Co-op Maintenance
This is from Geoff Mayer's workshop on maintenance at Institute (2010).
This is from Geoff Mayer's workshop on maintenance at Institute (2010).
Informal commentary on creating simple, accessible budgets for small coops.
An introduction to popular theater and Augusto Boal's "Theater of the Oppressed" (featured in NASCO's Anti-Oppression Action Camp)
The four scenarios focus on staff strategies to member issues: debt and eviction, members making legal threats, members voting as a bloc in their interest, and bad publicity. The scenarios are part of a workshop presented at the 2009 Staff and Managers Conference.
The following approach to facilitation and decision-making outlined in this document is a modified consensus process which came out of the June 2006 NASCO Board meeting after a good deal of discussion and experimentation with different meeting processes. The process outlined below is something of a hybrid, which attempts to combine some of the clarity and formality of Roberts Rules with the participatory and flexible nature of consensus processes.
This handout is from Laird Schaub's workshop on conflict resolution at NASCO Institute (2010).