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0.📝 Start here

0.1📝 Welcome to Sapiens First

0.2📝 How the handbook works

0.3📝 Getting involved

1.📝 DNA

1.1🚧 Story

1.2📝 Strategy

1.3📝 Culture

1.4📝 Structure

2.⬜ Go deeper

2.1⬜ Why nonviolence works

2.2⬜ Strategy deep dive

2.3⬜ AI safety deep dive

2.4⬜ The organizer conversation

3.📝 Lead

3.1🚧 Culture in leadership

3.2📝 Strategic planning

3.3🚧 People

3.4🚧 Facilitation

4.⬜ Train others

4.1⬜ Designing an agenda

4.2⬜ Teaching adults

4.3⬜ Role-plays and simulations

4.4⬜ Facilitating a room

4.5⬜ Training trainers

4.6⬜ Logistics and follow-up

5.⬜ Supplemental

5.1⬜ Fundraising

5.2⬜ Interviewing

5.3⬜ Media

5.4⬜ Running for office

Appendices

A.📝 Reference materials

A.1Policies and rubrics

.1✅ Values, red lines & reporting

.2📝 IC expectations rubric

.3📝 DRI expectations rubric

.4📝 PC expectations rubric

.5🚧 Compensation policy

.6✅ Fellowship agreement

.7🚧 Other policies

A.2Templates, agendas, and guides

.1✅ Planning templates

.2🚧 Outreach templates

.3🚧 Tactical meeting agenda

.4🚧 Governance meeting agenda

.5📝 Tech team meeting agenda

.6✅ Running gatherings

.7✅ Planning peaceful actions

.8✅ Starting a local circle

.9✅ Training organizers

.10✅ Organizing conversations

A.3Prompts

.1📝 Project planning prompt

.2📝 Learning prompts

.3🚧 Other prompts

A.4Style guides

.1🚧 Visual style guide

.2🚧 Verbal style guide

.3🚧 Website style guide

B.📝 Further Reading

B.1🚧 Existential risk and AI futures

B.2📝 Privacy and mass surveillance

B.3🚧 Historical movements

B.4📝 Movement best practices

B.5🚧 Holacracy and facilitation

B.6📝 Leadership & development

C.📝 Citations

C.0🚧 Introduction sources

C.1🚧 DNA sources

C.2🚧 Leadership sources

C.3🚧 Staff sources

C.4🚧 Reference-material sources

D.📝 Glossary

E.🚧 Staff

E.0🚧 Beliefs about staff

E.1📝 Expectations

E.2🚧 Compensation

E.3🚧 Professional development

E.4📝 Department-specific guidance

F.📝 Slides

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