Wednesday 6 February 2019

Shelter Masterclass

Presentation and Taster Training

2.30pm—4.30pm

GET ORGANISED WITH SHELTER!

A masterclass session, adaptedfrom Shelter’s community organising training curriculum - a programme used by campaigners and housing activists across the UK to develop political power and secure real, lasting change for homeless people and people in bad housing.

The session will introduce ideas and thinking behind Power and Self-Interest; Negotiating skills; Building core social relationships;effective leadership, campaigning and action.

The session will be run by Shelter’s Community Organiser, Bryn Phillips who is a working practitioner using broad based community organising to develop leaders, build power and make change at a local, regional and national level.

The objective of session is to give attendees an enriched sense of purpose, an understating as to how to start developing powerful relationships, and a practical set of tools to help to make meaningful change in their communities

Open to all students of MMU who have an interest in working towards social justice and a desire to learn the tools and rules of community organising as a means to secure change.

About:

Shelter is a registered charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing. It gives advice, information and advocacy to people in need, and tackles the root causes of bad housing by lobbying government and local authorities for new laws and policies to improve the lives of homeless and badly housed people

Context

We have all read about the housing crisis that has been gripping our country over the last few decades. Many of us have, or will have, personal experience of it too.

In the UK, over 6 million people are now homeless or living in bad housing. This is nothing less than a national emergency.  It cannot be stopped by anything less than a national movement.

Please sign up for event via eventbrite link: http://dmene.eventbrite.com?s=91327032

Design & Media Employability Events: Masterclass Marvellous / Fabulous Professional February 2019

Organizer of SHELTER: Get Organised! Presentation and Taster Training Session 

A series of Masterclass sessions and talks organised to support all Design and Media Students, but open to all Faculty of Arts and Humanities students.  The sessions have been lovingly designed to help expand your employability horizons, to help develop your transferable and specialist skills sets, and to provide invaluable insights to help support your professional development.