2023 Cooperative Leadership Intensive

2023 Cooperative Leadership Intensive – Curriculum Outline and Goals

Class 1: Orientation Part 1 – Goals

1. 1. Get accustomed to tech, interpretation, and shared tools
   2. Develop shared expectations about program and participation
   3. Introduce cohort members
   4. Introduce CEANYC and its role in NYC’s Solidarity Economy

Class 2: Orientation Part 2 – Goals

1. 1. Begin to develop common language and frameworks to discuss the structure and operations of different kinds of SE enterprises.
   2. Introduce Co-operative Identity, Values, and Principles.
   3. Analyze the Co-operative Principles in-depth.
   4. Introduce sectors of Solidarity Economy (labor, food, housing, culture, finance)
   5. Spotlight the types of enterprises found in the food sector.

Class 3: Power Part 1 – Goals

1. 1. Explore positional and situational power
   2. Analyze how visible, hidden, and invisible power operate within individuals, groups, and various political, social, and economic systems 

Class 4: Power Part 2 – Goals

1. 1. Identify personal habits and tendencies in handling conflict that impact overall group culture i.e. not wanting to make waves, being aggressive about getting a viewpoint across, protection of the individual over the collective.
   2. Review strategies to recognize, understand, and self-regulate personal habits of conflict management.
   3. Explore ways to uphold a culture of safety, respect, and equity in representation of members’ viewpoints enterprise-wide.
   4. Continue exploring the types of enterprises and practices found in SE.

Class 5: Vision Part 1 – Goals

1. 1. Define and demystify the primary characteristics of capitalism .
   2. Understand why the Solidarity Economy movement is not for reforming or ameliorating capitalism.
   3. Explore some concrete examples of how Solidarity Economy has been and can be situated within the context of broader social movements and organizing.

Class 6: Vision Part 2 – Goals

1. 1. Take concepts from the previous sessions and being to ground them in real-world approaches that are applicable to the groups represented in the cohort
   2. Prefigure the process of each member of the cohort crafting their own development strategy for their group. 

Class 7: Organizing Part 1 – Goals

1. 1. Confirm/Affirm awareness across the cohort of how each person involved is plugged into the NYC solidarity economy – What group/model/practices are they each a part of?
   2. Uncover and understand common challenges across the groups represented in the room.
   3. Uncover and understand unique challenges within models and industries represented in the room.
   4. Identify strategic points to intercept challenges at personal, group, and SE-wide levels.
   5. Ensure that monolingual Spanish and English Speakers are working in  groups and talking to each other to not create language segregation. 

Class 8: Organizing Part 2 – Goals

1. 1. Participants gain a more concrete grasp of the support available to them, and the support they can provide, through the cohort and the local SE
   2. Ensure that monolingual Spanish and English Speakers are working in  groups and talking to each other to not create language segregation. 

Class 9: Stewardship Part 1 – Goals

1. 1. Ensure that monolingual Spanish and English Speakers are working in  groups and talking to each other to not create language segregation. 
   2. Confirm/Affirm awareness across the cohort of how each person involved is plugged into the NYC solidarity economy – What group/model/practices are they each a part of?
   3. Uncover and understand the experiences and skills each person brings to the group.
   4. Cohort members see themselves and each other as assets.
   5. Cohort members practice telling the story of their own leadership.
   6. Ensure cohort members are aware of and understand the cooperative values and principles.
   7. Cohort members are able to contextualize their leadership within the cooperative movement.
   8. Ensure cohort members have concrete tools and an understanding of how to use them in order to secure the participation of other members of their groups in carrying forward and integrating ideas and/or lessons from CLI.

Class 10: Stewardship Part 2 – Goals

1. 1. Ensure that monolingual Spanish and English Speakers are working in  groups and talking to each other to not create language segregation. 
   2. Follow up on and deepen conversation around economic ties between groups, moving toward concrete commitments to more cooperation among cooperatives.
   3. Carve out time for a communications primer with guest speaker, Belén.
   4. Identify where cohort members have energy and enthusiasm to engage in collaborative projects over the long term – this will enable us to create working groups for June.

Class 11: Stewardship Part 3 – Goals

1. 1. Ensure that monolingual Spanish and English Speakers are working in  groups and talking to each other to not create language segregation. 
   2. Begin a phase of work defining/planning.
   3. Make sure members have clear roles and to participate in the work they want to see done in the spirit of self-help and self-responsibility.
   4. Get to clear next steps and dates.
   5. Coordinate with Ali to clarify CEANYC’s internal capacity to support the outcomes.
   6. Clarify ways to continue working as a cohort. 

Class 12: Stewardship Part 4 – Goals

1. 1. Ensure that monolingual Spanish and English Speakers are working in  groups and talking to each other to not create language segregation. 
   2. Review what we’ve done for the entirety of CLI.
   3. Class content
   4. Self-study of SE models and practices
   5. Make sure people feel clear about the content and understand ways they can bring it back to their group.
   6. Celebrate social bonds and time spent together