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Fran Peavey's events in Western Australia

For more information on any of the following events, please contact Rodney Vlais on (08) 9337 7217 or ecoheal@iinet.net.au

Mutual Support and Burnout Prevention for Activists: A Conversation with Fran Peavey, Wednesday July 25, City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth, 5:30pm bring a vegetarian plate to share, 6:30pm - 9:30pm workshop, $5 unwaged / $10 waged part-time / $15 waged full-time.

This event is for environmentalists, social change workers, peace and other activists ~ both young and not-so-young ~ to spend time with Fran in an intimate conversational setting. Fran will share her experiences on ways in which activists can care for themselves and each other, and on how to build motivations for action based on the personal as political. Fran will emphasise how we can easily overlook the heart and love in our work and in how we treat ourselves, and will explore clearness support processes as a means to support each other emotionally, spiritually, practically and intellectually.

Please bring vegetarian food to share with others, at 5:30pm. The workshop commences at 6:30pm. No registrations are required. This will be Fran's first event in her Australian Heart Politics Tour.

City West Lotteries House is 2 mins walk from the City West train station.

Heart Politics: Thinking Like Water
public lecture, Thursday July 26, 7-9pm
Weatherburn Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia, $25/$20. Phone UWA Extension 9380 2433.

Fran will talk about her latest book "Heart Politics Revisited", which grew out of her experiences in social change and environmental campaigns 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 crises in Bosnia 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 working at both the community and individual levels.

Phone UWA Extension to secure your seat ~ tickets will also be available at the door.

The Weatherburn Lecture Theatre is near Fairway entrance no. 2, on the west side of the campus.

Mutual Support and Burnout Prevention for Volunteers
Friday July 27, 1:15-5pm, City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St West Perth. Refreshments served 5pm - 6pm. $20 waged / unwaged negotiable. Phone Oxfam Community Aid Abroad on 9381 3144 or email <karenf@caa.org.au> for registrations or questions.

In this International Year of the Volunteer, Fran will offer a half day workshop for volunteers in community organisations and for other interested persons, focusing on:

~ Self care and harnessing enthusiasm;
~ Connectedness to others and to all living things, animal, plant life & river systems;
~ Fostering the concept of holism in consciousness;
~ Networking to develop community at a local level for positive effect and mutual gain;
~ Cultural literacy - a key skill in successful collaborative action with people and cultures different from one's own

Participants are welcome to stay with Fran after the workshop for refreshments from 5 - 6pm.

City West Lotteries House is 2 mins walk from the City West train station.

Strategic Questioning for Social and Community Change
one- and two-day workshop options on Sat July 28 & Sun July 29.

Strategic Questioning is the skill of asking the questions that will make a difference. Through dynamic listening to ourselves, to the earth and to our fellow citizens, Strategic Questioning can help uncover hidden power and stifled dreams, transform our culture and its institutions, and help adversaries shift from their stuck positions on an issue - leading to acts of healing and reconciliation. See http://gaiawest.iinet.net.au/sq.html for more information on this workshop.

Thinking Like Water: Power and Change in Society
one-day workshop on heart politics and social change wisdom in Bunbury at Building 6.3, Edith Cowan University, Robertson Drive Bunbury, Tuesday July 31. 9am to 4:30pm, $90 waged, $50 concession. Phone Joan Jenkins on 9791 6621 (a/hrs) or 9791 3210 (b/hrs) or June Scott 9731 0939 (a/hrs) or 9780 7769 (b/hrs).

An opportunity for people in the South-West, Perth and elsewhere to join Fran in a workshop on the means for achieving social and community change through empathy, nonviolence, cooperation and person-to-person contact. It will be an inspiring workshop on how powerful changes can come about by the cumulative effect of many small, yet life-affirming actions made by ordinary people.