By now we are sure you have heard all about our virtual summit: Putting the “A” in Advocacy – Arming Yourself with Knowledge to Effectively Advocate in 2025 Virtual Summit that will take place January 30th – February 3, 2025!
One of the best parts about this event?
IT IS FREE!!!!
We now have 34 different speakers that will be giving 31 different presentations! We had to add speakers to January 30th schedule to accommodate everyone! We are also still waiting to hear from some of our members of Congress. Their time may be a pre-recorded video, but no matter what, we will keep you updated on any additions to the speaking list!
We have added the sign-up links for the individual presentations to our website! We have one speaker, Jetara Sehart, that just committed to the summit last Friday. We will have her link set up in the next day or so! You are welcome to sign up for as many of the speakers as you would like!
PLEASE NOTE: All speaking times listed are in EASTERN TIME!
All of the speakers bios, presentation titles, schedules and any other information you would like to know are all listed on our websites at https://saveourwildhorses.net/2025-wild-horse-summit.html and https://chwha.org/2025-wild-horse-summit/.
We are very excited about this event!
Many of you have said you wished this was in person. That would be great! But truthfully, our goal is to reach as many people as possible and honestly, many people cannot afford to travel to these events or have health restrictions that would exclude them from an in-person event. We would also not be able to do this for FREE – as costs for event space, promotion, etc. would have to be factored in. NOT TO MENTION – working on a date that worked for ALL 34 DIFFERENT speakers’ schedules – including travel!
This is our first crack at this, and we look forward to hearing your feedback after the summit! In fact, we will have a quick 2-minute survey for you to take to help us measure the success of this event. As with anything, hopefully this will continue to grow and evolve into something even better next year!
If you are one of those people who are concerned about being able to keep your attention span together for 5 days’ worth of presentations – NO WORRIES! We do plan on posting the videos of each of the presentations on our YouTube channels! That will allow you to take in the summit at your own pace or even revisit some presentations if you want! Please note that we are at the mercy of the technology gods on this one!
Each presenter will allow at least 30 minutes for questions after their presentation. Either Heather, Jen or I will be moderating each presentation and Q&A session. We do ask that everyone be respectful of each speaker, even if you may not agree with their particular form of advocacy! We appreciate every single one of our speakers and appreciate the time they are giving to this summit!
Over the next few weeks leading up to the summit, we will be sharing social media posts highlighting each of our individual speakers!
We do understand that in our Zoom/Teams/ virtual society, that human interaction portion gets missed sometimes!
For that reason:
We do invite you to comment on the social media post you found this blog on and let us know:
- What you are looking forward to most about this summit!
- How many speakers you signed up for!
- Which speaker you are looking forward to the most!
- Are you planning on joining us for the Wild Beauty Watch Party?
- After the summit – come back and let us know what you thought!
- Engage with each other and share your thoughts about each other’s comments on this and all of our summit posts!
- Publicly share our summit posts!
- When you come back and share your thoughts after the summit, let us know you took our survey!
Just because we are not all standing in the same room, doesn’t mean we can’t have meaningful conversations! (Again, please remember to remain respectful! Disrespectful comments will be deleted and won’t count!)
To help make this a little more fun…
Every time you do any of the 8 things listed above, you will be entered in a drawing to win a small prize each week for the next 4 weeks! We will draw winners 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, and 2/8!
How it will work:
Every time you do any of the 8 actions listed, your name will get entered to win a prize. The more you participate, the more times your name will be entered – AND STAY ENTERED for the ENTIRE 4 weeks!
Every time you engage in a conversation with someone on one of our summit posts, your name will be entered to win a prize! Every time you share one of our summit posts, your name will be entered to win a prize! Every time you do ANY or ALL of the 8 items listed above – your name will be entered to win a prize!
This Saturday, 1/18/25, we will be giving away 4 (FOUR!) Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocate 2025 calendars!
If you don’t win this week, all of your names will stay in for next week’s drawing – AND each week will give you a chance to add more chances to win!
We hope this helps bring some added fun to what we hope will be an amazing event!
What do you say? Let us hear from you!
Thank you for your support and have a great week!
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