Notes from Visioning Workshop

After our completion ceremony, we closed out the year with a reflection and visioning workshop designed and facilitated by the 2019/20 cohort.

Below find the notes from the workshop.

Just Transition Framework 

Framework (From the Good Work Institute via Movement Generation)

“Just Transition is a national framework for advancing systems change in our society that was articulated by the Oakland-based organization Movement Generation. At Good Work Institute, we have designed our work to align with the following five Just Transition principles:

  1. Advancing ecological growth

  2. Democratizing communities, wealth, and the workplace

  3. Driving racial justice and social equity

  4. Relocalizing most production and consumption

  5. Retaining and restoring cultures and traditions”

Place Corps is working to become more aligned with the Just Transition framework. As part of the workshop, we explored ways in which Place Corps has embodied (plus) and where there is room for Place Corps to improve and grow to more fully embody each principle of the Just Transition (delta).

Advancing ecological restoration:

  • Plus— tree planting 

  • Delta— non-renewable energy sourcing for the Place Corps cooperative house

Democratizing communities, wealth and the workplace:

  • Plus— practicing shared leadership in the Place Corps cooperative house

  • Delta— challenging decision making web between cohort and Place Corps leadership

Driving racial justice and social equity:

  • Plus— offering immense aid and scholarships for folks to join the cohort

  • Delta— mostly white-presenting education team doesn’t represent the identities of the cohort

Relocalizing most production and consumption:

  • Plus— sourcing almost all produce and animal products locally

  • Delta— still reliant out of the region farms for food during winter months

Retaining and restoring cultures and traditions:

  • Plus— creating space in curriculum to invite cohort members to explore their own lineages

  • Delta— no relationship with the Mohican peoples whose land we now call home

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