Based off of successful organizing practices from the Obama for America campaigns and the engagement organizing framework developed by Marshall Ganz, this highly interactive 1-day training with Organize BC will give participants a grounding in organizing practices to successfully create distributed leadership teams to work on campaigns.  As a participant, you can expect to walk away with a deeper understanding of what it means to be an organizer in your community, and have practical next steps to implement.

Most of the day follows the ladder of engagement approach an organizer uses to escalate a supporter into a volunteer leadership using the 'organizing cycle'.  The organizing cycles steps includes (with corresponding workshop content):

• A supporter signing a petition (Canvassing)
• The supporter being asked to volunteer (prospecting and hard asks),
• The volunteer committing to becoming a regular team member (recruitment 1:1)
• Maintaining the relationship with the team member (maintenance 1:1 and coaching)
• Escalating the team member into a leadership position where they will run canvasses and recruit other volunteers (leadership tests and escalation 1:1)