Introduction to the Mobilization Intervention
 by
Phil Bartle, PhD

 Module Introduction

Documents Included in this Mobilization Module:

   A Mobilization Cycle, the overall process; workshop handout;

   The Mobilization Cycle Explicated, explained step-by-step;

   To be a Mobilizer, what does it take? training handout;

   Unity Organizing, purpose and means to unify a community;

   Eating With Friends, the role of food in empowering communities, and

   Training As Mobilizing, the methodology of using training to mobilize.

   (The illustrations can not be shown here; look on the web page).


Moving a community to take action:

 The empowerment of communities, the promotion of community
 participation, the mobilization cycle, the stimulation of self help,
 social change towards more self reliance, the fight to eliminate
 poverty -- all these form a related set of interventions. The agent
 of these can be variously called animator, facilitator, mobilizer,
 community development officer, change agent or activist. This
 series of training modules for the empowerment of low income
 communities, includes a set of several documents about this
 intervention process.

This series includes:

 Introduction to the
 Mobilization Intervention, this introduction, The Mobilization
 Cycle, a workshop handout, The Mobilization Cycle, explained in more
 detail, The Mobilization Cycle Illustrations, line drawings by
 Julianna Kuruhiira, illustrating each stage of the cycle, To be a
 Mobilizer, a one-page training handout indicating what is needed to
 be a mobilizer, and what a mobilizer does, Unity Organizing,
 explains that communities are not naturally unified, but the
 intervention needs to unite a community in order to make a communal 
 decision, Eating With Friends, describes the role of food in
 empowering communities, Training As Mobilizing, describes the
 special methodology of training that includes organizing as well as
 skill transfer.

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Updated: 2003 May 13