The AEBC Leadership, Development and Training Committee invites you to participate in a Workshop on skills for advocacy and effective letter writing.

Date: Sunday, November 1st, 2015
Time: 2 p.m. Eastern time for a maximum of 1.5 hours
Facilitators: John Rae, AEBC Past President, and Chantal Oakes, President, AEBC Okanagan Chapter

This workshop will cover such topics as:

• Personal / global advocacy issues
• Understanding the scope of an issue
• Developing clear content and opinions on issues
• Types of letters (complaint, advocacy, awareness)
• Providing examples and case studies of different letters
• Who and where to send letters
• Media (paper vs. e-mail vs. feedback through website form)
• How a letter can help an issue
• Developing confidence to conduct advocacy
• How to stay motivated
• Q&A, follow up

Anyone is welcome to attend; however, you must be an AEBC member. Not a member yet? Please visit http://www.blindcanadians.ca/participate/membership and become a member!

To register for the workshop, please contact Dar Wournell at dar@blindcanadians.ca prior to October 30th at 5 p.m. Eastern time as space is limited.

We look forward to your participation on November 1st!