It’s 2025 and halfway through your term!! Are you overwhelmed? Not getting to your policy priorities?
Every elected official comes in with the best of intentions, but a lack of time, tools or confidence can hold you back from making progress on the issues you ran for office to champion.
The good news is that whether you just need a bit of a refresh or you need to get whipped back into shape, we can help!
The 2025 Climate Leaders Program has a new offering:
The Climate Leaders Boot Camp!
2025 Climate Leaders Boot Camp will be a series of facilitated group sessions consisting of five meetings over Zoom led by Andrea Reimer, Tawâw Strategies (former Councillor, City of Vancouver) and with guest Norman Gludovatz on Public Narrative.
Participants must register for this series and be able make every effort to attend all five sessions to get the most out of it and complete two to four hours of field work per month that includes pre-reading and/or post session study activities. The session webinar topics are:
Wednesday, April 2, 4 to 6 pm Pacific Time
One of the biggest challenges in elected office is just managing the sheer volume of work. This webinar will look at the basics: managing the demands on your time, setting up a good digital filing system, and maintaining and growing your relationships while staying focused on your key priorities.
Wednesday, April 16, 4 to 6 pm Pacific Time
How many times have you seen great ideas take much longer to come to fruition than they needed to, or even fail all together, because people or internal politics got in the way? It doesn’t have to be that way! This webinar will give you a foundation in understanding different kinds of power bases and provides you with tools to observe, map and effectively navigate power structures.
Wednesday, April 30, 4 to 6 pm Pacific Time
A key tool for mobilizing change is being able to connect your story with that of your community in a way that points to effective collective solutions. This webinar will walk you through the public narrative approach developed by Marshall Ganz to give you a framework for connecting your key priorities with community priorities in a way that connects with hearts and minds.
Wednesday, May 14, 4 to 6 pm Pacific Time
Understanding and observing power is the first step: learning how to pull different power bases together into an effective coalition is ultimately the goal of successful policymakers. This webinar will give you tools to build and maintain coalitions that can work across different perspectives and lived experiences.
Wednesday, May 28, 4 to 6 pm Pacific Time
As a publicly elected official, people expect that you are regularly connecting with them about the work you’re doing on their behalf. When managed well, this can also be a great strength of your work. This webinar will look at the basics of setting up a communications plan that matches your strengths with your community’s needs.
The program is open to all local government elected officials and Indigenous leaders. With much gratitude to our funders, this Boot Camp is offered free to elected officials and Indigenous leaders, but the value is immeasurable, so sign up now. Thank you to BC Hydro, the Real Estate Foundation of BC, and Vancity for their ongoing support of elected leaders programming.
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