Cover
Copyright
Dedication
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: AWAKENING TO ACTIVISM
PART I THE FAMILY PERSPECTIVE
1 MAKING FAMILY YOUR CAUSE
What Is Family Activism?
Multiple Influences for Multiple Effects
Discovering the Obvious Takes Time
Family Is Most Important to Us
Activists Are People Who Care
PRAXIS
2 PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE FAMILY ACTIVISM
PRINCIPLES THAT GUIDE FAMILY ACTIVISM
View Everyone as Family
Care for Family
You and Your Family Be the Change
Teach Positive Family Power
About Porvida Love
About Family Power
Encourage Vision and Transformation
Advance social transformation through vision and personal change.
About Vision
About Transformation
PRAXIS
3 THE FAMILIA APPROACH
The Five Commitments that Guide the Familia Approach
COMMITMENTS THAT GUIDE THE FAMILIA APPROACH
Living the Familia Approach
Explaining and Illustrating the Five Commitments
Teach Love
Be the Change
Facilitate Connection
Activate Transformation
PRAXIS
4 FAMILY ACTIVISM AND TRANSFORMATION
Organizing Our First Council
The Family Retreat
Developing Our Family Vision
Using the Council to Become More Familia
PRAXIS
PART II TOOLS FOR FAMILY POWER
5 GETTING YOUR ACT TOGETHER
Make the Spirit Connection
Know You Are Porvida
Discovering and Evolving Purpose
Living Your Purpose
Your Personal Success Path
Developing My Action Plan
PRAXIS
6 CREATING FAMILY CONNECTIONS
Conocimiento Is Creating Connection
The Unity Principle
Doing Conocimiento
Good Introduction
Great Questions
Active Listening
Balanced Sharing
Facilitating Group Connection
Reflect on the Sharing
Follow-up
Closing Words
Challenges Doing Conocimiento
Creative Group Conocimiento for Unity Inspiration and Vision
To Build Family Unity
To Inspire Community Commitment
To Inspire Vision
PRAXIS
7 CO-POWERING TO BATTLE EL NO
Our Worst Enemy: EL NO
Transform EL NO
Principles for Co-powering Communications
Patience and Perseverance
Family Activism Practices
PRAXIS
8 LOVE THE CHILDREN
Start Communicating Early
Make Communications Meaningful
Be the Uncle or Aunt for the Many
It’s Never Too Late
PRAXIS
9 LEARN COMMUNICATE AND TEACH
Know the Reason for Your Communication
Learning About Love
Empower by Providing Experiences that Inspire
Create Learning Conversations
Bring Home the Storytellers
Learning to Be an Advocate
PRAXIS
10 BE THE FACILITATOR
Make Meetings Happen!
GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVE FAMILY MEETINGS
Resolutions Sometimes Come from the Youngest
Meetings Can Be Quick
Meetings Can Be Used to Support Transformation
Meetings to Enlist Activist Support
The Challenging Meetings
Serving as a Family Facilitator
Convening with the Talking Stick
The Family Improvement Plan
THE FAMILY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
The Family Council
Councils Require Boldness and Homework
Consider the Inclusion of Spirit
Bringing the Family Together
When Your Best Efforts Don’t Work
Best Practices
WISDOM FOR GREAT COUNCILS
PRAXIS
11 FORMING UNITY CIRCLES
What Is a Unity Circle?
Serve as a Circle Maker
The Traditional Unity Circle Design
UNITY CIRCLE DESIGN
Principles to Guide the Circle Maker
Honoring the Dead to Inspire Our Activism
PRAXIS
PART III MOVING FROM FAMILY TO COMMUNITY POWER
12 CREATING POWERFUL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY GATHERINGS
Creating Family
Unity Circles Create Miracles
The Men’s Council: Time to Feed the Soul
MEN’S COUNCIL: CONSTANTS FOR OUR GATHERINGS
PRAXIS
13 EXPANDING FAMILY ACTION INTO COMMUNITY ACTION
Transforming an Institution by Becoming More Familia
FAMILY ACTIVIST PRACTICES
From Friends to an Activist Family
FAMILY ACTIVIST PRACTICES
Mobilizing for Peace
A Retreat Center for Activists and 20 000 New Voters
PRAXIS
CONCLUSION: PRAXIS AND BLESSINGS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
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