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Building an army of facilitators with Extinction Rebellion
abstract
In this year dubbed #TryEverything2020, the revolution will be facilitated. Facilitation practices have the ability to create a trajectory from self-discovery to relational transformation to community self-governance to the achievement of democracy at the scale of society—if only there were enough facilitators to meet the need! In this panel, get to know the movement known as Extinction Rebellion, learn how it was inspired by g0v, and marvel at the scale of training going into building an army of facilitators.
Isabel Hou is co-founder of “g0v international ”, the taskforce co-organized the 1st Facing the Ocean Hack and Meet and executive committee member of “g0v Jothon”, which organize the g0v Hackthon every other month. Isabel is also a seasoned attorney focusing on technological innovation and intellectual property law and has served as a legal counsel for various government programs, NGOs, and open source/culture communities in Taiwan since 2000.
Liz Barry is motivated by the potential of people working together humanely at scale. She co-founded the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science in which thousands of people around the world operate as a research collaborative in pursuit of local environmental health justice. She co-founded TreeKIT where she developed methods used by thousands of New Yorkers to map every street tree in the 5 boroughs—over half a million, through NYC Parks Department Trees Count! program. She serves as advisor to the Future Democracy Hub at Extinction Rebellion, as founding board member of the Polis nonprofit organization and as a “nobody” at g0v (pronounced “gov zero”). Her work on these and other collective intelligence initiatives have received extensive press including the New York Times, AP, CNN, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Wired, and NPR’s This American Life.