Advancing Social Justice through Developing your Leadership Capacity and Community Organization Skills

Please note, anyone registering is free to attend one or both sessions.

McLaughlin College

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University

Join Olivia Chow, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University and a Fellow of McLaughlin College, and the members of her Institute of Change Leaders (ICL) as they deliver a highly interactive two-day joint session with students from Ryerson University, Trent University, in collaboration with a number of NGOs and advocacy groups, including Hong Kong Link entitled.

ADVANCING SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH DEVELOPING YOUR LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION SKILLS

Monday, February 22, 2021, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Realizing and Building your Leadership Potential and Skills

This session will focus on how to identify your innate leadership abilities and potential and how to develop these further in order to advance the “common good” on those things that move you the most. 

The session will also introduce you to Harvard University Professor Marshall Ganz’s, the Rita T. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organization, and Civil Society, “Model for Community Organization.” It will demonstrate how through your personal initiative and effort you can mobilize support and action to further social justice causes and to affect positive change that will benefit your community.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Taking Positive Action to Advance the United Nation’s 

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

How can you individually and together with others help to advance one or more the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? This session will outline the positive steps that you can take to help to further the SDGs and in doing so further positive social change in your local community.

The session will illustrate how others have initiated simple and practical measures to effect positive change on various SDG goals such as Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 5: Gender Equality, … Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, … Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, … Goal 13: Climate Action, … Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, and so on.