BUILDING A BIGGER "WE": ORGANIZING CONVERSATIONS THAT HELP GROW OUR MOVEMENTS

Organizing is about listening to people, identifying what they care about, presenting a vision for what is possible, and moving people to action. It is also about bring in people that don’t agree with us on everything. To build a bigger “we,” we need to identify ways to connect with people across difference, focusing on where there is common ground. This workshop offers an outline and tools for having organizing conversations that move people to collective action.

WHAT TO EXPECT

1 hour Orientation
- Join us on zoom to meet fellow organizers and members of The OC training team, set learning goals, and make plans for achieving them over the course of our journey together.
2-3 hours of Self-Paced Learning
- on your own schedule, dig into videos, readings and worksheets to learn the basic concepts. At the end, submit the questions you want to answer, the challenges you are facing, and what you want to practice during the live practice & coaching session.
2 hour Live Practice Session
- you will practice and strengthen the skills you learned in the previous weeks with feedback from experienced organizers. Be prepared to be on camera, practice, and receive feedback. Having a computer with strong internet connection and the ability to connect to video will ensure the best experience.

By the end of this workshop you will:

Learned a template for transformative organizing conversations
Expanded and refined your toolkit for moving people to action with tools like asking probing questions, identifying self-interest, and deep listening
Practiced working through the challenges you are facing having 1-1s

This workshop is right for you if:

you are newer to having one-on-one conversations that attempt to move people to take action, or
you are more experienced and facing challenges in your organizing conversations
You are interested in combining independent learning time with group practice

WORKSHOP DATES

Dates are for live sessions with trainers; videos, worksheets and readings will be available in between to explore at your own pace

September

Sept 9th - 12pm- 1pm | Orientation

Self-paced learning due by Friday, Sept 19th

Sept 30th- 1pm- 3pm | Live Practice

*Spanish interpretation available with 2 weeks' notice

October

Oct 7th - 12pm- 1pm | Orientation

Self-paced learning due by Friday, Oct 17th

Oct 28th- 1pm- 3pm | Live Practice

*Spanish interpretation available with 2 weeks' notice

Want to learn more? Join us for our seasonal Q+A sessions

Fall 2025 Q&A w/ Spanish Interpretation; Wednesday, August 6th, 12pm - 1pm ET / 9am - 10am PT

Trainers

Eboni Taggart

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With over 15 years of experience in community building, Eboni has maximized the leadership skills of community members, teachers, youth, and parents to advocate for transformative systemic change on issues that impact their lives. She has also supported organizations on outreach, strategy, program management, leadership development and political education.

Aurora Muñoz

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Aurora is a Texas Chicana with a deep love for South Philadelphia. She has a decade of experience in reproductive health, migrant health, and community and labor organizing. Alongside immigrants and youth, she worked to uphold language justice laws, increase spending in youth health programs, and implement policy change in health education in DC Public Schools. She currently leads leadership development and political education programming for domestic workers in Philadelphia. She believes that movement work needs profound joy and beauty, along with fruitful tension and conflict.

Cara Tratner

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Cara brings a decade of experience as a facilitator, organizer, and harm reduction practitioner. They live in Philadelphia where they organize at the intersection of housing justice and mass liberation. They have been working towards prison abolition in Philly for the past seven years through campaigns to shut down jails and end pretrial detention. They also like working with other white people to unlearn the trauma of supremacy and find their stake in collective liberation. Cara dreams of a world without prisons or police and a world of interdependence where we keep each other safe. They strive to embody the radical imagination, rigor, and rebellious joy it will take to get there. They love bringing music and song into movement spaces.

Christi Clark

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Christi brings over twenty years of community and labor organizing experience where she developed the leadership, organization and coalitions necessary to win. Prior to founding The Organizing Center she built strong unions, won policy changes that decriminalized black and brown high school youth, and led a campaign that won $100M for affordable housing in Philly. She believes people power is the only way to win and that another world is possible. When she is not nerding- out about organizing, she likes to hike in the woods, ride her bike and build Legos with her kids.

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