Sam Neubauer ’17, realizing that his time organizing on campus was coming to a close, decided that the best way to spend his last term would be to enhance the organizing capabilities of others within the Carleton community. He wanted to ensure that students “have the skills and tools they need to do whatever they want to do with their time at Carleton.”
With this goal in mind, CORAL, WHOA and the CCCE created the “Up Your Game” organizer training series, which includes workshops and discussions on base building, meeting facilitation, and campaign strategy. Last Wednesday, around a dozen students met in WHOA/Huntington house to eat pizza and discuss how to better facilitate club meetings. Led by Mathew Elfstrand ‘17 and Peter Sang ’17, the discussion included such questions as “how important is a facilitator to be impartial” and “what does it mean to have a successful meeting.”
The last and largest workshop in the series will take place this Thursday, May 11th at 6:30 pm in the Nourse Lounge. Patty O’Keefe and Nicole Eknitphong, two Minneapolis based climate organizers will lead a training on campaign strategy.
“They are going to be talking about a couple of different tools that can be used for creating a campaign strategy,” Neubauer said, “thinking about how power is organized.. [and] creating strategic ways to accomplish whatever goal [they’re] trying to accomplish.”
Contact Sam Neubauer at neuabuers@carleton.edu with questions about the training.