Getting Prepared; Mobilizer Guidelines
by
Phil Bartle, PhD

Module Introduction. 
 
Documents Included in this Getting Prepared Module

 Know Your Goals, what is it that mobilizers wish to achieve; 16k 
 Know Your Target Community,
     social research; how the community functions; 15k 
 Know the Skills You Need, what you need to know how to do; 17k 
 Know the Basic Concepts, 
     what principles and reasoning need to be understood; 18k 
 Outside Resources,
     balancing resources from inside and outside the community. 13k

 
Preparing yourself to be a community mobilizer

 Before you can successfully stimulate self help development in a
 community, you must prepare yourself. You must be clear and 
 knowledgeable about your goals; you must know about your target 
 community; you must have the required skills; you must understand 
 the fundamental concepts of mobilization.

 The first thing to do now is to start a journal. An inexpensive 
 school notebook is OK. You might wish to use four notebooks and 
 title them: 
   (1) Goals and Concepts;
   (2) The Target Community;
   (3) Mobilizing Skills, and
   (4) A Day-to-Day Journal record.
 However you 
 choose to organize yourself, it is important to start making notes 
 and records now. Write with your replacement in mind as your reader.

 This module informs you of the things that you need to get 
 prepared. Do not assume, however, that you can get prepared "once 
 and for all." We mobilizers are continually learning more and more 
 about all the things mentioned in this chapter. It is a never ending 
 process, and we will be doomed to failure if we ever think we know 
 it all.

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Updated: 2003 March 23