As young people engage in campaigns, organizing staff engage them in a distinct cycle of learning that involves analysis, action and reflection. These categories should be considered as overlapping and cyclical—analysis leads to action, action to analysis, and reflection to further analysis—and the outcomes they support are cumulative and overlapping as well. ANALYSIS usually involves exploring the origins and systemic causes of social and political problems, translating those problem into issues, and identifying parties responsible for bringing about desired changes . Analysis builds skills such as researching, planning, critical thinking, strategy development, debate, consensus building, and discussion—all of which are traditional youth development assets. ACTION involves a collective, public activity that confronts decision-makers and pressures them to make a desired change. Action includes a range of activities: speaking at a city council meeting, informational picketing, writing letters to officials, circulating petitions, displaying banners, and holding public demonstrations. REFLECTION is an important component of youth organizing because it fosters personal, intellectual, and spiritual growth. Participants learn to evaluate their strategies, monitor their activities and even gauge their own commitment to changing the problem. Reflection might include journaling, debriefing with peers about an issue or experience, or discussing the effectiveness of a particular event.