Advocacy Unusual – Add a voice not noise

• You struggle to stand out or constantly need to reinvent strategies in a world that’s changing ever faster.
• The political context is increasingly polarised and the other side is distracting society from making the right decisions. 
• You are tired of seeing the usual suspects using the same tired arguments.

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. 

Advocacy Unusual delivers:

• Forceful, value-based, proactive propositions that shape the debate.
• Refreshed  strategies and tactics that grab your audience’s’ attention.
• New alliances and collaboration with unexpected players.

Thanks to our workshops and coaching and our creative problem solving methods, you will:

• Equip your team, trigger positive group dynamics.
• Better manage polarised environments.
• Grab your audiences’ attention with narratives and messages that resonate.
• Overcome policy deadblocks with novel policy asks. 
• Make new allies.
• Design impactful events.
• Reframe the policy agenda.

Creative Problem Solmving is a powerful approach to cultivate creativity and develop original solutions. It is needed when a group facing a complex problem wishes to broaden the scope of solutions at hand in order to get out of “business as usual” and seek new potential strategies, allies or partners to implement those solutions.

What we will do together

• Inspire you with other successful campaigns in other contexts.
• Train you in ideation techniques  such as Reverse thinking, Crazy 8’s, Dream parties, Idea Shaker, Photo-language, etc. 
• Equip you with creative facilitation methods such as brainwriting, Bono’s Hats, World Café, etc.
• Help you organise differently so that you collaborate and think outside the box.
• Counsel you to implement your new strategies and nurture new ways of thinking.

“The Dreamocracy training ‘Advocacy Unusual’ gave me some very concrete tools to integrate creativity and collective brainstorming more actively into our communications work as a Brussels-based NGO, all the while being one of the most stimulating and fun trainings that I have participated in. It has helped me push boundaries with my team when planning campaigns, to generate more ideas, think outside of the box and tap into everyone’s creative potential.”