Archive for February, 2007
Two Paths to Social Change
Unless they’re focused simply on providing direct service, social change groups are seeking to change the way people live with each other or the natural environment. So from an activist’s or ‘change agent’s’ point of view, what are the basic approaches for pushing an idea further and faster along the social change bell curve?
It strikes [...]
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AOC: Field Research
Let’s begin doing some field research today. Over the course of the day you will find yourself in a variety of different work contexts. You will be collaborating within a number of different relationships. Let’s take what we’ve been learning about contracting, and see to what degree these contexts and relationships rest upon a [...]
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AOC: The Art of Contracting
Practice #5: THE ART OF CONTRACTING. Good contracting is fundamental to our work as agents of change. Please read this carefully, then proceed to the written assignment at the end of the e-mail. Important: The next 7 days represent a self-study course in contracting. Each of the 7 days of this practice examines [...]
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AOC: Ain’t it awful?
We are coming to the end of our practice on Have To/Choose To. Today, really listen to the conversations around your organization or your circles of colleagues and friends. Where do groups of people… or teams…fall into “I have to” and “I can’t?” To what degree do people collude in each others’ victimization? Do people [...]
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AOC: Have to/Choose to III
With all those with whom you interact, be aware of each time anyone says or implies “I have to…” or I can’t…” or acts in ways that suggest they might feel this way.
The primary purpose of this practice is to heighten your sensitivity to how others give away their freedom and power. Recognizing [...]
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Power: What Lies Beneath
“There is nothing wrong with power if used correctly… What we need to realize is that power without love is reckless and abusive and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against [...]
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AOC: Excuse of the Month
And the excuse of the week award goes to a Zambian tennis player quoted in a local paper following his defeat in a match: “Musumba Bwalaya is a stupid man and a hopeless player. He has a huge nose and is cross-eyed. He only beat me because my jockstrap was [...]
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AOC: The Frightening Conclusion
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of [...]
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Do you want to have results in your life? Or stories, reasons and excuses? The practice of self-responsibility and language of “choose to” help give us the power to create results. We construct reality through language… Through the conversations we have with others…and inside our own heads. The language of “have [...]
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The Trajectory of Social Change
How does social change “happen”? And what can social change leaders and groups do to help it happen? Before getting into the philosophy or techniques for movement-building, or for ‘accelerating’ or influencing social change, I’ve found it helpful to unpack the basics. So I’ll start with what, to me, is the seminal and [...]
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