Invitation to submit workshops for Australia's Climate Action Summit

Our climate. Our future. Our summit.

From February January 31st to February 3rd, community climate action
groups from across the continent are joining together for Australia's
Climate Action Summit in Canberra, the weekend before the first day
of the 2009 Federal Parliament.

Australia's Climate Action Summit will have two distinct,
simultaneous parts: a weekend strategy meeting on Saturday January
31st and Sunday February 1st for delegates from climate change action
groups to build a unified national climate campaign, and a weekend
public conference on the urgent climate crisis. On Monday February
2nd, there will be a day of dynamic training in climate campaigning
skills for taking action, facilitating climate action groups,
effective lobbying and more. On Tuesday February 3rd, the first day
of the 2009 Federal Parliament, we will mobilise thousands of people
in a high profile demonstration for real action on climate change.

We are inviting submissions for workshops, skillshares and forums for
the weekend public conference of Australia's Climate Action Summit.

Workshops will be 90 minutes in length. We are looking for workshops
on:
* Campaign skills: workshops on campaign strategy, media,
lobbying, community engagement and outreach on climate change issues;
* Group skills: workshops on facilitation, building and
maintaining a climate change group;
* Action skills: workshops on how to organise a variety of
community action (non violent direct action on coal infrastructure,
rally, human sign, etc).
* Informative and practical workshops on climate change myths
(nuclear, "clean coal") and solutions (Transition Towns, solar
technology, etc);
* Workshops that explore social and environmental justice issues
and climate change;
* Workshops specifically for children; and
* Success stories and discussions on projects/campaigns that
have been successful, strong climate action groups, and great
workplace initiatives to show, learn from and celebrate what has
already been achieved!

If you or your group have a workshop you would like to hold, please
send a short description and your contact details to
program@... by December 30th, 2008.

If you haven't facilitated a workshop before and would like some
support, get in touch! We can send you some resources, talk on the
phone, pair you up with an experienced facilitator, or send you a
variety of existing workshop plans to help you out:
program@... Not all the workshops will fit on the
published program, but there will also be "open space" time
throughout the Summit where people can submit and create workshops
without organising beforehand.

For more information about Australia's Climate Action Summit, flyers
and posters for your group, or to get involved, please contact
info@... or call 0417 682 541.

www.climatesummit.org.au


jo lewis
rainbird@...







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