Week 6 Assignment: Individual Reflection on Group Project

Group Project Reflection 1

Learning Objectives:

• Experience working in a group, paying attention to group dynamics, working to establish a group culture of collaboration, sharing work, meeting facilitation, interest in one another’s participation, generative disagreements, and consensus-building.
• Understand what is required to build shared messaging, to develop coalitions, to plan attention-getting actions, and to apply pressure in order to win campaign goals.
• Write effective, understandable campaign messaging in multiple forms (op-eds, memes, flyers, etc.).
• Understand how police and prison abolition efforts are undertaken.
• Understand how law and law enforcement systems are changed through grassroots organizing.

For this assignment, write a 300-word reflection  on how the campaign is going, with a focus on group dynamics and collaboration. This is due October 4. This reflection should consider questions such as:

• How would I describe the group’s culture? Look at this chart Links to an external site. to think about examples of qualities a group’s culture might have. What do I like about it and what would I like to see shift? Are there ways I could help it shift?
• How am I participating in the group? Do I feel like I might be over- or under-participating? How do I feel when I participate? How do I feel after? How would I like to feel when I participate?
• Are there people I wish I could hear more from in the group? How could I help them to participate more?
• Are there any stuck roles emerging in the group that are making workload uneven, or making some people’s presence more dominant or more invisible?
• What lessons am I learning about participating in groups?
• How is group decision-making going? What principles from our readings about consensus decision-making do I see at play?
• How is meeting facilitation going? What tips from our readings on meeting facilitation have been useful? What am I learning about facilitating meetings?