundation*. Joe led efforts to build two IAF affiliated organizations, the Spokane Alliance and the Citizens Alliance of Central Washington, before moving to western Washington. He began his community organizing career in 1979 and has worked on a wide range of issues including farm/rural, immigration, health care, education, energy, housing, transportation, and jobs. He has a BA in Political Science from Carleton College where Paul Wellstone served as his advisor and mentor.
Keisha Krumm is an Organizer with Sound Alliance. She has over 5 years of organizing experience with congregations, schools, unions and community-based organizations. She has a Masters of Divinity in Christian Community Development from the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary.
*The leaders and organizers of the Industrial Areas Foundation build organizations whose primary purpose is power - the ability to act - and whose chief produce is equitable social change. The IAF is non-ideological and strictly non-partisan, but proudly, publicly and persistently political.
Register now! Price: $45 includes lunch; some scholarships available
Registration:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2978
Other: 209-329-5067.
