The role of education and facilitation in building and supporting movements is vital… but opportunities for us to develop and extend these skills can be rare. Join us for three solid days to:

• reflect on our experiences and challenges as educators and facilitators
• extend and develop our facilitation skills and strengthen our confidence to deal with challenging situations
• understand and apply principles of popular and experiential education and learning
• develop a ‘toolbox’ of education and facilitation techniques
• build capacity to support activists, organisations, communities and movements to make change happen.

A significant component of the workshop will be practice facilitation. Come prepared to show your stuff, share tools, and stretch! Together we’ll create a supportive space for experimentation and growth, with considered critical feedback from peers.

This workshops will benefit people engaged in education and facilitation with a community and social change perspective: such as union educators, community organisers, non-violence practitioners, peer educators, and grassroots activists.

The Change Agency is a not-for-profit collective of activist educators. We’ve run hundreds of workshops for thousands of people engaged in action for social and environmental justice. Through the Social Movement Ed2 we aim to build and strengthen a community of activist educators throughout Australia and the Pacific. The workshop facilitators are James Whelan, Holly Hammond and Sam La Rocca. The registration fee is $250 - $600. ‘Pay the rent’ registration is available free to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants.

For full details, flier and registration form, check out http://www.thechangeagency.org/02_cal/details.asp?ID=197&varPeriod=1.