SIAA facilitates many training events, roundtables, and information sharing sessions specifically intended for independent advocacy organisations. These events are member-only and designed to provide you with new skills, build organisational capacity and provide an opportunity for you to share your views on key policy topics relevant to human rights and independent advocacy.
SIAA also run regular online peer support sessions. The peer support sessions are informal opportunities for you to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support. We run sessions for managers and sessions for staff once a month.
Find out more about upcoming events and peer support sessions, and sign up below!
We want the topics of our peer support sessions to be member-led and reflect your changing priorities and concerns. This session will provide a chance for you to discuss current issues (as well as offer and ask for support) and help establish your priorities for future topic-based sessions.
We will start with a slot for ‘reflective practice’, taking place in small groups, without an SIAA staff member present. This will be followed by a whole-group discussion, facilitated by SIAA staff, in which staff can share expertise about non-instructed advocacy, including what has changed around non-instructed advocacy since the beginning of the pandemic.
Please use this form to sign up, for the peer support for managers session which will take place on Tuesday 3 August, 3.30-4.30 pm, which will look at 'managing capacity'.
Please use this form to sign up, and we will email you details of the Zoom call on which will take place on Tuesday 24 August, 3.30-4.30 pm, looking at the topic of volunteers.
Peer support sessions are informal opportunities for managers at SIAA member organisations to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support. This session will focus on leadership.
Peer support sessions are informal opportunities for staff at SIAA member organisations to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support. This session is particularly aimed at independent advocates who work with children and young people.
Peer support sessions are informal opportunities for managers at SIAA member organisations to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support. This session will focus on workplace culture.
Peer support sessions are informal opportunities for staff at SIAA member organisations to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support. Around four times a year we run peer support sessions that act as check-ins with members to discuss current issues and provide a place to reflect.
Peer support sessions are informal opportunities for managers at SIAA member organisations to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support. Around four times a year we run peer support sessions that act as check-ins with members to discuss current issues and provide a place to reflect.
In this session members can share expertise about using human rights in their every day practice, and being human rights defenders - particularly in light of human rights moving higher up the agenda in Scotland.
Peer support sessions are informal opportunities for managers at SIAA member organisations to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support.
Peer support sessions are informal opportunities for staff at SIAA member organisations to meet colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and provide mutual support.
I’ve found the Managers Peer to Peer support sessions invaluable; it feels supportive and safe and as a relatively new CEO it really has helped build my confidence as well as relationships with peers. Thank you.
SIAA member, 2022
I have enjoyed the SIAA training events I have attended and I have been able to attend more than I would have in the past due to courses being on zoom etc.
SIAA member, 2022
I found it really helpful to be connected to a larger group and to hear the variety of perspectives from others as we all face the impact of the coronavirus on our organisations, people, clients and key stakeholders.
SIAA member, 2020
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