CIRAL Competencies

For each of the six categories or competencies, there should ultimately be ideas (or patterns!!) for Developing, Implementing, Reflecting, Revising, Maintaining... that particular category. This of course suggests a pattern language and under each category, we can list relevant patterns as well as descriptive verbiage (including that for actual activities and tasks).

• Philosophy and Perspective

What philosophies guide the project? And how do we institutionalize and internalize these?

• Community

What activities can we be doing in the short-term to help develop the type of culture within CIRAL that we need to tackle the jobs we've described for ourselves?

• Capacity

Capacity describes the wide range of resources that CIRAL could draw from, including skills; techniques; knowledge; resources (online and otherwise); researching; research, activist, professional networks, among others.

• Processes and Procedures (and other administrative including structure) (This could be called “Institutionalization”) (And structure also!)

• Projects (the particular focus that we determine to apply ourselves towards)

• Relationships (with “outside” groups, the CCBLA, the administration, various non-profits)