The workshop is designed to combine practical capacity building monitoring skills and interactive applications to foster clean public spaces based on understanding community behaviour.
The 2020 recipient of the KAZZIE Award – Sheila White will be on an Australian-wide community engagement tour sharing her journey through ten years of tracking stories about litter and littering from around the world. Sheila will summarise the narrative of her solo activism to support global collaboration to lower the rate of littering and achieve a healthier planet. Participant's will celebrate a decade of searching for the key to solving society’s unyielding litter problem and personal commitment to keeping the world up-to-date with research, policy and activism in relation to clean communities. Sheila will share with participant's her conclusions about Australian research and initiatives leading the world in influencing changes in disposal behaviour.
Rob Curnow will create an interactive space for participant's to explore their involvement commitment and attachment to local places through learning about and applying models based on 25 years of community psychology action research, working in urban and rural settings to build attachment and enhance community well being. Community Change has evolved a series of strategies for maintaining clean contexts for building social cohesion and involvement that are publicly available and aimed at guiding collaborative community conversations based on qualitative and quantitative citizen science.

Participant's will be provided with web-based assessment guides and tools used to explore locations close to the conference venue. The intention is to demonstrate the assessment process and practice skills that can be shared with local environmental activists and a broad range of concerned members of communities.