Introduction to the Mobilization Intervention by Phil Bartle, PhD Module Introduction Documents Included in this Mobilization Module: A Mobilization Cycle, the overall process; workshop handout; The Mobilization Cycle Explicated, explained step-by-step; To be a Mobilizer, what does it take? training handout; Unity Organizing, purpose and means to unify a community; Eating With Friends, the role of food in empowering communities, and Training As Mobilizing, the methodology of using training to mobilize. (The illustrations can not be shown here; look on the web page). Moving a community to take action: The empowerment of communities, the promotion of community participation, the mobilization cycle, the stimulation of self help, social change towards more self reliance, the fight to eliminate poverty -- all these form a related set of interventions. The agent of these can be variously called animator, facilitator, mobilizer, community development officer, change agent or activist. This series of training modules for the empowerment of low income communities, includes a set of several documents about this intervention process. This series includes: Introduction to the Mobilization Intervention, this introduction, The Mobilization Cycle, a workshop handout, The Mobilization Cycle, explained in more detail, The Mobilization Cycle Illustrations, line drawings by Julianna Kuruhiira, illustrating each stage of the cycle, To be a Mobilizer, a one-page training handout indicating what is needed to be a mobilizer, and what a mobilizer does, Unity Organizing, explains that communities are not naturally unified, but the intervention needs to unite a community in order to make a communal decision, Eating With Friends, describes the role of food in empowering communities, Training As Mobilizing, describes the special methodology of training that includes organizing as well as skill transfer. --» «-- If you copy any text from this site, please link it back to: http://www.scn.org/cmp/ Updated: 2003 May 13