Workbook
The Civic Engagement Workbook
A Practical Guide to Showing Up in Your Community, Your Government, and Your Democracy
You do not have to do everything. You do have to do something. Name what that something is.
For the person who cares about their community and wants a written, sustainable plan for showing up — whether they are starting, restarting, or rebuilding after burnout.
The Name It First Experience
Civic engagement does not require running for office. It requires showing up — in specific, sustainable ways available to you, in the community you live in, with the time you have. This workbook maps your values to where your participation belongs. You leave with Your Civic Action Dashboard. The output is not a voter guide. It is a signed plan for how you participate.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What issue, policy, or community need do you care about most — and where did that caring come from?
- What has made civic participation feel distant, complicated, or not for you — and what changed?
- If you could change one thing about how decisions get made in your community, what would it be?
Research basis
Grounded in civic engagement research (Putnam, 2000, Bowling Alone) on the decline of social capital / political efficacy research on the relationship between knowledge, self-efficacy, and sustained participation / and values clarification methods (Schwartz) applied to civic identity.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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