The Next Evolution of the Anti-Violence Movement
Co-Creating Organizations That Empower Advocates to Contribute, Grow, and Thrive
What would become possible if anti-violence organizations were designed not only to respond to crises, but to help advocates contribute, grow, and thrive?
That question is at the heart of RAFT’s first Appreciative Inquiry Summit:
The Next Evolution of the Anti-Violence Movement:
Co-Creating Organizations That Empower Advocates to Contribute, Grow, and Thrive
This three-day virtual summit is something new for RAFT, and we are excited to invite you into it. We are trying something big because we believe this movement deserves more than survival strategies. It deserves spaces where advocates, leaders, and organizations can imagine, design, and build what comes next.
This will not be a traditional sit-and-listen training.
That means you will be invited into conversation, reflection, journaling, storytelling, and collaborative idea-building with advocates, leaders, and supporters from across the country.
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What is Appreciative Inquiry?
When most people and organizations think about change, the conversation usually starts with what’s broken, missing, or not working. And while well-meaning, this approach to change can stir up tension and burnout among your team.
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) flips that script.
Instead of asking ‘what’s wrong,” AI helps you explore what’s working, what people love, and what you want more of in your workplace. That doesn’t mean ignoring challenges – it means approaching them through a lens of possibility, strength, and shared success.
Our Summit Task and Objectives
Over the course of three days, imagine that you have been recruited to work with a brand-new organization that is building a new type of anti-violence workplace. The focus of the organization is to create the ideal workplace for advocates so that survivors will receive the highest level of care. A place where you can:
- Contribute to making a difference for survivors, yourself, your colleagues, the organization, and the movement
- Grow personally and professionally into the person and advocate you want to be
- Thrive and live the life you want, while doing challenging work
During the summit, you will draw on your own experiences in the anti-violence movement to:
- Discover the strengths of your current or past organizations, your colleagues, and yourself
- Dream about what an organization that empowers you to contribute, grow, and thrive looks like
- Design the starting plan for creating this organization.
- Deliver the pieces that will be the first step in making this organization a reality
At the end of our time together, you will have new ideas and actions to share with your colleagues and organization to start making change. You will also have the opportunity to continue working on your ideas with the RAFT summit community.
Download the Summit workbook here!
During the three-day summit, you will use this 47-page workbook. Feel free to print yourself a copy, or use the fillable fields on your computer.
Have the workbook handy on your computer to access links and follow along throughout the summit.
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