The relational meeting is a primary organizing tool used by the
Industrial Areas Foundation
The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a national community organizing network established in 1940 by Saul Alinsky, Roman Catholic Bishop Bernard James Sheil and businessman and founder of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' Marshall Field III. The IAF p ...
and other
congregation-based community organizing groups including
Gamaliel Foundation and
PICO National Network – 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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