Summary

A German-language practical walkthrough of the four-step community-organizing method (one-to-ones → research → action → organisation) plus practice aids — the German-language on-ramp to broad-based / Bürgerplattform organizing.

Body

The Wegweiser Praxishilfen is a free web publication of the Stiftung Mitarbeit and the Bundesnetzwerk Bürgergesellschaftliches Engagement, walking a German-speaking reader through the broad-based organizing method. The four-step method is presented in German terms: (1) Tür-zu-Tür-Gespräche (door-knock one-to-ones), (2) Recherche (research), (3) Aktion (action), (4) Organisation (building the committee). Each step has a printable worksheet, a sample script, and a worked example drawn from a German Bürgerplattform. The publication is the most accessible German-language introduction to broad-based organizing. License: ARR (free web); paraphrase and link out. [source: buergergesellschaft-community-organizing]

Use it for

Introducing German-speaking organizers to broad-based community organizing; adapting the four-step method to a German Bürgerplattform context; training new organizers.

Related

• affinity-groups
• coalition-building
• constructive-programme
• distributed-organizing
• framing-and-narrative
• leadership-development
• one-to-ones
• public-narrative

Open Questions

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Sources & verification

• buergergesellschaft-community-organizing — grounding: secondary — RAW (ARR free web verified)

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