The Victorian Local Government Leadership and Learning Centre of the Victorian Local Government Association hosted three events with Wendy Sarkissian on Friday 5th June in Melbourne.
Here is a summary of some of the discussion with community leaders: Notes from VLGA Community Leaders workshop
For information about other lectures and workshops, contact Wendy on + 61 402 966 284 or wendy@sarkissian.com.au
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Council Officers 9am – 12noon |
Unpacks specific techniques for achieving Kitchen Table Sustainability with a focus on inclusion and capacity building. You will learn innovative ways to engage participants for the long term and incorporate activists in engagement processes. In this interactive workshop, the emphasis will be on tested capacity-building approaches for successful outcomes. Establishes the basis for Kitchen Table Sustainability, explaining how targeted and sensitive processes can empower community members to address sustainability issues through engagement. Structure will be hard-hitting, concrete, practical and experience-based with an emphasis on the EATING model. Suitable for anyone engaging in engagement and sustainability work at any level. |
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Councillors 1.30pm – 4.30pm |
Unpacks specific techniques for achieving Kitchen Table Sustainability with a focus on inclusion and capacity building. You will learn innovative ways to engage participants for the long term and incorporate activists in engagement processes. In this interactive workshop, the emphasis will be on tested capacity-building approaches for successful outcomes. |
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Community Leaders 7pm – 9pm |
Why are our community engagement unique approach processes failing to engage local people with sustainability issues? And what can we do about it? In this lecture, Wendy Sarkissian takes a hard look at current community engagement processes in Australia and elsewhere. She finds them failing to meet the challenges posed by sustainability in our cities and towns. Wendy inspires us to use more targeted and tested methods based on leading practice principles that build community confidence and capacity and open the door to true community engagement: methods that help local people understand the dimensions and pitfalls of sustainability and build hope and confidence for the future. There will be ample time for questions and discussion.
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