Learn to support urban nature and meet like-minded community members.

Join us and become an Urban Nature Steward by learning how to support and care for nature at home, and across your urban environment.

Our cities and urban places have become important habitat for many of our Australian native species. There are things we can all do to live more harmoniously with local species and enrich our lives at the same time.

Supported by The City of Adelaide, this four-week course will connect you with people in your local area and communities, share environmental concepts and techniques that are relevant to our urban context, inspire and empower you with environmental knowledge, and motivate you to try new things and set goals with urban nature in mind.

Course topics include:

Making wilder urban places 

Steps to being an urban nature steward

Promoting urban biodiversity with local native species

Cooling our urban spaces and why it's important

How plants and gardens can be used to cool your home

Gardening for wildlife and for food

Ways to get involved in community efforts

How to plan for nature at your place

Course details: When: Tuesday evenings Duration: Five sessions across four weeks (There will be a field trip on the Saturday of week 3- details to be confirmed in Week 1) Time: 6-8pm Where: Minor Works Building Community Centre (Adelaide CBD) Cost: $30 per person

Please email any questions to Rebecca.Rowe3@sa.gov.au

Struggling in the space between a complicated topic and a general audience? Got all the expertise but not the right language? We’ll help you find the words you need to be understood.

Why do I need it?

Ensure your communication is clear, simple, effective and free of waffle.

Develop a professional style guide to help you switch gears seamlessly between different forms of writing.

Get advice from two editors with over twenty years of combined experience making sure writing finds exactly the right voice for its market.

What’s the format?

A three-hour workshop, run in-person at our Adelaide Arcade space. You don't need to bring anything; pens and paper supplied, as well as tea, biscuits and book recommendations.

Limited spots available. If you have access requirements, cost restrictions or any questions, please say hello@pinkshortspress.com.au

Conservation Council SA is organising a series of one off skills trainings for members, supporters and friends of the climate and environment justice movement in SA.

Why Facilitation?

In the face of the climate and biodiversity emergencies, we don’t just need more activists; we need activists who can work effectively together. Environmental justice work is inherently complex, involving messy systems, high-pressure decision-making, and deep emotional stakes.

Facilitation is the “secret sauce” of healthy and effective movements and organisations. It’s about creating spaces where people feel heard, valued, and energized so they can move forward together.

Led by a specialist Groupwork facilitator Che Biggs, we dive into a practice based training incorporating:

Some of the hardest facilitation involves working with strong emotions and pop-up conflict, but if we can navigate the heat wisely, these experiences are where we can often help individuals and groups make the biggest breakthroughs.

In this facilitation taster session we will explore some fundamental elements for facilitating ‘hot spots’ and difficult conversations. Starting from a recognition that our own relationship with conflict and strong emotions will shape how we respond as facilitators, we will:

Normalise conflict in groups and explore how ‘hot spots' are a source of significant insight and potential gateways for change.

Unpack our responses to conflict and some principles for navigating hot spots in ways to that don’t ‘other' or shame.

Practice some communication skills that can help us support those principles.

Being only a short ‘taster’ session that delves into some of the more emotionally-laden elements of facilitation, attendees are requested they have prior facilitation training experience. This workshop is designed to ‘go deep lightly’ and aimed at everyday hot-spots - not for resolving your facilitation nightmares :).

The prior event Facilitation Essentials was is an introduction and is a prerequisite to this event “Facilitation skills for difficult conversations - “Facilitating Hot Spots.”

(Anyone with other facilitation training or enough experience is also eligible for this ‘Part 2’ session).

Learn to support urban nature and meet like-minded community members.

Join us and become an Urban Nature Steward by learning how to support and care for nature at home, and across your urban environment.

Our cities and urban places have become important habitat for many of our Australian native species. There are things we can all do to live more harmoniously with local species and enrich our lives at the same time.

Supported by The City of Adelaide, this four-week course will connect you with people in your local area and communities, share environmental concepts and techniques that are relevant to our urban context, inspire and empower you with environmental knowledge, and motivate you to try new things and set goals with urban nature in mind.

Course topics include:

Making wilder urban places 

Steps to being an urban nature steward

Promoting urban biodiversity with local native species

Cooling our urban spaces and why it's important

How plants and gardens can be used to cool your home

Gardening for wildlife and for food

Ways to get involved in community efforts

How to plan for nature at your place

Course details: When: Tuesday evenings Duration: Five sessions across four weeks (There will be a field trip on the Saturday of week 3- details to be confirmed in Week 1) Time: 6-8pm Where: Minor Works Building Community Centre (Adelaide CBD) Cost: $30 per person

Please email any questions to Rebecca.Rowe3@sa.gov.au

Feel free to join this small group who share and process their grief using simple creative methods.

The group is facilitated by Therese who lives locally and has worked and volunteered in the area of loss and grief for over 20 years.

Each month has a different activity and theme

Happening in the large meeting room on the last Wednesday of each month between 1pm-2.30pm.

Accessibility:

Campbelltown Library is a place for everyone and we welcome all people. If you have specific accessibility requirements, please contact the Library on 08 8366 9299 or library@campbelltown.sa.gov.au so that we can learn how we can best support your participation.

Feel free to join this small group who share and process their grief using simple creative methods.

The group is facilitated by Therese who lives locally and has worked and volunteered in the area of loss and grief for over 20 years.

Each month has a different activity and theme

Happening in the large meeting room on the last Wednesday of each month between 1pm-2.30pm.

Accessibility:

Campbelltown Library is a place for everyone and we welcome all people. If you have specific accessibility requirements, please contact the Library on 08 8366 9299 or library@campbelltown.sa.gov.au so that we can learn how we can best support your participation.

Our april text is shulamith firestone’s ‘the dialectic of sex’. join us to talk about reproductive labour, capitalism, technology and technofuturisms, radical feminism, madness, and more.

the book is available as a pdf here: http://biopolitics.kom.uni.st/Shulamith%20Firestone/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminist%20Revolution%20(139)/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminis%20-%20Shulamith%20Firestone.pdf

this group is trans-safe. we are open to everyone (including those from beyond the university).

https://www.facebook.com/events/2212722339471927/

Our NDIS is under attack. It’s time to unite, fight and show the Australian government that we are not an easy target.

Social and community participation budgets will be cut by 30% - replaced by block funded grants to 'host' us in the community (no idea how we get there)

All support workers providing Assistance with Daily Life will need to be from registered providers - too bad if you like employing the person who showers you directly

300,000 less people will be on NDIS and all participants will be reassessed - too bad if you've already provided all the traumatising evidence before (or three times before!)

Scheme growth will be capped at 2 per cent with a chaotic and unpredictable NDIA determining where and on who the axe will fall

A return to the bad old block funded system - putting the lives of real people in the hands of a few big companies and charities often with horrific track records of abuse and neglect

Huge job losses in the disability and wider sector as the market collapses - Based on data by NDS and per-capita, the cuts equate to a loss of 204,000 jobs spread across the nation - most of them women, in a cost-of-living crisis.  

No word on self-directed registration - meaning people managing their own lives effectively will be forced back into having their lives directed by the whims of companies and charities.

It's easier for registered providers to rort the NDIS - they can bill NDIS direct with no requirement to prove that the support billed for actually occurred.

There are many other plans including huge issues around functional capacity assessments - we will be launching our fact sheets at this meeting. 

We will also be launching our 12 days of action in the lead up to the Federal Budget. We’ll be giving you concrete steps to get involved in the push back against these changes and letting you know what else is happening across Australia.

The meeting will be focused on action. There won’t be an opportunity for individual story sharing but there will be clear and specific ways to be part of the push back with options for people with more or less capacity.