Overview of 5 Facilitated Sessions

Introductory Session. Real Security in Hard Times

Theme: “Forming a Club.”
We have choices in how we respond to the stress of the “great recession,” and we can increase our personal security by joining a Club.

Session 1. How Did We Get Here (And Where Are We?)

Theme: “When the Bubble Bursts.”
Explore “Bubble economics,” the immediate causes of the economic meltdown and the structural problems that limit reform options.

Session 2. Facing Change Together

Theme: “Living in ‘Borrowed Times.’”
Because of economic and ecological shifts, we are not going back to some past model of economic growth. How do we prepare ourselves and our communities for change?

Session 3. Building Real Security

Theme: “We Can Find New Security Together.”
What makes us secure? What can we do together? What can we remember, relearn, revalue, reinvent from an earlier time or from other places?

Session 4. What We’ve Got

Theme: “The Risk Shift.”
Explore both the power of mutual-aid and community-level solutions, and recognize the need for larger scale efforts.

Session 5. Taking Action Together

Theme: “Local Solutions Alone Won’t do the Trick.”
Growing inequality over the past 30 years can be reversed. Meaningful action.