Nip over to Political Dynamite for a quick preview of this weekend’s 6 Billion Ways event. Carl’s been busy mentoring a handful of the organisers in facilitating the Open Space session on Sunday. Meanwhile I’ll be in Dorset, working with the Threshold Centre, a co-housing project, on their consensus process. More on that next week.
Short notice plug for a meeting a friend is involved with: Responding to Workfare A meeting for voluntary sector workers and benefits claimants to develop a shared response to government plans to make ‘voluntary’ work compulsory. Speakers from: London Coalition Against Poverty|Unite (Not-for-Profit Sector) Time: 7pm|Date: Wednesday 9th February|Venue: Hackney City Farm, Goldsmith’s Row, E2 […]
19-29 February’s proving popular. This also just in: Want to learn mediation skills Interested in helping support activist groups engage with disagreements and conflict, to make them more effective? Want to deal with conflicts in your personal life that interfere with your activism? Mediation training for activists in London on 19-20 February, from 11am – […]
This just in: NUCLEAR RESISTANCE TEACH-IN AND SKILLS SHARE WEEKEND, 19-20 FEB, LONDON A chance to learn and share info about why we urgently need to resist new nuclear build and promote sustainable alternatives, and skills to help us do it. Workshops from 10am Saturday to 4pm Sunday Crash space available Friday night to Sunday […]
On Saturday, I was one of a team of facilitators working at the Gathering Momentum event. The turnout was significantly higher than expected – maybe 70-100 people. They were a mix of individual activists, volunteers and staff from community groups, and NGO campaigners. A fair few were veterans of the GM campaign of the late […]
Anti-GM update, networking and strategy session for grassroots and NGO campaigners Saturday 22nd January 2011, 10am – 6pm, Central London The GM threat is gaining momentum: GM test crops are being grown in the UK again, GM food oil is frying our chips and most farm animals are fed GM soya grown on former rainforest […]
It’s been a busy week. I spent a couple of days mid-week last week in Oxfordshire at Braziers Park. Transition Network were running a “Dreaming Circle” that drew together facilitators from across the UK and further (Norway, Germany). The common bond? Wanting to support transition initiatives in creating good group process. Like so many other […]
The organisers say: The legal aid fund was inspired by the successes of a similar fund during the South African apartheid movement which made a real difference by fundraising for legal action. Among its many successes was the defence of Nelson Mandela from the death penalty in 1963. The legal aid fund for Palestine is […]
Chris Rose of Campaign Strategy has drawn our attention to Earthscan’s latest Earthcast – a “free live interactive web event”. This one’s on Communicating Climate Change and will help you to: Learn behaviour change strategies for encouraging sustainable lifestyles and communities Learn effective communications strategies for engaging the public with climate change – (and why […]
