2-Part Webinar Series
*All registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and presentation slides following each session. The recording will be available for 60 days.
Neighbours United has been running campaigns using deep canvassing for four years and training partners in Canada and the US. Join this series to get an overview of outreach and communications learnings to-date and begin customizing tested communication messages and talking points for your campaign applications.
An overview of lessons learned and communications applications from Neighbours United’s deep canvassing campaigns on climate,energy, and biodiversity.
At the end of the workshop, participants will:
- Be familiar with deep canvassing in contemporary climate, energy and biodiversity campaigns
- Understand communications best practices to reach beyond existing environmentalists
- Access template materials and tools
- Have started crafting their own messages and talking points to reach intended audiences using Neighbours United’s learnings
Communications applications from Neighbours United’s deep canvassing campaigns on climate, energy, and biodiversity.
The second part of this two part workshop series will support your outreach and communications campaign customization of Neighbours United’s deep canvassing learnings. You will get small group coaching and support from Neighbours United’s experienced practitioners.
At the end of the workshop, participants will:
- Have support and coaching from Neighbours United’s experienced staff
- Have refined adapted outreach and communications messages and talking points to use right away in their campaigns
We would like to thank the Gosling Foundation for their support of this webinar series.
Based on the unceded territory of the Sinixt Peoples in southeastern British Columbia, Montana is a queer settler and parent. She has15+ years of experience in the climate, energy, and environmental non-profit sector in BC, Canada, and internationally. As the executive director at Neighbours United, she has led organizing and deep canvassing efforts to run successful programs that engage with movable middle audiences to shift their beliefs and win campaigns. Montana received a 2022 Emerging Leader Award and Top Project Award from Canada’s Clean50.
Anna is climate and conservation writer and communicator, mother, cycling advocate, and wildlife technician based in Nelson, British Columbia on the unceded traditional territory of the Sinixt Peoples. Anna recently completed a journalism internship with the nature-focused news agency called Mongabay and for the past several years, she has written dozens of stories featuring people living in rural and suburban communities who have concerns for or suggestions on how natural resources are managed in their community or province. Anna currently works as a writer and communications strategist for Neighbours United and has been creating and testing various forms of online content intended to build broader support for climate and conservation policies.
Ari lives on the traditional and unceded territory of the Sinixt Peoples, also known as Slocan, BC. Ari grew up in Ontario, and always dreamed of living in BC. When they finally came, in 2016, they knew they had found a special place. They love adventuring with their dog and growing a large garden. Before coming West, they received a degree from Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. They worked in research doing qualitative evaluations of non-profits to improve the services they offer communities. Ari loved hearing people’s stories in this role. They believe in the power of storytelling to change lives for the better. They identify as queer and are a published writer of fiction and creative nonfiction and write novels in their spare time.
Session 1: Settler Colonialism 101
Introduce ENGO representatives to the fact that colonization is a structure and not an event. Identifies key ways that colonialism moves through individuals and organizations.
Session 2: Positionality
ENGO representatives learn how to articulate their social location within a settler colonial state, and in relation to potential Indigenous partners.
Session 3: Inherent Indigenous Governance 101
Introduce the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues. Examples provided.
Session 4: Building Better Relations
ENGO representatives will road test ways they can implement previous workshop key points to re-imagine partnerships with Indigenous nations.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
Session 1: Diagnosing Settler Colonialism in the Enviro Sector
Participants will be asked to share ways in which they have diagnosed and traced power in social justice movements and/or in the ENGO sector. This workshop will make space for discomfort as part of promoting decolonization.
Session 2: Inherent Indigenous Governance
A mix of advanced and introductory theory, this workshop delves into legal and political pluralism, naming the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues.
Session 3: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
ENGO participants are introduced to theories and examples describing the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the “Shadow State.” Purpose is to show how settler colonialism structures civil society.
Session 4: Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships
This workshop delves deep into how ENGOs can partner with Indigenous nations beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex while promoting deference to inherent Indigenous political leaders.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
The Indigenous only space will be collaborative in nature but critical in approach. This track is a space for Indigenous folks within the ENGO sector to come together to discuss their experiences and work, with an eye to taking a position on what the sector might need to do in order to promote decolonization. Participants will use the first session to define our goals for the remaining three meetings. Therefore, session topics named here are proposals only.
Session 1: Naming the Cannibal: Settler Colonialism in the ENGO Sector
Session 2: Proposed topic: Reflections on working in the ENGO Sector
Session 3: Proposed topic: Centering Indigenous Thought in the ENGO Sector
Session 4: Proposed topic: Visioning a Decolonial Environmental Sector
Cost: Free
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