Get involved in a community conversation

Running a conversation project is a great way for people to learn about the issues affecting people seeking asylum, and join the discussion about how we can be treating people with dignity and respect. These small-scale, personal conversations are often one of the most effective ways to encourage someone to change their position on an issue. The #RightTrack Community Conversation project uses evidence-based materials to enable people to run conversations with their friends, family, colleagues, parishioners and others. We can provide you with a number of resource to run a conversation. There are three roles you can take in being involved in this project:


Attend and bring a Friend

Interested in learning more about issues affecting people seeking asylum? Want to be part of a discussion about how we can be treating people with dignity and respect?

Attending a #RightTrack community conversation is a great way to do these thing.

Why not bring a friend along you think might be interested? We will be in touch once an event is scheduled in your local area. If you are feeling confident, why not consider hosting a conversation yourself?

Host

Have some extra time and energy to spare?

Why not commit to helping us make a conversation happen in your local area? Hosting a conversation means you help us find a venue for the conversation to happen and invite the guests.

It could be as simple as hosting it in your lounge room and inviting 8-10 of your friends who you know might be interested. Or it could involve booking a room at your local neighbourhood house and inviting people from the local RSL. We can support you through this.

Without hosts, community conversations can't happen! It is a very important role.

Facilitate

Facilitators are very important for the #RightTrack community conversations. You will attend a training session and facilitate the conversation with a small group of peolpe. You will help explain certain things to people and ask them to share their views about how we should treat people seeking asylum.

Training will happen around the country. We ask that you commit to hosting at least a few conversations. This will mean you will improve your own skills in the area and help us host more conversations.

CAPSA wants to facilitate 50 community conversations nationally by the end of July 2017 - you can help us make that happen!