Are you looking to build on your advocacy skills? Or perhaps you are interested in how a feminist approach can help you create a strategic advocacy plan that is transformative and sustainable?

Designed for Australia-based for-purpose staff, IWDA’s online workshop, A Feminist Approach to Strategic Advocacy, will show you how a feminist approach can strengthen your advocacy work.

Date: Wednesday 14 December, 2022
Time: 9.30am – 4.00pm AEDT
Where: Online, using Zoom and Mural
Cost: $420+gst (includes full access to IWDA’s Plan Your Power online advocacy planning course)

Full scholarships available for First Nations people, please contact Clara at cbradley@iwda.org.au to register.

What does the workshop cover?

Understanding power and how it is expressed is central to a feminist approach to advocacy. This full day workshop will provide you with a framework to identify and analyse different forms and expressions of power, enabling you to create an advocacy strategy that is capable of challenging oppressive power while building transformative power.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this introductory workshop, you will have:

A strong understanding of how to embed feminist principles into your advocacy planning
Understand the various forms and locations of gendered power – and how gender and other discriminations intersect
Knowledge of principles and frameworks that support sustainable and transformative change
Practice applying feminist principles to strategic advocacy planning
Knowledge of how to use essential tools to guide you through every stage of the advocacy planning process
Complementary access to IWDA’s Plan Your Power Online Advocacy Planning Fundamentals Course (approx. seven hours of content and an advocacy planning template).

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is designed for people working in Australia's for-purpose sector who want to learn about essential advocacy planning tools for strategies that are targeted, sustainable, and centre diverse and marginalised voices.

Suitable for people new to advocacy, or seasoned advocates wishing to learn how a feminist approach can strengthen their work.

Join us for IWDA’s online workshop, A Feminist Approach to Strategic Advocacy, on Wednesday 14 December to learn how a feminist approach can strengthen your advocacy work.