Training sessions

18 August 2011

This year's event includes film screenings, workshops, presentations and discussions, plus a "self-organising" space available for people to get together to discuss ideas that arise over the weekend. 

There'll be sessions on the our 3 new campaigns - on energy, greener products and bees, as well as a whole range of sessions to develop your campaigning skills.

Every delegate will receive the full list of training sessions, including session descriptions, timings, locations and facilitators. But here's a summary version to get you started: 

Friday 9 September: 14.45-16.00

• Activist-led session: Happy Healthy Food - more sustainability in local groups food campaigning
• Workshop: Local authority climate action (delegate suggestion)
• Workshop: Shaping your campaign to maximise media coverage  (delegate suggestion)
• Activist-led session: "It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it... campaigning, values and Common Cause"
• Activist-led session: "Biomess?"
• Activist-led session: Young Friends of the Earth network
• Discussion: Motion discussion group 1
• Discussion: Motion discussion group 2

Friday 9 September: 16.30-17.45

• Presentation and discussion: Measuring EU Resource Use  (delegate suggestion)
• Workshop: Sort out your tweets from your pokes - using social media in your campaign
• Discussion: Green growth or steady state? What does a green economy look like?  (delegate suggestion)
• Discussion: Motion discussion group 3
• Discussion: Motion discussion group 4
• Workshop: "Old MacDonald had a 26,000 pig facility, intensive sheds and high antibiotic use" - the problems with factory farming
• Presentation and discussion: Newcomers session
• Activist-led session: Talking to the future Prime Minister...
• Activist-led session: Will there be any fish left to eat? The question CFP Reform must address and solve
• Workshop: Alright at the back? The do's and don'ts of public-speaking  (delegate suggestion)
• Workshop: Reaching new people and raising funds for your local group
• Skillshare: Local leaders
• SELF ORGANISING SPACE: space will be available for impromptu meetings and discussions

Saturday 10 September: 14.30-16.00

• Film screening: "Just Do It"
• Workshop: Become a Friends of the Earth film-maker... and help shoot Conference
• Presentation and Q&A: Friends of the Earth new Energy Campaign - Essential info
• Discussion: Stuff uses too much stuff
• Discussion: Introduction to the 2012 Bees Campaign
• Workshop with case studies: What's happening in planning?
• Discussion: Motion Discussion group 5
• Discussion: Motion discussion group 6
• Workshop: Planning creative events
• Workshop: Movement Building - how can we grow and nurture more people to bring about transformational change?
• Presentation, Q&A and surgery time: Back to Nature
• SELF ORGANISING SPACE: space will be available for impromptu meetings and discussions

Sunday 11 September: 12.00-13.30

• Film screening: Vanishing of the Bees
• Workshop: New Energy Campaign - Taking the campaign to the public
• Workshop: New Energy Campaign - Creating a media splash
• Workshop: New Energy Campaign - Getting across to decision makers
• Discussion: Stuff uses too much stuff
• Discussion: Introduction to the 2012 Bees Campaign
• Case studies and discussion: Against the Wind
• Workshop: Parlez vous Europe? Campaigning in a European context
• Presentation and Q&A: Do you feel empowered?
• Workshop: Getting people's attention and keeping it - tips of the trade
• Workshop: Act like you're winning
• Open discussion / skill-share opportunity: Learning from Earthmovers
• Workshop: Community Energy
• SELF ORGANISING SPACE: space will be available for impromptu meetings and discussions