Plan to Win

Strong social movements start from one-to-one relationships. Plan to Win convenes the Melbourne Campaigner’s Network – regular gatherings of activists, campaigners and organisers to learn together. These may take the form of a film night, campaign case study, discussion of a featured article or book, report-back from training or travel, or short skills-based session. The emphasis is on networking, exchanging ideas, and discovering new approaches which can be applied to campaigns.

Read updates and check out upcoming events as part of the Melbourne Campaigner’s Network.

Past sessions:

• Story-based campaign strategy
• Online campaigning
• Campaign case study: 100% Renewables
• Campaign updates
• Art and Campaigning (co-presented with Arena Project Space)

What are people saying about the Melbourne Campaigners’ Network?

Some feedback from past sessions:

• Fantastic insightful and inspiring night – thanks to the speakers and organisers as well as the audience with the thought provoking discussion afterwards.
• Oh hooray for Melbourne Campaigners Network! What a ripper evening that Art and Campaigning Forum was.
• Excellent networking opportunity.
• Story-based strategy info was great! Made me think in a new way. Nice to have it linked to current Australian examples and political context too.
• What was good and useful? Tim’s ideas, tips, responsiveness. Clear concise experienced communication!
• Great presentation – many new ideas!
• MCN is a great initiative, please keep it up!

Melbourne Campaigners’ Network in 2012

This network is based on the interests and contributions of participants. Here are some of the topics suggested so far through evaluation forms at the first two MCN events:

• Theories of change
• Campaign case studies
• Coalition-building
• Activist support and wellbeing, sustaining activism
• Community organising and personal narrative
• Activating the inactive
• Campaign communications eg PR, media, branding
• Brian Martin’s “Backfire model”
• Using social media
• Event organising
• Winning!

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• Dimity Hawkins: fantastic insightful and inspiring night – thanks to the speakers and organisers as well as the audience with the thought provoking discussion afterwards.
• Kirsten Blair: oh hooray for Melbourne Campaigners Network! what a ripper evening that Art and Campaigning Forum was. Thank you to all involved – bless this town for its creative, committed, thoughtful and righteous peeps.
• Nicola Paris: great work. what a great line up of folks… I loved the reflections of everyone there.