The Self and Negotiation Unit 1: Class 4 Getting to know organizations and their members

Goals for today Continue developing a rhetoric for writing in the public interest Consider ways in which we can begin to enter into communities as outsiders using negotiation and self reflection Prime yourselves for your first meetings with community organizations

Develop a rhetoric for writing in the public interest Take out your homework based on page 73 of your book: exploratory writing Compare your notes and develop them Offer two concerns for discussion with the whole class

Methods for entering into communities What ideas, thoughts, and suggestions regarding negotiation in the modules might help you address your concerns?

Methods for entering into communities Consider what you know, what you don’t know, what you need to know. Free write in class in which you answer these questions to help you better understand your capacities. Consider how you will find out

Group Work Negotiation will happen in at least three different sites with this work: Organization Within Group Class & Ellen

Group Negotiations: Our Potentials and Challenges

Group Work cont.’ Trustworthiness is created over time as partners (from Module 4): –Give value and worth to each other's feelings, needs, thoughts, ideas, wishes and preferences –Fulfill their agreed upon responsibilities –Interact in open ways without hidden agendas –Show their belief in and caring for the partnership

Group Work cont.’ Identify the resources that they bring to the partnership Identify their needs (i.e., what they individually seek to gain from the partnership) Identify the partnership needs (i.e., what they collectively seek from the partnership) Share the resources to meet individual and collective needs

Activity As a group building exercise: –Use the points from the previous slide to determine your group members’: –Resources that they bring to the partnership –Goals for this work –What they hope the community partners’ need –Get a sense of who would like to do what with the organization.

Homework Make sure to read the next set of readings: Chapter 3 (skim samples) Complete Box 12 p. 13 in your notebook. Please complete the “groundwork activity” on page using any artifact you’ve gathered and/or the organization’s website. Make sure to meet with your organization by 1/27 Make sure to post your field notes and checklist to Angel. Use any of the templates for fieldnotes offered in Chp. 2 or the one from last class.