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Certificates and component modules

List of Certificates and component modules:

A Certificate can be earned by combining any five modules from those listed within that Certificate.  The most common form of ERISJ module is a 1-day Intensive. 

Introduction to Social Justice

  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • Non-Violent Direct Action: Principles and Practice
  • Utopia's Shadow: Just Societies, New Possibilities, Old Pathologies (annually from 2009)
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Politics, Participartory Democracy and and Social Justice

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Social Justice and Popular Culture

  • Just Music: Perth's Annual Concert for Human Rights
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Kimberley Immersion (includes engagement with indigenous artistic life and meaning systems)
  • Politics, Participatory Democarcy and Social Justice
  • The Fine Arts and Social Justice (Seminar and Exhibition) (anually from 2009)
  • Literature and the Ethical Imagination
  • Advocacy and Media Skills for Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • Introduction to Media Analysis (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Preparation for Social Action: Part I

  • ERISJ Volunteer Training
  • ERISJ (or other) Volunteer Experience
  • Participation in one Immersion of your choice
  • Building Partnerships, Sharing Resources
  • Working With Aboriginal Communities
  • Induction Methods into Social Justice
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Policies, Participatory Democracy and Social Justice
  • Non-Violent Direct Action: Principles and Practice

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Preparation for Social Action: Part II

  • Advocacy and Media Skills for Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • Meditation Skills for Inner Peace, Healing and Joy (9x3 hour sessions)
  • International Human Rights: Systems, Laws and Entitlements (annually from 2009)
  • Seeing Truly: Australia and New Zealand as Distinct Modernities (annually from 2009)
  • Embracing Silence: Monsters, Mayhem and Meditation (4x3 hour sessions) (annually from 2009)
  • Introduction to Media Analysis (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

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Service Learning and Community Service: Skills for Educators and Host Organisations

  • Working With Aboriginal Communities
  • Two ERISJ Immersions of your choice
  • Community Service and Service Learning: Objectives, Skills and Experiences
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • Leading, Training and Managing Volunteers
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Volunteer Readiness

  • ERISJ Information Night
  • ERISJ Volunteer Training
  • Perth and Poverty Immersion
  • From Trauma to Resilience: Techniques of Transformation
  • ERISJ New Staff and Volunteer Induction
  • Meditation Skills for Inner Peace, Healing and Joy (9x3 hour sessions)
  • Embracing Silence: Monsters, Mayhem and Meditation (4x3 hour sessions) (annually from 2009)
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Skills for Social Analysis

  • Participation in one ERISJ Immersion of your choice
  • Preparation Days for two ERISJ International Immersions of your choice
  • Working With Aboriginal Communities
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • It’s the Economy, Stupid: Political Economy and Structural Analysis
  • Policies, Participatory Democracy and Social Justice
  • Seeing Truly: Australia and New Zealand as Distinct Modernities (annually from 2009)
  • Stakeholders, Consultation and the Public Interest: Challenges for Democratic Politics (annually from 2009)
  • Thinking Skills and Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • International Human Rights: Systems, Laws and Entitlements (annually from 2009)
  • Introduction to Media Analysis (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Power, Poverty, Rights and the International System

  • Status of Women in African Societies: Myths and Realities
  • Hope in the Midst of Suffering: Success Stories from Africa
  • Development Models as Imported 'Wisdom': Finding space for African Thought
  • Governance and Accountability: Current Debates in Developing Nations
  • Trade Unions in the Global South: Emergent Strategies and Action
  • It’s the Economy, Stupid: Political Economy and Structural Analysis
  • Utopia's Shadow: Just Societies, New Possibilities, Old Pathologies (annually from 2009)
  • Stakeholders, Consultation and the Public Interest: Challenges for Democratic Politics (annually from 2009)
  • International Human Rights: Systems, Laws and Entitlements (annually from 2009)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Preparation for Community-based and Volunteer work in a Developing Country

  • Building Partnerships, Sharing Resources
  • Introduction to Swahili language adn Tanzanian culture (3x2 hour sessions)
  • Introduction to Tetum language and Timorese culture (3x2 hour sessions)
  • Introduction to Hindi language and Indian culture (3x2 hour sessions)
  • Status of Women in African Societies: Myths and Realities
  • Hope in the Midst of Suffering: Success Stories from Africa
  • Development Models as Imported 'Wisdom': Finding space for African Thought
  • Governance and Accountability: Current Debates in Developing Nations
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Community Service and Service Learning: Objectives, Skills and Experiences
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • Leading, Training and Managing Volunteers
  • Trade Unions in the Global South: Emergent Strategies and Action
  • It’s the Economy, Stupid: Political Economy and Structural Analysis
  • Case Studies from the Global Periphery: Connecting States and Markets
  • Stakeholders, Consultation and the Public Interest: Challenges for Democratic Politics (annually from 2009)
  • International Human Rights: Systems, Laws and Entitlements (annually from 2009)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

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Leadership and Governance Skills for Domestic and International NGOs

  • Building Partnerships, Sharing Resources
  • Leadership Skills for Not-for-Profit Organisations
  • Between Governance and Mission-Centricity: Challenges for Not-For-Profit Managers and Boards
  • Governance and Accountability: Current Debates in Developing Nations
  • Leading, Training and Managing Volunteers
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Community Service and Service Learning: Objectives, Skills and Experiences
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • Stakeholders, Consultation and the Public Interest: Challenges for Democratic Politics (annually from 2009)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Social Justice as Unrealised Promise: Concepts, Traditions, Possibilities

  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • Trade Unions in the Global South: Emergent Strategies and Action
  • Thinking Skills and Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • International Human Rights: Systems, Laws and Entitlements (annually from 2009)
  • Global Justice and Critical Cosmopolitanism: Fuyuki Kurasawa, Part I (annually from 2009)
  • Human Rgihts as Five Key Practices - Strategies and Challenges: Fuyuki Kurasawa, Part II (annually from 2009)
  • Seeing Truly: Australia and New Zealand as Distinct Modernities (annually from 2009)
  • Utopia's Shadow: Just Societies, New Possibilities, Old Pathologies (annually from 2009)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Environmental Engagement

  • Kimberley Immersion (includes extensive engagement with Aboriginal relationships with flora, fauna and the natural world)
  • Partnering the Earth
  • Environment and Sustainabiligy: Rising to the Challenge
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Advocacy and Media Skills for Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • Thinking Skills and Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • Leading-Edge Developments in Sustainability and Urban Policy
  • Stakeholders, Consultation and the Public Interest: Challenges for Democratic Politics (annually from 2009)
  • Interrogating Environmentalism: Economics, Hard Science & Public Policy (annually from 2010)
  • Introduction to Media Analysis (annually from 2010)
  • Values-based Approaches to Social Justice: Seven World-Views (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Introduction to Indigenous Australia

  • Working With Aboriginal Communities
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • Kimberley Immersion (includes engagement with indigenous artistic life and meaning systems)
  • In Conversation with Indigenous Leaders (2 days; Day 3 for Indigenous people only) (annually from 2009)
  • Introduction to Aboriginal Spiritualities (annually from 2009)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Leading-Edge Indigenous Developments

  • Volunteer placement or Internship with ERISJ International Initiative for Indigenous Aspirations 
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • In Conversation with Indigenous Leaders (2 days; Day 3 for Indigenous people only) (annually from 2009)
  • Thinking Skills and Social Justice (annually from 2009)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Indigenous Leadership (for Indigenous women and men aged 16 and above)

  • From Trauma to Resilience: Techniques of Transformation
  • Building Partnerships, Sharing Resources
  • Non-Violent Direct Action: Principles and Practice
  • Meditation Skills for Inner Peace, Healing and Joy (9x3 hour sessions)
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Politics, Participatory Democracy and Social Justice
  • Aboriginal Women's Trip to NZ to work with Maori women leaders
  • Advocacy and Media Skills for Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • In Conversation with Indigenous Leaders (2 days; Day 3 for Indigenous people only) (annually from 2009)
  • Stakeholders, Consultation and the Public Interest: Challenges for Democratic Politics (annually from 2009)
  • Introduction to Aboriginal Spiritualities (annually from 2009)
  • Embracing Silence: Monsters, Mayhem and Meditation (4x3 hour sessions) (annually from 2009)
  • Values-based Approacheds to Social Justice: Seven World-Views (annually from 2010)
  • Introduction to Media Analysis (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Indigenous Women’s Program

  • Journey of Healing Activities
  • Domestic Violence Program
  • Indigenous Women’s Network
  • From Trauma to Resilience: Techniques of Transformation
  • Building Partnerships, Sharing Resources
  • Just Music: Perth's Annual Concert for Human Rights
  • Meditation Skills for Inner Peace, Healing and Joy
  • Non-Violent Direct Action: Principles and Practice
  • Aboriginal Women's Trip to NZ to work with Maori women leaders
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Introduction to Aboriginal Spiritualities (annually from 2009)
  • Introduction to Media Analysis (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

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Management Skills for Indigenous Individuals and Organisations

  • Accountable and Transparent Service Delivery
  • Navigating the World of Funding and Sustainability
  • Building Partnerships, Sharing Resources
  • From Trauma to Resilience: Techniques of Transformation
  • Non-Violent Direct Action: Principles and Practice
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Politics, Participatory Democracy and Social Justice
  • In Conversation with Indigenous Leaders (2 days; Day 3 for Indigenous people only) (annually from 2009)
  • Stakeholders, Consultation and the Public Interest: Challenges for Democratic Politics (annually from 2009)
  • Introduction to Media Analysis (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Resilience for Social Justice Work

  • ERISJ Volunteer Training
  • Building Partnerships, Sharing Resources
  • From Trauma to Resilience: Techniques of Transformation
  • Non-Violent Direct Action: Principles and Practice
  • Just Music: Perth's Annual Concert for Human Rights
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • The Fine Arts and Social Justice (Seminar and Exhibition) (annually from 2009)
  • Being in the World: Pace e Bene’s Insights
  • Meditation Skills for Inner Peace, Healing and Joy
  • Literature and the Ethical Imagination
  • Embracing Silence: Monsters, Mayhem and Meditation (4x3 hour sessions) (annually from 2009)
  • Values-based Approaches to Social Justice: Seven World-Views (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Understanding Political and Policy Environments

  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • It’s the Economy, Stupid: Political Economy and Structural Analysis
  • Case Studies from the Global Periphery: Connecting States and Markets
  • Community Campaigning and Activism: Strategies and Tools for building a better world
  • Politics, Participatory Democracy and Social Justice
  • Seeing Truly: Australia and New Zealand as Distinct Modernities
  • Thinking Skills and Social Justice
  • International Human Rights: Systems, Laws and Entitlements (annually from 2009)
  • Advocacy and Media Skills for Social Justice (2009)
  • In Conversation with Indigenous Leaders (2 days; Day 3 for Indigenous people only) (annually from 2009)
  • Leading-Edge Developments in Sustainability and Urban Policy
  • Stakeholders, Consultation and the Public Interest: Challenges for Democratic Politics (annually from 2009)
  • Introduction to Media Analysis (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

The Vision Thing: Affirming Creativity, Affirming Hope

  • Leading-Edge Developments in Sustainability and Technology
  • Thinking Skills and Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • In Conversation with Indigenous Leaders (2 days; Day 3 for Indigenous people only) (annually from 2009)
  • Global Justice and Critical Cosmopolitanism: Fuyuki Kurasawa, Part I (annually from 2009)
  • Human Rights as Five Key Practices - Strategies and Challenges: Fuyuki Kurasawa, Part II (annually from 2009)
  • Seeing Truly: Australia and New Zealand as Distinct Modernities (annually from 2009)
  • Utopia's Shadow: Just Societies, New Possibilities, Old Pathologies (annually from 2009)
  • International Human Rights: Systems, Laws and Entitlements (annually from 2009)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Faith-Based Approaches to Social Justice: Scripture and Theology

  • Church Understandings of Social Justice (annual 3-day ecumenical national conference)
  • Justice and Social Teaching (Four-day intensive, for Masters & PhD students only) (annually from 2009)
  • Scriptural Traditions of Social Justice (Jewish & Christian) (annually from 2010)
  • Values-based Approaches to Social Justice: Seven World-Views (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Faith-Based Approaches to Social Justice: Spirituality

  • From Trauma to Resilience: Techniques of Transformation
  • Social Justice and Spirituality Retreat (5 days, non-residential, ERISJ)
  • A Spirituality of Human Dignity
  • Being in the World: Pace e Bene’s Insights
  • Meditation Skills for Inner Peace, Healing and Joy
  • Leadership Development in Faith-based Social Justice Organisations
  • Embracing Silence: Monsters, Mayhem and Meditation (4x3 hour sessions) (annually from 2009)
  • Introduction to Aboriginal Spiritualities (annually from 2009)
  • Values-based Approaches to Social Justice: Seven World-Views (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

Certificate of Environmental Engagement

  • Kimberley Immersion
  • Partnering the Earth
  • Leading-Edge Developments in Sustainability and Technology
  • Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice
  • Community Consultation, Participatory Deliberation: Why and How (annually from 2009)
  • Advocacy and Media Skills for Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • Knowing the Ground-Rules: Politics and Policy (annually from 2009)
  • Thinking Skills and Social Justice (annually from 2009)
  • Interrogating Environmentalism: Economics, Hard Science & Public Policy (annually from 2010)
  • Introduction to Media Analysis (annually from 2010)
  • Values-based Approaches to Social Justice: Seven World-Views (annually from 2010)

Each bullet point indicates one module (usually a one-day Intensive).  To obtain a Certificate, you combine any five modules.

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Social Justice Volunteering
Volunteer work is available at the ERISJ.  Position Description Forms for vacant positions for ERISJ Volunteers can be found at www.erisj.org.au. Alternately, we are happy to create a new position around your interests and skills.  Prerequisite ERISJ Certificates: Volunteer Readiness

Social Justice Internship at the ERISJ
Internships of 3 months or more are available at the ERISJ.  Prerequisite ERISJ Certificates: Introduction to Social Justice; Volunteer Readiness; Preparation for Social Action; and Skills for Social Analysis.

Social Justice Secondment (2008)
Be seconded to the Edmund Rice Institute for Social Justice, Fremantle, for a period of
your choosing (minimum one month). If you are currently in paid employment, your
employer continues to pay your salary, or you take unpaid leave of absence. You will
bring skills that we need, probably for a particular project. You (and your employer if
pertinent) can thereby provide substantial community service - and acquire new skills
and insights. This period may also provide inspiration and rejuvenation for you – and,
indirectly, perhaps your colleagues, friends and family.  Prerequisite ERISJ Certificates: Introduction to Social Justice; Volunteer Readiness;Preparation for Social Action; and Skills for Social Analysis.

International Social Justice Internship (2011)
From 2010, we can place Interns with international human rights and similar
organisations in three continents. Prerequisite ERISJ Certificates: Introduction to Social Justice; Volunteer Readiness; Preparation for Social Action; Skills for Social Analysis.