Basebuilding is power building because it shifts or creates space to co-produce knowledge and builds and amplifies a shared critical consciousness that leads to mobilizing for change.
Basebuilding is set of strategies to support community members to be in relationship with one another, invest in each other’s leadership, share common identity shaped by similar experiences, and strategize solutions.
Basebuilding brings leadership development, developing communities, and deepening skills to a community—the organizing muscle, literally and figuratively.
Stories from the "base" or building community power through stories helps to shift or transform the public narrative.
Base-building sustains community power building and transformation within a community.