At least two layers of support: an anatomy of collective care — Susan Raffo

Susan Raffo
16 min readMay 13, 2021

I remember the first time that I learned about the buddy system as a part of organizing. It was during a five-day training held by Training for Change , maybe 12 or 13 years ago. On the first day, they paired us up with someone to be our buddy. Then they asked us to sit down with our buddies, generally share a bit about ourselves, and then to share two specific…

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Susan Raffo

Thinking about the healing in justice and the justice in healing. www.susanraffo.com