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Collective Visioning Exercise 1
Dear Friends, Below please find Collective Visioning Exercise 1 from my book Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future. I have updated the exercises to make them friendlier for online use. I will be sharing them over the course of the next weeks. If you would like to receive […]
Stepping Stones – After the KKK Attack – Storytelling Part 2
Tags: linda stout, Stories, Storytelling
This is the second part of a three-part series on storytelling and community organizing. One of the things we work on in the storytelling workshop is how to make the first line capture the attention of the audience and the last line show the learning or moral of the story. I learned this lesson when I […]
Stepping Stones – Storytelling – Part 1
Tags: linda stout, Stories, Storytelling, training
This is the first part of a three-part series on storytelling and community organizing. Indigenous communities have used stories for teaching and passing down information for thousands of years. Today, science is catching up and starting to understand the importance of storytelling. Storytelling isn’t just a better way to connect with your audience: It also […]
Spirit in Action’s Fall 2018 Newsletter
Tags: civic engagement, Collective Visioning, community organizing, dismantling racism, empowerment, get out the vote, linda stout, spirit in action, training
Read the entire Fall 2018 Spirit in Action Newsletter here. Dear Friends, I can see how it happened every step of the way. There are breadcrumbs all over the place. Go back with me nearly four decades, when the Right created a plan to change what we teach our kids. In the 1980s, the Rev. […]
How do we sustain HOPE in times of crisis?
Tags: Collective Visioning, community organizing, cultural shift, empowerment, leadership, linda stout, popular education, spirit in action, We the People
It’s really hard to have a positive outlook or hope with all that’s happening in the world today: political chaos, hate, violence, environmental disaster, and a list much too long to write here. And worse, it seems that people are feeding off all this hatred and chaos and it continues to grow, taking over everything […]
The Power of Plain Ol’ Human Talk
Tags: civic engagement, Collective Visioning, cultural shift, empowerment, leadership, linda stout, popular education, spirit in action
Popular Education, Economic Justice and Civic Engagement “Let’s get on with technology as a way of connecting us to people and places we have never known and have never seen. But let us not give up the power of plain ol’ human talk to do the same.” -Johnnetta B. Cole During a family reunion at the […]
‘Hopelessness is Our Biggest Enemy’ – In These Times’ article by Linda Stout
For In These Times’ December 2013 cover feature, “Generation Hopeless?”, the magazine asked a number of politically savvy people, younger and older, to respond to an essay by 22-year-old Occupy activist Matthew Richards in which he grapples with what the movement meant and whether Occupy’s unfulfilled promises are a lost cause or the seeds of the different world whose promise he […]
Cultural Shift #4 – Beginning with Vision by Linda Stout
I just wrote my new 15 year vision. I had created a 13 year vision back in 2007 for the year 2020. But, now I need a new one because almost everything in that vision has been accomplished. My new vision begins with “it is July 2028 and I am 75 years old.” I went […]
Being a leader, starting with ME – Making a Cultural Shift
How do we embrace the challenges that we face today as well as tomorrow’s promises? To do this we must lead with hope and optimism, with vision. If we really want to create change in the world, it begins with “me” — with [insert your name]. We are all leaders although some may be playing […]
