Organizing Skills Training for PSAC BC members

Location: PSAC Victoria Regional Office (202 – 503 Park Place, Victoria BC V9A 3P1)

Application Deadline: 4:30 PM PCT on Wednesday, December 9, 2026.

Please note: This training is open to all PSAC BC members in good standing. There are no prerequisites for this training.

This training aims to provide PSAC BC members with basic organizing skills. These skills can be applied to both PSAC external organizing drives (bringing in new members) and internal organizing drives (activating & engaging current members). Some of the topics covered at the traning will include:  

• The difference between organizing and mobilizing, and how they are connected;
• The basic building blocks of organizing: one-on-one conversations;
• Mapping a worksite to identify power structures and natural leaders;
• Identifying opportunities and leveraging them into organizing conversations;
• Building a culture of organizing in your workplace and/or Local.

This training will draw heavily from the ideas and lived experience of participants to enhance the presentations and collective discussions that make up each training module.

The Details:

This two-day training will be held at the PSAC Victoria Regional Office. The PSAC will provide approved participants with travel, accommodation, meal and incidental allowances, loss of salary or leave with pay coverage, and reimbursement of family care costs, in accordance with the PSAC Travel and Family Care Policies.   

Please note that although the training sessions will be held at the PSAC Victoria Regional Office, this training is considered an in-residence training. As such, hotel accommodations will be provided by PSAC for all participants.

Please Note: If a participant chooses not to stay at the hotel for an in-residence training (and instead commutes daily from home), they must request this on their application or at time of confirmation of attendance. The participant would then not be considered in travel status, and they will only be compensated NJC Rates for kilometers and lunch and actual cost of parking. The participant would still be required to attend all evening activities of the in-residence training.   

For Participants on Vancouver Island: you will travel to the PSAC Victoria Regional Office either the evening of Friday, Jan. 29 or the morning of Saturday, Jan. 30, 2027 (depending on the distance from your home), and hotel accommodations will be provided for you on Friday (if applicable) and Saturday evenings.   

For Participants in the Metro Vancouver, East Fraser Valley, North and Southern Interior: you will travel to the Victoria Area on Friday, January 29, 2027. Hotel accommodations will be provided for you on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (if applicable).   

All applicants will be notified in writing by Dec. 23, 2026 if they have been accepted as a participant in this training.  

Please apply for this training using the form below. The application deadline is Wednesday, December 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM Pacific (PCT). Late applications will not be accepted.

Catchment: Regionwide

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