Workshop/Academy Session 1 • Friday, January 20 Please check the grid schedule for room locations.
Use this key on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to easily locate workshops related to the issue areas below! n Criminal Justice n Disability Justice n Economic Justice n Gender Justice (inclusive of Transgender Justice) n Immigration Justice n Practice Spirit Do Justice/ Faith Organizing n Racial Justice n Religious Exemptions Legislation n Reproductive Justice
ACADEMY SESSION 1 9:00 am – 12:15 pm All Academy Sessions 3 Hours Creating a Culture of Storytelling In this three-hour workshop, Morten Group, LLC President Mary F. Morten and Consulting Associate Vince Pagán will show participants how to use storytelling to advance the fundraising efforts of their organizations. The workshop will cover storytelling 101, explore storytelling as a tool for fundraising, and allow individuals to work together in verbal and written story sharing exercises to take steps and gain the tools necessary to build a culture of storytelling at their organizations. Presenters: Vince Pagan, Morten Group, LLC; Mary Morten, Morten Group, LLC
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NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2017
How to Create a 20K Person Faith Network in Your State Basic fundamentals of organizing will be explored in relation to a specific very big goal - most people don’t realize that there are more people of faith supportive of LGBTQ people than there are opposed. The opposition is just better organized in showing their numbers in strategic places. We will connect social media action with on the ground in-person action. We will show how to connect geographical areas by asking people to do the same action in several places across a state. Using examples from Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia, we will introduce strategies and planning tools that get you to a stretch goal of 20K people! Presenters: Kathleen Campisano, National LGBTQ Task Force; Bri Sanders, National LGBTQ Task Force; Reese Rathjen, Believe Out Loud
Manifesting Abundance in Working Poor and Working Class Communities As people who have been targeted by capitalism and who live or have lived in working class and working poor communities, we sometimes tend to operate from a model of scarcity, believing that we must hold tightly to all that we possess. Join us as we explore exercises that will allow participants to mend the wounds scarcity has created, and gently invite participants to discover the expansive possibilities of living from a space of abundance. Using a range of intuitive exercises and imaginative practices, we will collectively uncover the possibilities of manifesting abundance and welcoming new beginnings in our lives. This workshop will give participants innovative strategies to create a movement culture grounded in access to our creativity, emotions and bodies that allows us to discover new ways to thrive in today’s challenging world. NOTE: This workshop is reserved for people who were raised working poor and/ or working class. Presenters: Kari Points; Danielle Stevens
Movement Building: Power to Transform We live in a critical moment. People are on the move demanding change. Dialogue about the range of systematic injustices is expanding, and the pace of the calls for justice is accelerating. Movements are developing that see the interconnection of issues and seek to transform the structures of how we live. How do we understand this moment? What does it mean for us, individually and collectively, to be in this movement