Listening Tour Team

This page is for people learning about Enough Should Be Enough. It provides info on how to attend an in-person team launch, how to register your team, and a sample team invitation. Once teams are registered and trained, you will receive additional tools and resources for having conversations, connecting with other teams once a month, and the other components outlined below. 

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

• Invite 5-10 people to form your listening tour team

• Attend an in-person launch event (if you live in Wake, Durham, Mecklenburg or Guilford county) or fill out this form to register your team (if you live outside those counties)

• If you don't have a team but want to join, please fill out this form

COMPONENTS

1. Listening tour team:

   • 5-10 people

2. “The NC We Deserve” conversations:

   • Over the course of about 23 weeks, each team will have about 500 conversations and recruit new volunteers to join teams from those conversations

3. Research visits, “negotiation” & public action planning:

   • As issues emerge, either because they emerge as political events unfold around us or from listening in our conversations, team members will conduct visits with local elected officials

   • In August, we will hold a statewide candidate Town Hall to present our Working People’s agenda and decide which candidates we want to negotiate with

WHY THE LISTENING TOUR?

In these one-to-one conversations and house visits (you’ll have a guide, a list of questions, and a way to keep notes), teams will discover how we’re being impacted by these attacks, not only how we feel about how they fall on others. All of us rely on the public good (schools, wages, healthcare, food, roads, childcare, eldercare). We won’t just ask about what’s wrong–we’ll also find out what changes people most hope to see in their county and the state. We’ll learn how to lead others by asking questions, and how to take responsibility for turning personal stories into an agenda for action. When survey teams are working in the same area, we’ll be able to share what we’ve discovered with each other, as we do during a statewide debrief call. 

WHY RESEARCH VISITS

Too often, when current events unfold at the federal level, it feels like there’s so little we can do to influence anything. But for many federal policies, their impacts can be amplified or mitigated by actions taken by county commissioners, city council members, or state legislators. Research visits make it possible for constituents to sit face-to-face with the people working to represent them, and help us learn about possible local solutions to federal problems.

SAMPLE TEAM INVITATION

Subject: Invitation to Join our Survey Team

Dear ____, 

I’m writing with an invitation to join a team that is convening to take action together in 2026. 

As rising authoritarianism takes hold in our national and state politics, we see the same patterns repeated: the targeting of immigrants and poor families, the dismantling of the public good through cuts to schools, healthcare, SNAP, and more, and the sowing of division through fear and cruelty. 

This is not about politics as usual

This journey will involve four key steps:

1. Listening through Conversations

   • We will begin by learning how to have conversations and house visits. Through these trainings, you will learn how to engage people in our chosen turf in conversations about how the attacks fueled by rising authoritarianism are showing up in and impacting our lives. We will also listen to people’s dreams for the North Carolina we all deserve.

2. Research Visits

   • As we have these conversations, it is possible that issues will emerge, either from the conversations themselves or unfolding news events. Teams can conduct visits to local elected officials to find out where they stand on these issues.

3. A Working People’s Agenda

   • From the conversations, we will work over time to identify working people’s priorities to form a political agenda. This agenda will represent policy changes we want to see, but will also set forth our vision for the future of North Carolina.
     

4. Statewide Candidate Town Hall

   • The Statewide Candidate Town Hall will be an opportunity to use the agenda we worked to form by listening to negotiate with people who want our votes.
     

More information about training dates, team assignments, and how to sign up will be shared soon. We hope you will consider being part of this journey.

With hope,
 [Your Name]