Michael P. P. Eichler 
Consensus Organizing [EPUB ebook] 
Building Communities of Mutual Self Interest

Empowering a community takes more than organizing and mobilizing its people; it takes a simple, yet radical, notion that consensus can be reached by creating mutual self interest between key individuals in the community and players of interest. In
Consensus Organizing: Building Communities of Mutual Self Interest, author Mike Eichler shows how even poor and disempowered communities can achieve lasting results by implementing some key consensus organizing strategies. Through personal, lively, and relevant examples, Eichler takes the reader on a road trip through various communities and shows how collectively they were able to reach lasting results by finding key areas where consensus could be reached.
Key features:

• The author shares his twenty-five years of experience as a community organizer, including the development of a national effort to train young people as consensus organizers in diverse locations such as Las Vegas, New Orleans, and New York City.


• Demonstrates how consensus organizing can be applied to a variety of settings, including public education, housing, economic development, health and crime.


• Gives readers the opportunity to learn more about themselves: It helps students to see the other side of any situation and understand how common ground can be achieved.


• It is written in a student-friendly, conversational manner, which will make students feel as if they have taken a journey with the author, struggled with the various communities, won the victories with the disempowered, and had a few laughs along the way.

Intended audience:
This book can be used as a core textbook for courses in community organizing and as a supplemental volume in various macro social work courses on community practice. It can also be used in departments of social work, urban planning, public administration, and public health.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Ch 1. Community Organizing: Conflict and Consensus
Ch 2. Evolution of Consensus Organizing
Ch 3. Issues Analysis
Ch 4. Program Design
Ch 5. Cultural Competency in Consensus Organizing
Ch 6. Consensus Organizing Strategy and Tactics
Ch 7. Developing External Relationships
Ch 8. Forming Partnerships
Ch 9. Building Personal Relationship
Ch 10.Building Institutional Relationships
Ch 11. Developing Young Organizers
Ch 12. Using Consensus Organizing in Other Professions
Ch 13. The Future of Consensus Organizing
‚Answers‘ to Reflection Questions
Epilogue

Über den Autor

Mike Eichler is Professor of Social Work at San Diego State University where he is also Director of the Consensus Organizing Center. He has an extensive background in community organizing and development in numerous cities including Chattanooga, Atlanta, Boston, Fort Worth, Kansas City and San Diego. He is a former President of the Consensus Organizing Institute (COI) a national non-profit that trains local organizers, develops programs and provides strategic assistance to organizations working on a wide range of community agendas using Consensus Organizing techniques.