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CSI Topics

CYCLE Strategy Institute (CSI)

ABOUT history TOPICS


PARTIAL LIST OF DISCUSSION TOPICS & SKILLS TRAINING MODULES

  • Strategic Power Analysis: Understanding Your Political Landscape & Strategies to Change It

  • The Outreach Triangle & Analysis: Troubleshooting Outreach & Organizing Efforts

  • Science of Numbers: Predicting Turnout & Troubleshooting Results

  • Analyzing & Confronting Dominant Themes & Worldviews: Good Sense vs. Common Sense

  • Conjunctural Analysis: Message, Framing, and Narratives in Our Work

  • Planning & Evaluating Your Work: Post Mortems and Pre Mortems

  • Outreach Protocols, Best Practices, and Tracking Your Results

  • Outreach Tactics & the Pros & Cons of Each

  • Outreach: What it is, What it is Not

  • Concentric Circles Model of Base Building

  • Approaches to Building Power

  • Information vs. Values in Organizing

  • Organizing Theory of Change

  • What is Power? How is it Used?

  • Organizing Models & Transactional/Reform vs. Transformative Approaches

  • Organizing vs. Activism

  • What is Organizing? Definitions, Activities, and Priorities in Organizing