Practical advocacy skills, strategies and tools for real-life situations.
Knowing how to advocate gives you confidence to communicate clearly, make informed decisions and stand up for your rights. Whether you're speaking up for yourself, supporting someone else, or working within a system, these guides will help you understand what to say, how to prepare and how to navigate challenging conversations.
Explore the guides below to learn practical skills, everyday examples, communication strategies, campaign tools and the ethical principles of effective advocacy.
Skills, strategies and mindsets for confident advocacy.
How movements create change through collective action.
Real examples of advocacy in daily life.
Create clear, powerful advocacy messages.
Ethical principles for effective advocacy.
A structured learning pathway that builds your knowledge, skills and confidence as an advocate.
This program is designed to introduce you to advocacy from the ground up. You’ll build a strong foundation — learning what advocacy means, where it is used, how to apply it in everyday life, and how to advocate for yourself or others.
The curriculum is organised into five pillars. Each pillar contains short EduGuides you can read in any order, or follow step-by-step as a complete learning journey.
Understand the meaning, language, and everyday uses of advocacy.
View Pillar A →Explore disability, NDIS, legal, child, patient, and systemic advocacy.
View Pillar B →Learn practical advocacy steps — scripts, communication skills, letters, posters.
View Pillar C →Understand the advocacy sector, roles, pathways and organisations.
View Pillar D →Advocacy meanings and systems across languages and regions.
View Pillar E →The program is designed to build your confidence step by step. Follow the suggested learning path below for the most natural progression.
Start with Pillar A to understand what advocacy means and how it is used.
Move to Pillar B and C to explore practical skills across real situations.
Finish with Pillar D and E for career pathways, organisations and cultural contexts.
Start with the meaning of advocacy, then explore how it applies to you.
Begin with Pillar A →