In times of profound crisis and despair, this workshop aims at creating a space for participants to reflect on the relevance of narrative and storytelling for inspiring hope, community and care. Through interactive presentation, real-life examples and reflection participants will explore storytelling techniques that connect people’s hearts and minds behind a call to action. 

We want to give you a heads up - this is a reflective session so the participants will be talking and there will be an exercise in breakout rooms - we know that on any given day people might not be up for it, so we just wanted to let you know ahead of time. We still very much hope you will join us! 

WHO IS IT FOR? 

Activists, leaders of organizations—whether you have background in campaigning, comms or not—if you want to win hearts and minds instead of constantly being on the defensive

 

Fotis Filippou is a campaign strategist, trainer and facilitator with over 15 years experience using participatory approaches and tools to design and implement global, regional and national campaigns. Committed to equality, social and climate justice and a firm believer in the power of activism to achieve change, Fotis has for over a decade led Amnesty International’s campaigns to mobilize people and achieve human rights victories in the Europe and Central Asia region – in areas such as migration, anti-discrimination, gender-equality and freedom of expression, among others. In 2020 Fotis joined Mobilisation Lab where he led the Learning Experiences program and an organisational shift to virtual training and workshops as a response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Since he became a freelancer in 2019, Fotis has been equipping activists and campaigners from around the world with the skills they need to design effective and powerful campaigns.