The relational meeting is a primary organizing tool used by the

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and other congregation-based community organizing groups including

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and

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– and also often in union organizing. It consists of a one-on-one, face-to-face meeting of two persons lasting at least 30 minutes, where personal topics and stories dealing with values, motivations, self-interest and life are discussed in an often confessional, cathartic sort of manner.Dennis A. Jacobsen, ''Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing'' (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001), Ch. 7, pp. 59-64.

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