learning room. lcm. 2013. natalie finstad. kenya

1. Clients to Constituency
Can Organizing End the Dependency Cycle?
18 December 2013
Natalie Finstad, Tatua Kenya
Leading Change Network

2. Team for Session
 Technology – Dan Grandone
 Time Keeping – Nisreen Haj Ahmed
 Chat Monitor – Joseph Worthy
 Scribe – Sarah Welch

3. Technology Reminders

4. Agenda for Day
11: 00 Welcome and Housekeeping
11: 10 Introduction to Tatua
11:15 Group Discussion on Case Studies
12:05 What Next?
12:20 Evaluation

5. Goals for Day
 Learn about the role of organizing in ending the
dependency cycle through a discussion of our
respective experiences.
 Identify key actions we can take, in our individual
work, to address the dependency cycle through
organizing
 Discuss our collective responsibility as organizers
to address the dependency cycle.
 Set Next Step for this discussion

6. Chat Room Norms
 Chat can be used to comment on what is
currently being shared by the speaker.
 If you’d like to speak, indicate in the chat room
and type 1-2 sentences about your contribution.
 Joe will be alerting people that they will be
speaking through a private message – keep an
eye on your chat.
 Make sure you are messaging all when you’re on
the chat room

8. Collaborative Strategy
•Who has been the lead
on strategy creation in
your campaigns? A staff
or the community
themselves?
•If you were Tatua how
would you structure the
work so that the
community has a key
role in creating
strategy?
•How do we continue to
practice leadership
while inviting the
community in to create
the strategy/structure for
the campaign?

9. Short-Term Actions, Long-Term
Implications
•Compare the actions of
the missionaries in
Kajiado vs. the history of
Maseno, what mistakes
were made? Why?
•What would you do if
you found a population
without water, food,
access to education?
How could you develop
leadership while
addressing these
challenges?

10. Adaptive Change
•Why do we sometimes
use organizing as a
‘technical solution?’
•How do we create the
conditions for the
community to adapt?
How would you work
with some one like Rose
to develop her
leadership?
•What made the
application of the
organizing skills with
Rose adaptive vs.
technical?

11. Building Relationships
•What relationship structure was created by the Methodist Hospital
developing a completely free service model?
•In organizing, relationships are built on through the exchange of resources
on the basis of a shared interest, what is the shared interest in this study?
What resources could be contributed?
•If you entered into this dynamic, now, what actions would you suggest to
redefine the relationship?

12. What Now?
 How does this affect your work?
 What is our collective responsibility as organizers
to address the dependency cycle?
 What next steps can we take together?