Dear Friend,

Build your skills as a powerful organizer! DC JWJ is recruiting organizers, activists, and community leaders to attend our organizing and leadership training. This training will take place from Friday, Nov 15th to Sunday, Nov 17th. This is an all day training for all three days (9 AM - 6 PM). Registration closes soon, register today! Read the description below for more details about the training. Feel free to email [email protected] if you have any questions!

Jobs With Justice Organizing and Leadership Training Program

This three-day, experiential training is a vehicle for creating a shared culture of accountability, agitation, and personal mastery as we seek to achieve higher standards from ourselves on the individual and organizational levels.

The training provides practical organizing skills, delivers a common organizing language and tools, transmits an orientation around personal mastery and promotes a shared political and economic analysis regarding working people’s struggle for justice versus a corporate agenda that actively seeks to disorganize and extract wealth from our families, communities and the natural environment.

The Training’s Core Principles

The training is grounded in the principles of solidarity, building long-term reciprocal relationships among and between diverse constituencies, direct action and mobilization, as well as understanding the motivations of social justice opponents and the techniques we need to win victories and build our power.

The training is embedded in the concepts of agitation, accountability and personal mastery. Agitation is the process of challenging people to grow and to act from their values. Accountability is the idea of following through with your commitments to the organization and your allies. Personal mastery is a concept that promotes alignment between social justice leaders’ values and behavior.

In addition to agitation, the training is designed to be interactive and supportive. The training requires that all participants share their experience and perspective throughout the training. The training also includes many large and small group exercises and games that simulate real-life scenarios to help transmit concepts in an experiential manner. These exercises require participants work together as teams and to support each other and be supported.

These concepts are supported by the Values Triangle, which is an organizing tool that has been informed by personal mastery practices.

These concepts will also be supported by an interwoven discussion of the corporate agenda and its constant campaign to disorganize and extract wealth from working people and the environment and how this helps shape the movement building work of Jobs with Justice, our members and allies.

This is a 3 day training for…

community leaders
organizers
youth groups
unions
parent groups
advocates and activists that are not a part of an organization
faith based groups

The training will take place from Friday, November 15th - Sunday, November 17th and will be located in the District of Columbia (location TBA). The fee for the training is $250.00 for the entire training per individual. For more information or to apply please contact Sequnely Gray at [email protected] or 202-674-2847.

In solidarity,
Sequnely Gray
Organizer
DC Jobs with Justice