Community | TRUST THE PEOPLE

TRUST THE PEOPLE HAVE PUT TOGETHER A FREE EDUCATION COURSE THAT WILL HELP YOU WORK WITH OTHERS TO SHAPE A COMPASSIONATE SOCIETY, WHICH SERVES THE NEEDS OF ALL.

COURSE BEGINS OCT 26 - TICKET LINK ON PROGRAMME PAGE - NEXT COURSE FEB 2021

TRUST THE PEOPLE IS A MOVEMENT OF COMMUNITY BUILDERS - OPEN TO EVERYONE -SHARING DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRATIC TOOLS TO SUPPORT LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN DEALING WITH GLOBAL CRISES.

WE ARE BUILDING A REAL DEMOCRACY FROM THE BOTTOM UP.

At the core of the movement is an education course that contains five modules: Personal Processing, Group Support, Engaging Communities, Community Assemblies & Community Organising. All of these modules are about trying to spread the knowledge and the skills needed to reclaim community power and transform our society into a real democracy.

Trust The People is a movement that began in Extinction Rebellion, but which now extends far beyond and is committed to helping build a genuine democracy from the bottom up.

Testimonial on the power of people's asssemblies, a deliberative democratic tool central to Trust the People:

”A teacher came up to me afterwards, tearing up, she explained that two girls had severe mental health issues. I panicked. One was suicidal and another had been mute for 2 years. But both had stood up at the end of the assembly to feed back from their groups. It was the first time one had spoken for 2 years and the whole assembly applauded.”- Laura Baldwin, XR Dorset

WE ARE THE CHANGE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.

ANOTHER FUTURE IS POSSIBLE.

PERSONAL PROCESSING

GROUP

SUPPORT

COMMUNITY ORGANISING

ENGAGING COMMUNITIES

COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIES

THE COURSE HAS BEEN CREATED WITH THE INTENTION THAT EACH MODULE CAN BE REVISITED WHEN NECESSARY AND NEEDED. THE CONTENT IS FREE AND ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL.

WHAT PROMPTED THE CREATION OF THIS COURSE?

Many people have come together to co-create this course, and we have done so because we believe that we all deserve to be part of a society that prioritises the needs and well-being of every last one of us. We know that currently in our society there is widespread inequality and that people are being left behind: despite the UK being one of the world’s largest economies, over one fifth of the population live in poverty.1 And this is in the country that has seen the number of billionaires almost double in the past ten years. 2 Wealth inequality is not our only problem: the UK is also blighted by systemic racism and discrimination. In all levels of society, the colour of your skin impacts your opportunities. Then, there is the terrifying reality that we are facing a climate and ecological emergency. It is clear that the system we have built in the UK is not fit for purpose. 3