Political Topic Review and Community Project Workshop
Monthly Perth Meetings - Currently Suspended Pending a Format Review
If you are in the city of Perth in Western Australia, please join us for our monthly meeting.
If you are in another location, we will soon be streaming online. You can also contact us to start your own Politify.org event in your city or town.
Look out for our post meeting reviews in our News and Articles section.
Meeting Purpose:
- To promote Politify.org as a social action organisation.
- To promote the development of the online Politify.org platform which is now between 80 and 90% complete.
- To raise awareness of social and political topics being discussed within our community.
- To encourage practical action towards the development of our community projects.
- To create content for Politify.org that can be shared out to our social media network as a part of the marketing of the Politify.org mission.
Politify.org staff, volunteers and supporters are a group of people dedicated to the task of bringing good reasoning practices to the political decision making process; putting community benefit first and foremost ahead of other concerns. In these meetings we have a look at various social and political topics using a video as a discussion starter. Videos are chosen to highlight an issue of interest. From this video we look at the ideas that need to be observed in order to be applying good reasoning. We discuss what good reasoning might look like, what behaviours, ideas and thought patterns might take a person away from a path of good reasoning and we look at what it might take to form community based decisions in response to the highlighted issues. We then break out into community project workshops where we seek to turn our good reasoning into action that can create real social and political change.
Date and Time:
Currently operating on the second Wednesday of every month.
6:30pm to 10pm
Location:
Crowd HQ
1240 Albany Hwy, Cannington WA 6107
Program:
- Opening at 6:30pm - Volunteers arrive by 6:30pm to help with setup
- Starting at 7pm
- Introduction - 15min
- Video Watching - 30 to 45 minutes
- Structured Video Discussion - 30min
- 5 minute transition
- Community Project Planning and Workshopping - 30min
- Close with Inspirational and Motivational structures to empower action between meetings - 15min
- 9:20 to 9:30pm finish
- Volunteer pack-down and out by 10pm
Requested Mindset:
Politify.org is a politically neutral platform in development. The Politify.org organisation and events are also intended to be politically neutral. We welcome people from all social and political backgrounds but to have our live events be successful we encourage the following:
- Come prepared to challenge your own assumptions, to seek out truth (whatever that may be), to turn beliefs into knowledge and to seek objectivity and intellectual integrity.
- Come prepared to separate your ideas, beliefs and opinions from your sense of self. If you hold onto an idea and think of it as a part of your identity, if it is then challenged or debated, you may feel personally confronted by this. It is expected that you will be more comfortable in the conversation if you can maintain a degree of intellectual detachment when discussing political and social topics.
- Come prepared to be good to each other, to be emotionally generous and to be encouraging.
- Stay clear of political and social practices, discussion and expression that would unfairly alienate, discriminate, make others wrong or vilify individuals or groups.
- Even if you disagree with the views of another, the aim is not to shut them down or to prevent them from expressing themselves, your aim should be to seek out any valid point they may have within their communication, to acknowledge this and to build upon it.
Disclaimer: Politify is a neutral platform created to allow anyone to share their ideas and to debate those ideas. Views expressed by Employees, Directors, Volunteers, Authors, Sponsors and/or Affiliates of Politify are their own views shared with equal opportunity using the Politify network. The veiws expressed are in no way indicative of any official policy of Politify as an organisation.
For the benefit of those attending any live event, anyone that fails to operate in a manner that is civil and/or anyone that compromises the objective, intellectually detached mode of discussion and debate, may be asked to leave. It will be up to those present to decide if you will be invited to return again at a future time.
You may be photographed, or be audio and/or video recorded during the event. By attending, you agree to allow the use of these recordings for Politify.org marketing purposes.
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