How You Doing? an organizing tool for these times
We’ve been experimenting with some tools that will help us build and maintain relationships, and continue to organize during this time of physical distancing.
How You Doing? is designed to be a quick regular (daily) virtual check-in, hosted on Zoom, or a similar platform.
Purpose: to take advantage of the current moment of enforced seclusion to meet in virtual rooms where people can share their experience, engage, derive sustenance, and prepare to mobilize.
Short game: to win big in the presidential and legislative elections in November 2020.
Long game: Creating the world we want to see by Inviting, embracing, and empowering people who have historically felt — or have literally been — excluded from the US political process.
Outcomes:
How You Doing? is designed to be a quick regular (daily) virtual check-in, hosted on Zoom, or a similar platform.
Purpose: to take advantage of the current moment of enforced seclusion to meet in virtual rooms where people can share their experience, engage, derive sustenance, and prepare to mobilize.
Short game: to win big in the presidential and legislative elections in November 2020.
Long game: Creating the world we want to see by Inviting, embracing, and empowering people who have historically felt — or have literally been — excluded from the US political process.
Outcomes:
- Building an army of organizers and activists, who are prepared to use whatever tolls are available to us in summer 2020 to mobilize nationally and register, educate, inspire, enable, and transport citizen-voters, with a specific focus on demographics for whom voting has been made less and less easy.
- Doable daily contact (15-minutes or less) for cross-organizational working teams, in order to coalesce local cohorts. through daily “How was your day?” meetings, and
- The platform created can be the foundation for longer meetings, more substantial conversation.
The sense of community, respect and familiarity nurtured through daily sessions will deepen relationships at a time when we are not able to share physical space.. - Access to virtual “break-out” rooms, where people can arrange to meet post-“How was your day?” on Zoom, or via alternative platforms, to co-work a more intimate context.
How it works
Individuals meet and respond to the prompt “How You Doing?”
A leader might offer a greeting, an inspirational thought. And then we go around the room, as each participant offers a 30-second "snapshot" — literal or figurative — of how it's going for them.
The form is specific: it’s not so much a narrative, as it is the description of a moment, a feeling, a revelation. Stacie is available to get on initial calls with your teams and show you how to compose these offerings, in order to support a quick, evocative, and satisfying check-in.
Some examples:
I went to Trader Joe’s, asked the cute guy who was in charge of wrangling the line what time I needed to get there for frozen broccoli, toilet paper. We chatted, and I realized we were way too close: It occurred to me that little flirtation could wind up hurting not just me, but my family.
I walked past the Ronald Reagan Building this morning and waved hello to four women in janitorial uniforms, wearing World War Two vintage gas masks.
You might want to share a real snapshot, and briefly describe what it means to you.
A leader might offer a greeting, an inspirational thought. And then we go around the room, as each participant offers a 30-second "snapshot" — literal or figurative — of how it's going for them.
The form is specific: it’s not so much a narrative, as it is the description of a moment, a feeling, a revelation. Stacie is available to get on initial calls with your teams and show you how to compose these offerings, in order to support a quick, evocative, and satisfying check-in.
Some examples:
I went to Trader Joe’s, asked the cute guy who was in charge of wrangling the line what time I needed to get there for frozen broccoli, toilet paper. We chatted, and I realized we were way too close: It occurred to me that little flirtation could wind up hurting not just me, but my family.
I walked past the Ronald Reagan Building this morning and waved hello to four women in janitorial uniforms, wearing World War Two vintage gas masks.
You might want to share a real snapshot, and briefly describe what it means to you.
I took a walk into a part of town where there weren't a lot of people. The sky was clear, the streets were quiet. I saw this sign and it occurred to me that we were in a place where anything is possible.
Stacie is available to help at any step of the process. [email protected] 310-713-8841
