Spring Workshop Series on Change Agent Tools

Resist - Protect - Create!

Who: Calling all Change Agents! Whether you are a veteran activist or recently mobilized member of Indivisible - We want you to join us on beautiful Vashon Island as we learn together, create art and props, build community, and deepen our activism.

What: Backbone Campaign presents a series of trainings; each workshop will focus on one of the five disciplines, or Sectors of Agency in our Theory of Change:

Artful Activism, creative campaign design and props to make the invisible visible, bringing light to cause;
Community Organizing, non-transactional inquiry and engagement, building leadership and community power;
Cultural Work for anti-oppression & sense of place;
Storytelling and Media Making for reflecting and projecting our stories; and
Solutionary Strategies for a Just Transition, building and proving that another world is possible.

Where: Trainings will happen at the Hostel Space on Vashon Island, 12119 SW Cove Rd, Vashon, WA 98070

(Exception: the April 22 Community Organizing Training will happen at a different Vashon Island location.)

At the overnight trainings, shared sleeping accommodations are available on a first come/first served basis.

When: Dates, topics and confirmed speakers are:

March 10-11 (4pm on Friday - 5pm Saturday) - Artful Activism, Backbone Theory of Change and Campaign Organizing - Backbone Co-Founder Bill Moyer and Organizing Director Eric Ross, WAMend Cindy Black. Cost for training, meals and housing: $50-$200 (Sliding Scale). Register.

March 25-26 (8am Saturday - 3pm Sunday) - Cultural Healing, Anti-Oppression and overcoming fragmentation and alienation - Paul Cheoketen Wagner, Margot Boyer. Cost for training, meals and housing: $50-$200 (Sliding Scale). Register.

April 1-2 (8am Saturday - 3pm Sunday) - Media and Storytelling - PRESENTERS TO BE CONFIRMED. Cost for training, meals and housing: $50-$200 (Sliding Scale).

April 22 (9am - 5pm; Saturday only) - Community Organizing - Jim Diers, Sandra Vandervan - O Space on Vashon, Cost for training, lunch: $25-$100 (Sliding Scale).

(Date pending) - Solutionary Strategies - More info coming soon.

How: Register today! Scholarships are available; email [email protected] to inquire. Meals are included in the cost of the trainings; let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.

Let's increase our collective capacity to be effective change agents and build a future worthy of our children!