Dandelion Model

Our Why: Democracy is grounded in strong communities and even stronger relationships. Healing and rebuilding our societies starts close to home. We believe in our power to grow solidarity, strengthen our relationships and change the dynamic in our communities and our countries through this small group organizing model.

The Basics: We started with a simple idea: by gathering regularly with a small group of friends, we can make room for what really matters. We can make space to be our full selves, share deeply, build trust and resilience and take this energy out into the world. Each meeting starts with sharing deeply from our experience, then making concrete plans to do work (big or small!) to make our communities stronger.

The Who: Anyone can adapt and spread this model. Use the website to ground people in the how and why, and replicate the google doc resources to adapt the model for your use case.