Webinar: April 27, 2011Sarah Byrnes and Dakota Butterfield

Common Security Clubs

Core assumption #1

The world is changing.

Common Security Clubs

Core assumption #1

The next 15 to 20 years are likely to be very different than any recent period in our history.

We will most likely be facing deep, destabilizing challenges in our communities.

Common Security ClubsCore assumption #1

Growing economic difficulties from an increasingly destabilized global economy

Rising oil prices dramatically affecting food and transportation costs, as well as other basic needs

Disruption and stress from increasingly frequent extreme weather events, locally and globally, and general environmental depletion on many fronts

Common Security ClubsCore assumption #2

Community connections that support resourcefulness have weakened over the past 50 years.

25% of us report having no one to confide in about personal troubles.

We need to rebuild our collective community muscles.

Common Security Clubs

Common Security Clubs is one response…

Learn about challenges togetherBuild community connectionsProvide support for one anotherTake action together

…structured but flexible tool…

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Who is with us today?

POLL

Common Security ClubsPoll

Major City City Small town Rural

Common Security ClubsPOLL

Sprout: interested/excited by idea;want to learn more

Seedling: preliminary conversations with a few others;

possible partners identifiedSapling: one or two organizing meetings under yr belt;

on your way to an Intro SessionBranch: under way -- committed group has met

Common Security ClubsOur webinars - an ongoing experiment

TOPICS

Value of an organizing partner

How to communicate about Common Security Clubs

Finding a facilitator (if you’re not the one to do it)

A few notes about an Introductory Session

Using the curriculum

Staying in touch

Common Security ClubsTOPICS

VALUE OF AN ORGANIZING PARTNER

How to communicate about Common Security Clubs

Finding a facilitator (if you’re not it)A few notes about an Introductory Session

Using the curriculumStaying in touch

Common Security ClubsVALUE OF AN ORGANIZING PARTNER

What’s one of the most important things to look for in a partner?

Common Security Clubs

VALUE OF AN ORGANIZING PARTNER

Excited by the idea of a Club

Good chemistry

Magnet for other people; not an obstacle

Dependable

Common Security Clubs

VALUE OF AN ORGANIZING PARTNER

Experience with facilitationConnected to circles of interested

people

Common Security Clubs

VALUE OF AN ORGANIZING PARTNER

Sharing your tips and stories

Common Security Clubs

Topics

Value of an organizing partnerHOW TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT COMMON SECURITY CLUBS

Finding a facilitator (if you’re not it)A few notes about an Introductory

SessionUsing the curriculum

Staying in touch

Common Security Clubs

HOW TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT COMMON SECURITY CLUBS

What attracted you to the idea?

Why are you interested in starting a Club?

Common Security ClubsHOW TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT COMMON SECURITY CLUBS

Think about who you are talking to.

What do they care about?How is what they care about connected

to the idea of a Club?

Common Security ClubsHOW TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT COMMON SECURITY CLUBS

What handles help you communicate the essence?

Six 2-hour get-togethers over a couple months…?

Learn about the roots of the economic turmoil we’re facing and think about how to create

more security with one another…?

Common Security ClubsHOW TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT COMMON SECURITY CLUBS

What handles help you communicate the essence?

Structured but flexible group meetings that are…Very participatory

Help people get to know one anotherA place to read and learn things together

Good for brainstorming ideas

Common Security ClubsHOW TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT COMMON SECURITY CLUBS

Watch the video and check out stories from other Clubs.

Look for tidbits that seem inspiring to you and commit them to memory.

Show the video to others.

http://www.youtube.com/user/commonsecurityclubs#p/a/u/1/jd8KYd7ur1w

Common Security ClubsHOW TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT COMMON SECURITY CLUBS

http://commonsecurityclub.org/2010/02/10/publicity-resources/

Use the sample materials on our website, and submit your own.

Common Security Clubs

HOW TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT COMMON SECURITY CLUBS

Sharing your tips and stories

Common Security Clubs

Topics

Value of an organizing partnerHow to communicate about Common Security

ClubsFINDING A FACILITATOR (IF YOU’RE NOT IT)

A few notes about an Introductory SessionUsing the curriculum

Staying in touch

Common Security Clubs

FINDING A FACILITATOR

Poll: On a scale of 0 to 3, how experienced are you (or an organizing

partner) as a facilitator?

Common Security ClubsFINDING A FACILITATOR (IF YOU’RE NOT IT)

Religious communities, especially folks who lead religious education classes

Common Security ClubsFINDING A FACILITATOR (IF YOU’RE NOT IT)

Religious communitiesHelping organizations: anti-poverty groups, Neighborhood Development Corps, food pantries, foreclosure prevention agencies

Common Security ClubsFINDING A FACILITATOR (IF YOU’RE NOT IT)

Religious communitiesHelping organizations: anti-poverty groups, Neighborhood Development Corps, food pantries, foreclosure prevention agencies

Neighborhood groups, block associations

Common Security ClubsFINDING A FACILITATOR (IF YOU’RE NOT IT)

Religious communitiesHelping organizations: anti-poverty groups, Neighborhood Development Corps, food pantries, foreclosure prevention agencies

Neighborhood groups, block associations

Environmental activists/groups

Common Security ClubsFINDING A FACILITATOR (IF YOU’RE NOT IT)

Religious communitiesHelping organizations: anti-poverty groups, Neighborhood Development Corps, food pantries, foreclosure prevention agencies

Neighborhood groups, block associations

Environmental activists/groupsLabor groups, unions

Common Security ClubsFINDING A FACILITATOR (IF YOU’RE NOT IT)

Religious communitiesHelping organizations: anti-poverty groups, Neighborhood Development Corps, food pantries, foreclosure prevention agencies

Neighborhood groups, block associationsEnvironmental activists/groupsLabor groups, unionsUsed clothing exchanges, book clubsOther ideas?

Common Security ClubsFINDING A FACILITATOR (IF YOU’RE NOT IT)

What are their interests and goals? How might supporting a Club help them achieve something important to them?

Paint a positive vision with details from real stories.

Ask for help directly.

Common Security Clubs

FINDING A FACILITATOR (IF YOU’RE NOT IT)

Sharing your tips and stories

Common Security Clubs

Topics

Value of an organizing partnerHow to communicate about Common Security

ClubsFinding a facilitator (if you’re not it)

A FEW NOTES ABOUT AN INTRODUCTORY SESSION

Using the curriculumStaying in touch

Common Security ClubsA FEW NOTES ABOUT AN INTRODUCTORY SESSION

Hour-and-a-half long agenda designed to introduce the idea of a Common Security Club.

On our website as a Word document.

Can be used with an “open invitation” group, or with a specific group considering the idea of a Club.

Provides a taste of what Common Security Clubs are like, with some new ideas mixed with personal sharing.

Common Security ClubsA FEW NOTES ABOUT AN INTRODUCTORY SESSION

Check out, beginning on p 13 of The Facilitator’s Guide, a three page handout called “Planning Timeline and Tips for Getting Started.”

Helpful suggestions about finding a place to meet, and a general timeline for planning the steps leading up to an Introductory Session.

Common Security Clubs

A FEW NOTES ABOUT AN INTRODUCTORY SESSION

Other ways to create connections that could lead to a Club:

A regular dinner/discussion group

A group of friends who decide to watch a series of thought-provoking movies together

LATER: a Common Security Club introductory session

Common Security Clubs

A FEW NOTES ABOUT AN INTRODUCTORY SESSION

Sharing your tips and stories

Common Security Clubs

Topics

Value of an organizing partnerHow to communicate about Common Security

ClubsFinding a facilitator (if you’re not it)A few notes about an Introductory Session

USING THE CURRICULUM

Staying in touch

Common Security ClubsCURRICULUM NOTES

Follow it step-by-step OR

Use it as a treasure chest to pull ideas from as you invent your own meetings

ORAdapt it around the edges to suit the culture of

your group

Common Security ClubsCURRICULUM NOTES

What matters:Space to talk, both comfortable and contained

No dominance, no preachingWhole selves: mind/heart/bodyExposure to new ideasFocus on taking action togetherSharing food/rituals

Common Security ClubsCURRICULUM NOTES

Session One

“Who’s here? What do we have in common?”

LEARNING: Roots of the Great Recession – What happened?

CONCEPT: Phantom Wealth vs. Real Wealth

Common Security ClubsCURRICULUM NOTES

Session Two “Debt and Economic Insecurity”

LEARNING: Banks, Borrowing and Debt – Where have we come to?

CONCEPT: Relying on Ourselves – Past, Present and Future

Common Security ClubsCURRICULUM NOTES

Session Three LEARNING: “Our Ecological ‘Debt’” CONCEPTS: Facing Denial

Redefining Growth Choosing

Resilience and Transition

Common Security ClubsCURRICULUM NOTES

Session Four

LEARNING: “The Great Risk Shift”CONCEPT: Redefining What Gives Us Security

ACTION: Things We Can Do Together

Common Security ClubsCURRICULUM NOTES

Session Five

ACTIVITY: Gifts and NeedsCONCEPT: “The Commons” –

Seeing it, protecting it, sharing it

Common Security ClubsCURRICULUM NOTES

Session Six

CONCEPT: “The New Economy” –Local, decentralizedLess consumption, more communityDiverse sources of income in every

household

ACTIVITY: Visualizing a positive future

DECISION: What’s next?

Common Security ClubsPLUG IN TO THE NETWORK

Event listingsYour club’s nameTell us: What works and what doesn’t?

Stories from your clubMonthly facilitator support calls

Email with other facilitators

Common Security Clubs STAYING IN TOUCH

Suggest resources for others that you have found useful.

Check for resources you might want to try with your group.

Common Security ClubsFUTURE EVENTS

http://commonsecurityclub.org/events