Purpose

To activate everyday leaders with the clarity, tools, and confidence to move people and decisions in the places they care about most. Across four days, participants shift from reacting to issues to organizing their influence through clear steps, real relationships, and practical tools rooted in power building.

Outcomes

By the end of the 4-day lab, participants will:

1. Hold a clear, shared definition of power grounded in organized people and organized money — not personality or position.

2. Name one specific, winnable issue they can move in the next 30–90 days.

3. Draft a simple power map identifying key decision-makers, allies, and sources of people and money.

4. Identify at least 5 people to activate with specific roles and commitments.

5. Leave with a 30-day Power Plan that outlines weekly actions, milestones, and accountability touchpoints.Five days to shift from "I'm concerned" to "I'm organized" - right where you live, work, go to school or worship.

Day 1 – 🧭 Power Mindset Reset: See power clearly and stop shrinking your influence.

Day 2 – 🎯 Name the Right Fight: Turn vague frustration into a clear, winnable issue.

Day 3 – 🕸️ Map Your Power: Identify the people, money, and institutions that shape your world.

Day 4 – 📣 Activate Your Base: Move folks from interest to lasting commitments that build momentum.

Day 4 – 🗓️ Your 30-Day Power Plan: Build a simple, steady plan that moves your issue in one month.

PURPOSE

To strengthen everyday organizers with the clarity, structure, and strategic judgment needed to move people, grow power, and win consistently - using eight essential skills that can be applied in any community, institution, or campaign.

ACCELERATOR OUTCOMES:

1. Build a clear, repeatable organizing foundation.

Participants learn the core skills that make organizing steady and strong — narrative, management, base building, structure, metrics, and clear political thinking.

2. Strengthen their ability to move people into action with confidence.

Attendees practice teaching power, interpreting conditions, running actions, and coaching leaders to activate teams and grow their base without burnout.

3. Leave with a practical 90-day plan tied to real wins.

Each organizer walks away with a focused plan - grounded in power mapping, internal and external action, and predictable momentum - to move from one Victory Lane™ to the next.

OVERVIEW OF SESSIONS:

SESSION 1 — Storytelling with Purpose: Crafting Narrative for Lasting Change

Outcome: Build a purpose-driven narrative directly tied to your power map's four quadrants and current landscape.
Takeaway Tool: Power Stand Template.

SESSION 2 — Lead the Work: Secrets to Managing Up, Down, and Across

Outcome: Build a clear management approach that strengthens culture, supports your team, and helps you get what you need to move the work forward.
Takeaway Tool: Organizer Management Blueprint.

SESSION 3 — Stop the Burnout: Growing Your Base Without Destroying Your Core Team

Outcome: Build a balanced recruitment and onboarding flow that grows your base without draining your people.
Takeaway Tool: 30-Day Onboarding Flow Template.

SESSION 4 — Build the House: Structuring Your Organizing for Growth, Clarity, and New Talent

Outcome: Establish clear internal roles, rhythms, and decision pathways that support your team’s growth.
Takeaway Tool: Roles and Responsibilities Map.

SESSION 5 — Are You Moving the Needle? Measuring Power and Knowing If You’re Winning

Outcome: Define the power metrics that show whether your work is growing, shifting, or stalling.
Takeaway Tool: Monthly Power Tracker.

SESSION 6 — Teach the Tough Stuff: Strengthening How You Talk About Power

Outcome: Practice teaching a tough power concept, receive real feedback, and refine how you communicate power with clarity and confidence.
Takeaway Tool: Power Teaching Rehearsal Guide™.

SESSION 7 — Sharpen the Lens: Strengthening Your Political Thinking & Teaching It to Others

Outcome: Build stronger political analysis, see what others miss, and learn how to teach political thinking across your team.
Takeaway Tool: Political Thinking Field Guide™.

SESSION 8 — Victory Lane™: Build Your 90-Day Plan to Move the Work Forward

Outcome: Build a focused 90-day plan that ties every lesson together and moves your team from one Victory Lane™ to the next with internal and external actions, heightening predictable momentum.
Takeaway Tool: Victory Lane™ 90-Day Planner.

BONUS SESSION — The People’s Assembly: A Tool to Move Democratically and Set a Powerful Agenda

Outcome: Build a structured People’s Assembly agenda that surfaces priorities and grows community leadership.
Takeaway Tool: People’s Assembly Agenda Template.

PURPOSE OF THE TRAINING

To reshape how boards see power and their role in it — grounding them in the world as it is, not as they wish it to be. Participants strengthen their ability to support their ED, practice meaningful agitation rooted in trust, and shift into powerful partners who can read the landscape, move resources, and guide their institution toward real wins.

OUTCOMES:

1. Boards gain political clarity and strategic discipline.

Participants learn to define power, read the landscape, identify allies and opponents, and understand the real conditions shaping their institution. They stop confusing engagement with organizing and start offering grounded, strategic direction.

2. Boards know how to activate organized people and organized money.

Participants learn how to move people and capital with intention and integrity — converting networks into action, widening the organization’s reach, and strengthening its position.

3. Boards build a transformational partnership with their ED.

Participants learn relational agitation, strategic coaching, and a clear rhythm of accountability that multiplies the institution’s power and impact.

PLAN (EST):

Day 1: Monday, January 26 - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Day 2: Tuesday, January 27 - 10:00am - 3:30pm

Day 3: Wednesday, January 29 - 10:00am - 1:00pm

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

1. The Board Power Kit: A curated set of templates that includes role clarity tools, a landscape analysis worksheet, a board relational map, and a 90-day Board Power Plan.

2. The Organized People and Organized Money Playbooks: Two actionable guides that teach boards how to activate their network and their capital influence. Each playbook includes practice scenarios, activation steps, and a monthly rhythm for sustained action.

3. The Board and ED Partnership Protocol: A clear blueprint for strengthening their relationship with the ED. Includes expectations, conversational rhythms, agitation techniques, and a shared scorecard for tracking progress toward wins.