Workshop program
Workshop program
There will be a variety of excellent workshops across the weekend. The exact timetabling is still being developed , but to give you an idea of what will be on offer, check out the workshop abstracts below.
This skillshare will be a structured learning program, with a proportion of flexible workshops for participants to select from one of two workshop sessions to attend. This will guarantee that all participants are given a choice towards developing their own program. There will be two tiers of learning, introductory and intermediate, across the weekend.
We also allow some time for 'open space' each day for freeform workshops to evolve, and give people some free time to enjoy the Aldinga environment.
Friday Night
A relaxed evening to warm into the venue. It will give us a chance to get to know one another, and create a special vision gallery together.
From 4pm arrive, unpack, set up and debrief. Then a walk to the beach at 5pm for a swim and icebreaker games (led by Michael, Elise and James), and back to camp for a veggie BBQ dinner and some documentaries.
Saturday
If arriving Saturday morning registration will take place between 8.30am and 9am.
The skillshare program will start with a plenary session at 9am.
PLENARY:
Keynote address
Saturday Workshops
New campaigns, articulating values, envisioning success and mapping the campaign
Abstract: This workshop addresses important issues of campaign planning as a way of envisioning success, building group cohesion and resonating with widely held social values.
Facilitator: Aidan Ricketts
The Big Picture continued
Abstract: Are we involved in individual issues, or are they connected and interconnected? This workshop will boldly attempt to look at the many “challenges” faced by our economy, our society, our environment and our little planet and try to develop a coherent understanding of our individual contributions to 'The Big Picture'.
Facilitator: Douglas McCarty
From minority to mainstream – a rank and rile strategy for changing the world
Abstract: Alongside the need to change how people think, is the question of building the confidence to act in accordance with their changed beliefs and the effectiveness of those actions. This needs to go beyond individual action to engagement with and use of the power structures in our society – ideally from within. This workshop will explore how might that be done?
Facilitator: Douglas McCarty
Strategic thinking expanded and how to create an effective campaign
Abstract: Campaigning is fairly straight forward right? But what are the tools, tactics and strategies which form an effective campaign? How do you go about developing a campaign? This session will introduce you to the basic steps needed when developing a campaign.
Facilitator: Peter Owen
Delivering the message
Abstract: The first 30 seconds of conversation are crucial to delivering a message. This short workshop aims to have its participants explore different methods of explaining their personal choices to others. It will introduce various conversational tactics and allow you to practice with other participants, whilst having a bit of fun along the way.
Facilitator: Matt Kasprzak and Flik
Permaculture design
Abstract: Permaculture is a system of design for sustainable human settlements, based on patterns in nature and traditional cultures. This is an interactive workshop introducing the ethics and principles of permaculture design, and strategies to apply these in your home and community, in an urban environment.
Facilitator: Kim Hill
Non violent direct action, the integration of NVDA as a component strategy
Abstract: The principle of non violence; blockade devices, strategic arrestable actions, mass arrest. Effective affinity groups; integration with whole of campaign. This is a workshop about NVDA, what it is and how it can be most effectively employed in a campaign.
Facilitator: Aidan Ricketts
Advanced NVDA: police liason, de-escalation and damage control
Abstract: This workshop examines some of the more complex challenges that arise once NVDA strategies are in full swing.
Facilitator: Aidan Ricketts
Creative facilitation (how to run a workshop)
Abstract: We learn more effectively, and have more fun, when we are actively involved in learning, rather than simply being presented with information. This is workshop on how to run a workshop. Create an effective learning environment, use creative processes for group learning, engage with different learning styles. Games for introductions, raising group energy, building trust and learning concepts, for large and small groups. Warning: session may contain ball games and animal noises.
Facilitator: Kim Hill
The ABCs of being a better activists
Abstract: The workshop will explain the latest in science about trying to move people and trying to convince them. The primary source of this content is based on the book 'To Sell is Human' by Dan Pink and 'The Debunking Handbook' - http://www.skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-available-download.html The session will be partly a powerpoint presentation, with some interactive elements and hopefully examples via some play/enactments.
Facilitator Michael Kubler
How to set-up a worker's co-operative.
Abstract: We are a collective in the process of starting a worker's co-operative coffee house in the Adelaide CBD. What is a worker's co-op? It's simply a business which is democratically controlled and owned by the workers. Any business can be a co-operative and we think there are few legitimate reasons why most, if not all businesses shouldn't be co-operatives. Democracy should not be left at the doorstep when we go to work. We hope you will come along to our workshop to hear how we are progressing. There are opportunities to join as a worker-owner, supporter and investor. Equally important, we want to share what resources we have and the steps we have followed for you to open your own independent and autonomous co-op.
Facilitator: Samuel Shetler
Sunday Workshops
Corporate campaigning: messages for activating the ethical and the less than ethical
Abstract: This workshop will examine the various kinds of effective corporate or anti-corporate campaigns that can be waged, ranging from consumer led strategies through to ethical and non ethical investors. How do we convince non ethical investors to shift? Risk is the answer.
Facilitator: Aidan Ricketts
Building grassroots movements
Abstract: Building a grassroots organisation, maintaining volunteer pathways and support as well as chatting about working in alliances, youth leadership and frontline organising eg. Pt Augusta. This workshop will include aspects of growing a grassroots movement, action groups across a state and nationally - including aspects about structure, decision making and support; frontline campaigning - working in alliance & moving allies/non allies; volunteer management, mentoring and pathways as an organisation and as activists; field organising - organising large scale events/campaigns eg. Rally for Solar/Repower Port Augusta; youth leadership; communicating climate change - values based; advocacy; messaging - positive, solutions based (linking anti-coal with renewables for example)
Facilitators: Leonora Herweijer & Daniel Lynch
Be your own Media Mogul - how to break into the 24 hour news cycle
This workshop will examine the following topics :
* How the mainstream media works.
* What makes a news story.
* How to prepare a media release.
* What cameras to use.
* Social media.
* Facing up to a hostile media conference.
Participants in the workshop will have to prepare their own media releases, and be prepared to take part in a live media conference which will be recorded on video. During the interactive session, course participants will divide into small groups of 5 or 6 and be given 15 minutes to prepare a media release from information supplied to them.
They will appoint a group leader who will read out the media release and then respond to intense questioning from the floor.
Facilitation: Chris Warren and John Maguire
Social media: the things you need to know
Abstract: To come
Workshop facilitator: Noriko Wynn
Public Narrative - Story telling to move others to action.
Abstract: Storytelling is an ancient powerful method of communication. Crafting a narrative that motivates people to action is one of the most important aspects of any type of leadership, campaign, or advocacy work. Developed by Marshall Ganz and honed over years in the field, public narrative is the values-based practice of storytelling. In this workshop, participants will work in pairs and small groups to learn some basics about how to tell a more powerful story using voice, body language, visual imagery, and improvisation experiential exercises.
Workshop facilitator: Tammy-Jo Sutton
Deep Green Resistance
Abstract: Industrial civilization is not sustainable, and is threatening to destroy every living being on Earth. Deep Green Resistance is a strategy to stop the destruction. The goal of DGR is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. DGR advocates for the dismantling of industrial infrastructure, and rebuilding just and sustainable human communities. To be effective as activists, our work needs to be strategic and integrated. The session will cover theory, strategy, and security culture.
Facilitator: Kim Hill
Are you being greenwashed?
Abstract: How corporate interests co-opt and neutralise environmental activism for their own benefit. Corporations sell green products, lifestyle change, energy efficiency, renewables, funding, eco-jobs, and alliances, and environmentalists are the customers. Are you being effective, or have you been sold?
Facilitator: Kim Hill
Sustainable activism
Abstract: Many people devote their time and energy to some form of activism – acting with focused passion to bring about positive environmental and social justice change. That focused passion is essential motivating energy but it can also contribute to burnout, a state of psychological and/or physical exhaustion. Every year committed activists suffer and drop out of activism because they have burnt out. This workshop will explore what the symptoms of burnout are and how to identify them in ourselves and in our friends. Experience guided relaxation, reflect upon your life and help reaffirm why we do what we do.
Facilitator: Tammy-Jo Sutton
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Nature Adventures
Snorkeling
There are 2 snorkeling options:
Time spent in water = 45 mins – 1 hour.
Aldinga Scrub Bush Walk
For those who do not feel like snorkeling, there will be a bush walk lead by the Friends of Aldinga Scrub.
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There will be a variety of excellent workshops across the weekend. The exact timetabling is still being developed , but to give you an idea of what will be on offer, check out the workshop abstracts below.
This skillshare will be a structured learning program, with a proportion of flexible workshops for participants to select from one of two workshop sessions to attend. This will guarantee that all participants are given a choice towards developing their own program. There will be two tiers of learning, introductory and intermediate, across the weekend.
We also allow some time for 'open space' each day for freeform workshops to evolve, and give people some free time to enjoy the Aldinga environment.
Friday Night
A relaxed evening to warm into the venue. It will give us a chance to get to know one another, and create a special vision gallery together.
From 4pm arrive, unpack, set up and debrief. Then a walk to the beach at 5pm for a swim and icebreaker games (led by Michael, Elise and James), and back to camp for a veggie BBQ dinner and some documentaries.
Saturday
If arriving Saturday morning registration will take place between 8.30am and 9am.
The skillshare program will start with a plenary session at 9am.
PLENARY:
Keynote address
-
'Integrating the elements of successful activism,
campaigns as complex adaptive systems' -
Aidan Ricketts - 'The Big Picture' – Doug McCarty
- 'The importance of strategic thinking' – Peter Owen
Saturday Workshops
New campaigns, articulating values, envisioning success and mapping the campaign
Abstract: This workshop addresses important issues of campaign planning as a way of envisioning success, building group cohesion and resonating with widely held social values.
Facilitator: Aidan Ricketts
The Big Picture continued
Abstract: Are we involved in individual issues, or are they connected and interconnected? This workshop will boldly attempt to look at the many “challenges” faced by our economy, our society, our environment and our little planet and try to develop a coherent understanding of our individual contributions to 'The Big Picture'.
Facilitator: Douglas McCarty
From minority to mainstream – a rank and rile strategy for changing the world
Abstract: Alongside the need to change how people think, is the question of building the confidence to act in accordance with their changed beliefs and the effectiveness of those actions. This needs to go beyond individual action to engagement with and use of the power structures in our society – ideally from within. This workshop will explore how might that be done?
Facilitator: Douglas McCarty
Strategic thinking expanded and how to create an effective campaign
Abstract: Campaigning is fairly straight forward right? But what are the tools, tactics and strategies which form an effective campaign? How do you go about developing a campaign? This session will introduce you to the basic steps needed when developing a campaign.
Facilitator: Peter Owen
Delivering the message
Abstract: The first 30 seconds of conversation are crucial to delivering a message. This short workshop aims to have its participants explore different methods of explaining their personal choices to others. It will introduce various conversational tactics and allow you to practice with other participants, whilst having a bit of fun along the way.
Facilitator: Matt Kasprzak and Flik
Permaculture design
Abstract: Permaculture is a system of design for sustainable human settlements, based on patterns in nature and traditional cultures. This is an interactive workshop introducing the ethics and principles of permaculture design, and strategies to apply these in your home and community, in an urban environment.
Facilitator: Kim Hill
Non violent direct action, the integration of NVDA as a component strategy
Abstract: The principle of non violence; blockade devices, strategic arrestable actions, mass arrest. Effective affinity groups; integration with whole of campaign. This is a workshop about NVDA, what it is and how it can be most effectively employed in a campaign.
Facilitator: Aidan Ricketts
Advanced NVDA: police liason, de-escalation and damage control
Abstract: This workshop examines some of the more complex challenges that arise once NVDA strategies are in full swing.
Facilitator: Aidan Ricketts
Creative facilitation (how to run a workshop)
Abstract: We learn more effectively, and have more fun, when we are actively involved in learning, rather than simply being presented with information. This is workshop on how to run a workshop. Create an effective learning environment, use creative processes for group learning, engage with different learning styles. Games for introductions, raising group energy, building trust and learning concepts, for large and small groups. Warning: session may contain ball games and animal noises.
Facilitator: Kim Hill
The ABCs of being a better activists
Abstract: The workshop will explain the latest in science about trying to move people and trying to convince them. The primary source of this content is based on the book 'To Sell is Human' by Dan Pink and 'The Debunking Handbook' - http://www.skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-available-download.html The session will be partly a powerpoint presentation, with some interactive elements and hopefully examples via some play/enactments.
Facilitator Michael Kubler
How to set-up a worker's co-operative.
Abstract: We are a collective in the process of starting a worker's co-operative coffee house in the Adelaide CBD. What is a worker's co-op? It's simply a business which is democratically controlled and owned by the workers. Any business can be a co-operative and we think there are few legitimate reasons why most, if not all businesses shouldn't be co-operatives. Democracy should not be left at the doorstep when we go to work. We hope you will come along to our workshop to hear how we are progressing. There are opportunities to join as a worker-owner, supporter and investor. Equally important, we want to share what resources we have and the steps we have followed for you to open your own independent and autonomous co-op.
Facilitator: Samuel Shetler
Sunday Workshops
Corporate campaigning: messages for activating the ethical and the less than ethical
Abstract: This workshop will examine the various kinds of effective corporate or anti-corporate campaigns that can be waged, ranging from consumer led strategies through to ethical and non ethical investors. How do we convince non ethical investors to shift? Risk is the answer.
Facilitator: Aidan Ricketts
Building grassroots movements
Abstract: Building a grassroots organisation, maintaining volunteer pathways and support as well as chatting about working in alliances, youth leadership and frontline organising eg. Pt Augusta. This workshop will include aspects of growing a grassroots movement, action groups across a state and nationally - including aspects about structure, decision making and support; frontline campaigning - working in alliance & moving allies/non allies; volunteer management, mentoring and pathways as an organisation and as activists; field organising - organising large scale events/campaigns eg. Rally for Solar/Repower Port Augusta; youth leadership; communicating climate change - values based; advocacy; messaging - positive, solutions based (linking anti-coal with renewables for example)
Facilitators: Leonora Herweijer & Daniel Lynch
Be your own Media Mogul - how to break into the 24 hour news cycle
This workshop will examine the following topics :
* How the mainstream media works.
* What makes a news story.
* How to prepare a media release.
* What cameras to use.
* Social media.
* Facing up to a hostile media conference.
Participants in the workshop will have to prepare their own media releases, and be prepared to take part in a live media conference which will be recorded on video. During the interactive session, course participants will divide into small groups of 5 or 6 and be given 15 minutes to prepare a media release from information supplied to them.
They will appoint a group leader who will read out the media release and then respond to intense questioning from the floor.
Facilitation: Chris Warren and John Maguire
Social media: the things you need to know
Abstract: To come
Workshop facilitator: Noriko Wynn
Public Narrative - Story telling to move others to action.
Abstract: Storytelling is an ancient powerful method of communication. Crafting a narrative that motivates people to action is one of the most important aspects of any type of leadership, campaign, or advocacy work. Developed by Marshall Ganz and honed over years in the field, public narrative is the values-based practice of storytelling. In this workshop, participants will work in pairs and small groups to learn some basics about how to tell a more powerful story using voice, body language, visual imagery, and improvisation experiential exercises.
Workshop facilitator: Tammy-Jo Sutton
Deep Green Resistance
Abstract: Industrial civilization is not sustainable, and is threatening to destroy every living being on Earth. Deep Green Resistance is a strategy to stop the destruction. The goal of DGR is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. DGR advocates for the dismantling of industrial infrastructure, and rebuilding just and sustainable human communities. To be effective as activists, our work needs to be strategic and integrated. The session will cover theory, strategy, and security culture.
Facilitator: Kim Hill
Are you being greenwashed?
Abstract: How corporate interests co-opt and neutralise environmental activism for their own benefit. Corporations sell green products, lifestyle change, energy efficiency, renewables, funding, eco-jobs, and alliances, and environmentalists are the customers. Are you being effective, or have you been sold?
Facilitator: Kim Hill
Sustainable activism
Abstract: Many people devote their time and energy to some form of activism – acting with focused passion to bring about positive environmental and social justice change. That focused passion is essential motivating energy but it can also contribute to burnout, a state of psychological and/or physical exhaustion. Every year committed activists suffer and drop out of activism because they have burnt out. This workshop will explore what the symptoms of burnout are and how to identify them in ourselves and in our friends. Experience guided relaxation, reflect upon your life and help reaffirm why we do what we do.
Facilitator: Tammy-Jo Sutton
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Nature Adventures
Snorkeling
There are 2 snorkeling options:
- Snapper Point drop-off snorkel trip.
Time spent in water = 45 mins – 1 hour.
- For those less experienced and/or those without fins,
launch from the beach into the the southern end of the Aldinga reef.
Aldinga Scrub Bush Walk
For those who do not feel like snorkeling, there will be a bush walk lead by the Friends of Aldinga Scrub.
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