Gladstone Foundations of Community Organising Training

The Queensland Community Alliance is an Alliance of civil society organisations whose mission is to provide our community with a voice to express our common values and aspirations for a fair and just society.

The Gladstone team has been working locally to build an alliance of local organisations working together for change, and are together hosting this training. 

Foundations training is based on the philosophy and practices developed by the Industrial Areas Foundation in over 65 years of successful organising.  These ideas are translated to an Australian context to cover the essentials of community organising and how we implement it here in Queensland, with pockets of place based organising in SEQ, Gladstone and Townsville.

The training is interactive, thoughtful and made for people with all levels of experience. Concepts worked through include leadership, power, our roles as public people and what strong organisations look like. As practical as it is theoretical, we teach the tools to start building public relationships and working through the organising cycle to solve problems in our communities.

This training will be held in person on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 April, 2025 and will run from 9am to 4:30pm each day. It is necessary for all attendees to commit to attending all sessions.

• Day 1: Tuesday 1 April, 8.45 for a 9am start-4:30pm 
• Day 2: Wednesday 2 April, 8.45 for a 9am start-4:30pm. 

Topics at Foundations training include:

• Community Organising: based on the history and tradition of our religious, union and community organisations
• Relational Organising: individual relational meetings, listening assemblies, research, negotiation and action
• Strengthening our Organisations: building a culture that is relational, action oriented and reflective/learning
• Using Relational Power in the public sphere to take collaborative action on common issues.

Everyone is welcome. Member organisations are encouraged to send leaders and members to participate. It is an important space to connect with other organisations and to develop skills in community organising.

There is no cost to attend this training.

Organisations interested in exploring partnership with the Alliance are also encouraged to participate and to get a feel for the work. 

We acknowledge that this event will take place on the land of the First Nations Bailai, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng, Taribelang Bunda Peoples and acknowledge their Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.