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Strategic Questioning involves a special type of questioning and a special type of listening. Anyone can use strategic questions in their work and personal lives to liberate friends, coworkers, communities, political allies and adversaries to create a path for change.

Fran Peavey describes this as "a process which invites our ideas to shift and take into account new information and new possibilities. It awakens the suppressed possibilities of change embedded in each person, in each institution and in each society."

See http://www.crabgrass.org/strategic.html for more information on this approach.

This workshop presents a rare opportunity to connect with Fran Peavey, an internationally renowned community social change worker who initiated the Heart Politics movement. This lecture and workshop are the only events to be held in Queensland during Fran's Australian tour.

Lecture "Heart Politics: Thinking like water"
Monday 13th August 6.30pm
Registration $15 waged / $10 unwaged

International social change worker and comedian Fran Peavey talks about her latest book "Heart Politics revisited" which grew out of her experiences in social and environmental change across several continents, including the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war struggles in the United States, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, the Minimato poisoning disaster in Japan, the clean-up of the Ganges River and, more recently, the refugee crisis in Bosnio and Kosovo. She will discuss our potential to create positive social change in a time when power is shifting and traditional alliances are fragmenting and re-forming, and will focus on the transformational effect of ordinary people at both the community and individual levels.

Workshop: Introduction to Strategic Questioning
Tuesday 14th August 9.30am to 5.30pm (registration from 9.00am)
Registration: $150 waged / $100 unwaged

One day workshop for environmental advocates, researchers and educators, facilitators, community development workers and change agents.

Lunch, morning and afternoon teas included.

A map of Nathan Campus and the Griffith University EcoCentre can be found on-line here.

For public transport options contact TransInfo on 13 12 30 or www.transinfo.qld.gov.au

Parking for participants provided in Bay F on the Ring Road adjacent to the EcoCentre.

You can register by either printing out a Registration Form, or by contacting James (see below) who will post you out a registration form.

For more information contact James Whelan on (07) 3875 7457

James.Whelan@maillbox.gu.eu.au

 

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