Advocacy Unusual
Getting your policy proposals across effectively is hard in a crowded policy and media space. This is however crucial to fostering the common good.
At Dreamocracy, we believe that lobbying is central to democratic policy making and that we can help constructive interest groups reinvent not only their advocacy strategies, but democracy itself, by mastering and applying the core principles of creativity and collective intelligence.
We help all interest groups that work for the common good by helping them reinvent their lobbying strategies and tactics thanks to creativity techniques.
Why creativity workshops for lobbyists
- Because your world is changing faster than your lobbying strategies.
- Because the other side is distracting society from making the right decisions.
- Because we are all tired of seeing the usual suspects using the same tired arguments.
What
What’s in it for you
- Refresh your advocacy strategies.
- Gain new creativity and management skills.
- Re-energize your team of advocates.
Your creative journey
Is it one of repositioning? And/or of finding new allies? Of looking at your issues and stakeholders differently? Of developing strategies and new tactics? And/or of messaging? Or all of the above? In relation to what topic?
Once this is clear, we decide on the right workshop format and length of time that will allow you to rekindle your imagination and ability to provide innovative answers to your creative challenge(s).
In the workshop, we then train you in divergent and convergent ideation techniques, provide you with relevant inspiration, and introduce ideation and collaboration techniques that enable your team to think outside the proverbial box.
Last but not least, we insist on quality time for convergence, allowing you to decide how to implement your new strategies.
- In person or online.
- In English or in French.
Your creative journey
What is Advocacy Unusual vs. advocacy as usual
From… A defensive or aggressive set of arguments, usually asking for “more” or “less” in reaction to the agenda set by others
To… A forceful, value-based, proactive set of propositions that set the terms of the debate.
From… Churning out the good old policy paper, coalition press statement, set of legislative amendments, and odd conference
To… Grabbing your targets’ attention, who have short attention spans and few opportunities to be surprised
From… You and your networks talking to the same old community of policy makers and allies
To… Exploring alliances with unusual players: different policy fields, coopetition, etc.
Whatever format works for you, we take you from Blablaland to the Right Club
Breaking Good
- 2 hours
- Preliminary creativity diagnostics
Fast & Curious
- 1 day
- 1 moderator
- 100% ideation: focused divergence and convergence phases leading to innovation solutions to a specific creative challenge
Eyes Wide Open
- 2 days
- 1 moderator
- 100% ideation: tons of solutions and an action plan
- Upstream research
- Inspirational case studies
- Innovation map
- Murals
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Back to Your Future
- 4 days
- 2 moderators
- 10% ideation
- Sector-specific expert
- Prep and follow up
- Inspirational case studies
- Innovation map
- Map of unusual stakeholders
- Murals
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Your team
Stephen Boucher
CEO Dreamocracy
Pauline Tawil
Senior Advisor and Project Manager
