One on One Meeting with Community Organizer Michael Jacoby Brown

Want to improve your skill at community outreach and community engagement? This video describes the essential building block of community outreach: the "one on one" conversation, the best way recruit and develop leaders in a community-based organization. This short video shows the basics of how to approach someone, listen to them effectively and find out "what makes them tick" --- so they can use their own gifts and play an effective role in your community organization. This video is from a training session Brown led for a faith-based organization, and includes a demonstration of how to hold this conversation. Michael Jacoby Brown has over thirty years of experience as a community organizer, non-profit executive director, trainer, and consultant with expertise in community outreach, community organizing training, social justice work and advising labor, religious, government, and health organizations. Michael Jacoby Brown has trained hundreds of labor and community organizers who have gone on to lead grassroots campaigns and organizations. Brown is the author of Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World - a grassroots organizing training manual. This channel is a place to see Michael J. Brown in action, hear his work and learn from his experience in community organizing.