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Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making

A workshop in a multi-session series on planning and making decisions together in mutual aid groups, facilitated by Dean Spade. Streamed live on November 11, 2021. 

Additional Resources

Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups

Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes!

Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street)

Neighborhood Anarchist Collective Facilitation Guide

On Conflict and Consensus

adrienne maree brown, Holding Change 

Peter Gelderloos, Consensus 

Example of a membership proposal 

Example of a decision making proposal 

Slides

Poll results

More information about the series is available here.

Co-sponsored by Fireweed Collective (https://fireweedcollective.org/) and Survived & Punished NY (https://www.survivedandpunishedny.org/).

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