Teams. To build a team there needs to be bonding. To build a team of youth organizers there needs to be a bond, a strong healthy relationship between everyone, all members of the team must see themselves as equal. In a youth leadership team you cant act the role of just get in do the work and get out without even knowing or even liking the other people in the team. If in the team people didn’t like each other then the work they do will seem like job type of work and will end up unsatisfied. I know some people who quit being in a leadership team because of that reason. I know some one who was going to quit a team at the RYSE center mainly because of that reason. Going into a facility “doing the work and getting out” does not make a team. It makes a group. A group that can collapse when it is most needed. I’m not saying that everyone needs to be super cool friends with each other but what I am saying is that there needs to be respect and some good relationship. I am a part of the Digital Justice Team in the RYSE center and I believe all of us members within it have a good relationship. I have a very well relationship with just about everyone there. We are in a process of doing a fairly big project and everyone is contributing in it. While in the process of shooting the project there was a problem with one of the members. I’m not completely sure what the problem was but because of it that person had a fit, and I can say it was a problem for all of the team since that person couldn’t handle it very well. Point of this is that building a team is hard and is very necessary for a group especially if you are supposed to work together as a leadership type team, like the DJT (Digital Justice Team)





