NCJWA & NIF Skill-Building Session - WHY AND HOW WE TELL STORIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE: AN ACTIVIST’S TOOLBOX

Join NCJWA and NIF Australia for aan interactive workshop empowering women’s voices in our community. We will have the opportunity to learn with leading American and Israeli voices on a variety of topics to help women feel more confident sharing their opinions whether in writing, on a community board or around the Shabbat dinner table.

No prerequisites required but you are encouraged to come with questions and an open mind.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Monday 8th November

7:30pm - 9pm AEDT

(6:30pm - 8:00pm AEST / 4:30pm - 6:00pm)

WHY AND HOW WE TELL STORIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE: AN ACTIVIST’S TOOLBOX 
with Hamutal Gouri from the Kiverstein Institute

We will discuss why storytelling is central to social change efforts and explore diverse storytelling tools - from appreciative inquiry, to basic storytelling templates and visions stands". We will have a chance to practice in small groups and explore the tools that best work for us.

Hamutal Gouri is Founding Director of Impact Storytelling: consulting, training, and storytelling for social change. Hamutal is a cultural critic, lecturer, consultant, and storyteller for social change. Hamutal has expertise in organisational, program, resource, and leadership development; gender audits and mainstreaming; diversity, inclusion, and intersectional approach to social transformation.

Hamutal served as Executive Director of the Dafna Fund, Israel’s first and only feminist fund. She continues to serve as a consultant to foundations as an expert on funding with a gender lens. Hamutal is a senior fellow at the Kiverstein Institute.

She teaches a course on Gender, Leadership and Action in Civil Society Organizations at the Rothberg School for Overseas Students at the Hebrew University. Gouri holds a BA in English Literature and Inter-disciplinary Studies, and an MA (Cum Laude) in Cultural Studies from the Hebrew University.

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If you have any questions, please contact

Sharon Berger - sharon@nif.org.au

Melinda Jones - president@ncjwa.org.au



We look forward to seeing you there,

NCJWA and NIF Australia