Life Cycle of Organizations w/Raquel Laviña

The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions to take back to your teams.

In this closing episode of season one, we take on the tough topic of the Life Cycle of Organizations with our guest, Raquel Laviña, Consultant, most recently with the Grassroots Power Project.

Resources from this episode:

Transforming Our Organizations, Transforming Ourselves article by Sha Grogan-Brown contains many links to resources that can support organizational culture shifts

When you are leading with other people, try out this somatic practice called CFEEB (Center, Face, Extend, Enter, Blend) together

Rad Ops Workbook - try out these activities with your colleagues

Visit the Rad Ops Resources page

Discussion questions to take to your team:

Questions for our Organizations

How does the purpose of this organization need to pivot under the conditions of rising authoritarianism?

Is this organization we built in previous conditions still the one that is needed in this current moment?

If many organizations may not make it through this period of rising authoritarianism, how can we clearly assess the unique purpose of this organization?