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Dreams Into Action: Organizing Training Series

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Register for Dreams Into Action (Free!)

JULY – OCTOBER 2022

Organizing Trainings for a More Just World

This free 4-part series will be a space for parishioners, parish staff, and educators to skill-build the techniques and methods we need to manifest our dreams for justice into effective action.

Utilizing the lens of Ignatian discernment, we’ll examine how we:

  • build strong teams
  • mobilize people to action
  • amplify our message
  • engage in strategic advocacy
  • build support in our institutions
  • hold ourselves accountable to directly impacted communities

Meet The Trainer

Annie Fox is the Provincial Assistant for Social Ministry Organizing for Jesuits West. Prior to this role, Fox served as the Lead Organizer and Chief of Staff at LA Voice, the Lead Organizer at Sacramento Area Congregations Together (ACT) and Lead Education Organizer for PICO California — all of which are affiliates of Faith in Action, the largest faith-based organizing network in the country. Fox has run grassroots campaigns focused on housing, homelessness, education, immigration and mass incarceration. During her tenure with Faith in Action, she helped develop and steer the Dismantling White Supremacy project, a learning and action space for white staff and volunteers committed to becoming true co-conspirators in the work of racial justice. She also staffed the Diocesan Immigration Support Network for the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento.  With over 13 years of grassroots organizing experience, she has trained hundreds of faith leaders from many racial, religious and economic backgrounds. She has organized with UNITE HERE, the Industrial Area Foundations, the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action and Moishe Kavod Jewish Social Justice House. The daughter of a Baptist mother and a Jewish father, Fox had dedicated her life to interfaith relationship building and justice work.

SESSION 1

JULY 13

7:30-9PM ET/4:30-6PM PT

Good Soil: Encounter & Communal Discernment Part 1

How do we align people in our institutions around the dreams we wish to put into action?

Skills: Base-building, ally mapping, communal discernment

SESSION 2

AUGUST 10

7:30-9PM ET/4:30-6PM PT

Seeding: Encounter & Communal Discernment Part 2

How do we organize people and discern a common goal?  How do we inspire people to act?

Skills: Listening campaigns, recruitment, 1:1s and story-telling

SESSION 3

SEPTEMBER 14

7:30-9PM ET/4:30-6PM PT

Sprouting: Research & Reimagination

How do we get beyond our church walls to build relationships with the larger community, stay accountable to directly impacted people and engage in systemic change?

Skills: Power mapping and relational research meetings

SESSION 4

OCTOBER 19

7:30-9PM ET/4:30-6PM PT

Harvest: Taking Prophetic Action & Building Our Base

How do we take action for change that also builds our movements for justice? How do we utilize actions and events to recruit more leaders and broadcast our message?

Registration Cost: FREE!

FAQ’s

How long are sessions? Can I attend just one?

Sessions take place monthly and will last approximately 90 minutes.

You are asked to commit to attending at least three of the four sessions.

I’m not affiliated with a Jesuit institution. Can I still come?

Yes. While Dreams Into Action is grounded in Ignatian spirituality and serving the Jesuit network, it is open to all who have an openness to the Ignatian approach and a desire to build a more vibrant faith-justice parish or school community.

Who should attend Dreams Into Action?

  • Parish and school leaders/volunteers who don’t know where to start in their work for ecological and social justice.
  • Parish and school leaders/volunteers who have struggled to get traction in their work for ecological and social justice.
  • People who want explore organizing and advocacy work through an Ignatian / theological lens.
Register

Questions

Please contact Erin Brown at ebrown@ignatiansolidarity.net or (216) 200-4359.

STAY CONNECTED:

Sign up now to connect with the Jesuit network and learn how you can learn, educate, pray, and advocate for justice year-round.

Contact:

T: (855) 789-2004
E: info@ignatiansolidarity.net

Ignatian Solidarity Network
1 John Carroll Blvd.
University Heights, OH 44118

About:

The Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) is a national social justice network inspired by the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola. ISN was founded in 2004 and is a lay-led 501(c)3 organization working in partnership with Jesuit universities, high schools, and parishes, along with many other Catholic institutions and social justice partners.

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