Nov 21, 2011 | Engaging New Activists, Featured, Sustaining Activism, Workshop Reports
I had a fun time at the Commonground Festival, enjoying the beautiful environment, lovely music and friendly folks. I also ran a short workshop on ‘Getting Started in Activism’. It was a great discussion and it made me think a lot about what it takes for people to get...
Nov 7, 2011 | Featured, Melbourne Campaigners' Network, Online Campaigning, Workshop Reports
The second Melbourne Campaigner’s Network covered all things online campaigning, with a talk from Oxfam Australia’s Digital Campaigns Coordinator Tim Norton. In my last post I spoke about identifying audiences, aims, objectives and briefly touched on...
Oct 11, 2011 | Melbourne Campaigners' Network, Story-based Strategy, Workshop Reports
The Melbourne Campaigners’ Network got off to a great start last Thursday with the first gathering attracting a diverse group of over twenty activists, campaigners and organisers. The focus of the night was an introduction to story-based strategy. We ran through some...
Sep 22, 2011 | Facilitation, Workshop Reports
On the 7th September I participated in the One Day Wonder held at Abbotsford Convent. The One Day Wonder is a learning event created by, with and for facilitators and community engagement practitioners, or anyone who organises group meetings. Participants came from a...
Sep 8, 2011 | Facilitation, Group Process, Workshop Reports
The Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair took place in August at the Abbotsford Convent. There were stalls from a range of great groups, kid’s play space, handmade bunnies, and awesome Activist-Maisy colouring books (I may have been preoccupied by the kid-centric stuff as my...
Sep 6, 2011 | Community Organising, Workshop Reports
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of training and mentoring around community organising theory and practices. I find this area really energising – I get to see people grasp the sense that they can have collective power, take on leadership and win significant change. In...
