ACCIONA Community Finalist - Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Well done to our ACCIONA Community finalist - Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
170 alumni. Seven cities. Zero cost to participants.
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's Refugee Leadership Program is an eight-day intensive that trains people with lived experience of seeking asylum in advocacy, media, public speaking and digital communication, then sends them out to lead. Delivered in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart and Launceston, deliberately outside the usual east-coast, online-only model, the course is free, removing the financial barrier that keeps leadership training out of reach for many.
Each participant completes an advocacy project of their own choosing: MP meetings, rallies, op-eds, podcasts, media appearances. Graduates then join a nationwide alumni network with Masterclasses, mentoring and access to the ASRC's paid Speakers Program, where they share their expertise on their own terms rather than having their story told for them.
The program exists because, for two decades, public conversation about people seeking asylum has too often happened without them in the room. ASRC set out to change who holds the microphone, and alumni report it: greater confidence, a deeper understanding of Australia's political system, and the sense that their voice is finally being taken seriously.
The X-factor is reach without a paywall. Your postcode or your bank balance shouldn't decide whether you get to develop as a leader.
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