2025 Western Regional SUMMER INSTITUTE for UNION WOMEN - BCFED - Burnaby, Canada, June 22-26, 2025

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Courses and workshops

Core Courses:

  • Organizing
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Women in Leadership
  • Mental Health First Aid
  • Globalization and Immigration
  • Digital Organizing and Strategy
  • Free Trade Economics
  • Labour Activism: Finding your space in the resistance and building the union
  • Constructive Confrontation: Interrupting oppressive moments

Workshops:

  • Sharing your story
  • How to Craft a good land acknowledgement
  • IGBA – Intersectional Gender Based Analysis
  • Building movements for Queer and Trans Liberation
  • Artful Resistance -using creative and musical techniques to build solidarity
  • Self and community care – building radical interdependence
  • Triage and Connection in times of retrenchment
  • Integrating gender in to occupational health and safety
  • Case studies of successful movements – wins of the past year and decade
  • Running for leadership
  • Looking for gender equity language in contracts and bylaws
  • Resisting the oligarchy
  • Herstory – women and gender diverse people in labour history
  • Women for climate action and justice
  • Anti-Oppression 101
  • Quiet space, meditation and reflection
  • Our bodies, our resistance – using Yoga techniques to ground centre and recharge