1. Present A Unique Two-Day Workshop
This highly original, hands-on workshop is designed for all human service
practitioners and activists who want to explore creative approaches to
addressing disadvantage, discrimination and inequality.
The facilitators are Dr Jennifer Lehmann and Russell Deal OAM, both social work educators
and practitioners with over 80 years’experience between them. As passionate
advocates for their field, Jennifer and Russell believe it is imperative that all human
service practitioners continue to creatively confront issues of injustice, in whatever
roles they are employed.
This workshop is practical, skills-based and inspirational. Join us to explore a host of
expressive possibilities for colourful and considered advocacy: create a cartoon, draft
a letter to a newspaper, design a poster, write a memoir or short story, build a creative
writing course for clients, construct a conversation-building card set, send a‘message
in a bottle’ to a politician, and more.
• How do we practise advocacy within our own organisations?
• How do we respectfully advocate on behalf of our clients?
• What are some creative alternatives to try in the face of persistent structures
that disadvantage and discriminate?
• How do we skill-up our clients and our communities to advocate for themselves?
• What roles can humour play in social change?
Celebrating the expertise in the room, The Literary Advocate and Agitator will be
built around the skills and experience of all participants.The workshop welcomes
practitioners with backgrounds in community development, mental health
support, counselling and therapy, family work, social action, consumer services, and
environmental activism—come, agitate for change!
Numbers are strictly limited to a maximum of 30 participants.
Book early to secure your place.
The Literary
Advocate and Agitator
WRITING AND CREATIVE ARTS FOR
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
27 & 28 June, 2016
Buda Historic Home & Garden, Castlemaine
Where: The Garden Room,
Buda Homestead,
Hunter Street, Castlemaine
When: 9:00am-4:00pm,
27 & 28 June, 2016
Cost: $395.00 inc GST
For further details and to book:
theliteraryadvocate@gmail.com
or (03) 5470 5876

2. Come along and enjoy:
• Buda’s exquisite gardens and homestead—Central Victoria’s premier boutique venue.
• Leila’s delightful home-cooked lunches and morning and afternoon teas.
• The opportunity to explore Castlemaine and the surrounding region with its
vineyards, historic buildings, art galleries and unique shops like The Restorers Barn.
A little more about the facilitators:
Dr Jennifer Lehmann is a senior lecturer in social work at La Trobe University, Bendigo,
the co-editor of the journal Children Australia, and co-director of The Sophics, a freelance
consultancy undertaking projects in areas as diverse as hoarding behaviours and
women’s leadership. Jennifer has a passion for writing that encompasses memoirs and
short stories as well as academic writing. In spare moments she makes artisan cheeses,
gardens, renovates and chucks the ball for her border collie.
Russell Deal is the founder and former director of St Luke’s Innovative Resources, where
he helped create and publish over 60‘conversation-building’card sets such as Strength
Cards and The Bears that are known and loved by practitioners across the world. Russell
has run over 600‘seriously optimistic’strength-based workshops that demonstrate the
possibilities of using creative arts to help change lives. Russell is now the Director of
Metaphors Ink, but is still a compulsive builder of dry-stone walls.
The Venue:
Castlemaine is an old gold rush town in the Mount Alexander Shire, 90 minutes’drive
north of Melbourne. It has a fast train service with regular departures from Southern
Cross Station.
Buda Home and Gardens is located in Hunter Street, and is walking distance from
Castlemaine Station. Free transfers from the station can also be arranged.
Staying here:
The Castlemaine Visitor Information Centre is located in the Old Market Building
in Mostyn Street. Staff can advise on and book accommodation:
Go to www.maldoncastlemaine.com.au or email visitors@mountalexander.vic.gov.au.