October 21, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Free on Zoom Webinar
*Please note, all registrants will be provided with a link and password to the recording and presentation slides following the session. The recording will be available for 60 days.
What do Canadians believe and understand about biodiversity loss? How urgent – and personally significant – is the destruction of nature, in our minds? Is it wise to link nature protection to climate change? And what’s the best frame for discussing biodiversity with key segments of the electorate? Get answers to these questions and others in this timely webinar for environmental communicators, campaigners, government staff and others presented by Environics Research, author of a new national survey on behalf of EcoAnalytics, a project of Makeway.
Our Presenters:
Sarah Roberton is Senior Vice President, Corporate and Public Affairs with Environics Research. Sarah uses research for good, helping clients develop policies, programs, strategy and communications that resonate with their audiences and make a real difference. Her strength is telling stories – based on data and evidence – that shed light on the direction organizations need to take to be successful. As the lead for Environics’ energy-environment practice, Sarah is one of the most knowledgeable research practitioners in the Canadian environment and climate change space.
James Boothroyd is Project Director and co-founder of EcoAnalytics Research, a non-profit initiative on the shared platform of Makeway. A former journalist, he has wide experience as a communications specialist for international public-health agencies and national environmental NGOs.
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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