We encourage workers not only to explore within our project, but to spread the process beyond its limits, organizing their own groups and networks to spread the skills and methods of democratic organization. When we first start working with a group, we initiate a collaborative process of setting goals, planning the activity, leading discussions, and, later, evaluating its success. The workshops themselves become models of participatory and democratic techniques that can be used in organizing. Once a group is established, we try to sustain a collaborative relationship with them to conduct further education sessions. We also draw on activists to participate in and plan sessions of the democracy schools and other workshops.
Popular education evolves and adapts.
There is no authoritative or pure form of popular education. We are constantly tinkering, questioning, reinventing. Please contact us if you have ideas, experiences, questions you would like to share. We also welcome your response to this short piece on popular education and union democracy. Popular education workshops.