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Thu 4 Jun 2020 2:25PM

Peer-Support for 'Self' Sustainable Activism

RB Rosamonde Birch Public Seen by 13

Fiona and I are developing a proposal and pilot that supports the wellbeing, health and mutually supported energy of activists working across sustainability and future transformation projects. Fiona initiated the proposal through a Co-Creators collaborative discussion and through our exchanges we have formed a few initial ideas to introduce to Co-Creators and will be opening up the model to the group soon.

Core Focus:

  1. Peer-Support / Peer-mentoring for activists/catalysts/change makers

  2. Mutual and reciprocal support with rotating facilitation / co-facilitation and shared responsibility for peer-support across participants

  3. Open group dynamics with a commitment to oneself and others to enter peer-supporting as part of a wellbeing practice and as a community of activists.

We will aim to present our model and ideas by the end of June at a Co-Creator meeting and we look forward to peer-supporting with you soon.

RB

Rosamonde Birch Thu 25 Jun 2020 1:19PM

Co-Creator Feedback and Reflections

We had a wonderful opportunity to present the peer-support proposal to co-creators attending the lunchtime session today. Fee and I introduced the background, purpose and aims of the peer-support sessions, running a short taster session of the 'Social Atom' activity. I introduced the planned overview of the sessions and the group attending confirmed that the sessions should run:

  1. Monthly

  2. Evenings for 1 hour

  3. Mid-week sessions (Tuesday or Wednesday)

Each peer-support group will also have:

  1. Ground rules established at the start of their groups process together

  2. A commitment to attend the group at least bi-monthly if not monthly

  3. Co-facilitation to share ownership and responsibly for the peer-support practice. Fee and I will be happy to offer support/guidance for anyone taking this on in sessions.

  4. Max 10 participants per group (more than one group can run each month across different weeks)

Fee and I will coordinate to decide the starting date and invite co-creators to join if they wish to participate in 'sustaining ecologies' of transformation and activism.

Any other feedback and ideas from the co-creator community are welcome here through the Loomio groups.

Speak soon

Roz