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The four areas of learning in a Democracy Learning Lab include culture, democratic organizing & development, group dynamics, and personal development. The resources below are only a sample of what could be used in a Democracy Learning Lab. Sponsoring organizations, assigned trainers, and participants will select the resources they will use for a particular Lab.
| Learning
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CULTURE
Understanding how culture is a driving force of how people develop, live and relate |
| Expert Writings | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Chapter 8
By Jonathan Haidt AMERICAN NATIONS: A History of Eleven Rival Regional Cultures Of North America By Colin Woodard By Joseph Henrich |
| GDProject | Chapter 1 of the GD Workbook |
| Learning
Materials |
DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Building regional and national networks |
| Expert Writings | Ernesto Cortes
GDProject collection of articles and video lectures (GDWorkbook: Ch 6) Memoirs of A Change Agent: T-groups, Organization Development, and Social Justice By Robert Crosby The Populist Moment: a short history Introduction” to the Populist Moment By Lawrence Goodwyn |
| Videos | Bending the Arc, on Netflix |
| Learning
Materials |
GROUP DYNAMICS
How groups work well & don’t work well |
| Expert Writings | Elinor Ostrom
By Robert Crosby PROSOCIAL: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, & Collaborative Groups |
| GDProject | GDWorkbook: Chs 1 & 7
“The Two First Things in Building Collective Action” Face-to-Face Communication and the Unexplored Potential of Cooperation |
| Memoirs | It’s Every Monkey for Themselves: A true story of sex love, and lies in the Jungle
By Vanessa Wood |
| Movies/TV Series | The Bear on Hulu |
| Videos | Bending the Arc, on Netflix |
| Learning
Materials |
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
How we are conditioned and how we can and can’t change our conditioning |
| Expert Writings | Immunity-to-Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
By Lisa Lahey & Robert Kegan |
| Fiction | The Right Mistake
By Walter Mosley |
| Memoirs | Taming the Jaguar: transforming fear into action
and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man By John Perkins |
| Learning
Materials |
PRACTICE
Guides for developing and embodying core democratic dispositions and skills |
| Expert Writings | Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice
By Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, & William M. Snyder By Robert Crosby |
| GDProject | The Legendary “Pink Paper”
GDWorkbook: Ch 2 |
| Movies/TV Series | The Bear on Hulu |
| Videos | Roosevelt Jazz at Essentially Ellington 2019 |
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Developed by Sofi.coop & Yon design
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