The Membership Committee is hosting skill-building trainings for all DSA members to have the tools and capacities to organize working-class people. Check out  the trainings held on the fourth Sunday of each month at 4pm. Each training will cover important concepts and tools and will be interactive. We'll record the trainings and share the slides with people who sign up.

Strategic Campaigns - January 23

Description: Walk through the process of how to best choose and execute campaigns that will build long-term power for Y/DSA & the working class.  

What you will take from it: Questions to ask when planning a campaign and tools to assess your campaign plan for maximum impact.

Power Mapping 101 - RESCHEDULED - March 17 at 7pm

Description: How do you move your decision-maker to concede to your demand? Map where their power and relationships. In this training, you’ll learn how to use research and relationships to build a power map and move your target.

What you will take from it: A solid understanding of what power mapping is and the template / framework by which you can move forward to power map your specific target.

Effective Meetings - March 27 at 4pm

Description: Meetings are a tactic we use to strengthen effective campaigns and to increase our members’ ownership over the work. This training will help members structure meetings to support our on-the-ground organizing, facilitate political and strategic discussion, and engage attendees during and after the meeting.

What you will take from it: Principles of what makes for good meetings & concrete and anti-oppressive best practices

Structured Organizing Conversations - April 24 at 4pm

Description: Looking to engage your members more deeply in DSA? A training on how to ask individuals to get more involved in our work and take on roles of responsibility.

What you will take from it: The purpose and six steps of an organizing conversation and the ability to see it modeled and practice it yourself