Rogue Campaigning
Venue Video: A Beautiful Mess.
Amsterdam
Strategy Studio
16 - 18 June 2026
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Max 25 participants
Today’s campaigning landscape is louder, faster, and more polarised than ever. Traditional campaigning tools are struggling to compete with cultural noise, disinformation, and shrinking public attention. To win in this moment, we need something different: creativity, clarity, cultural fluency, and campaigns designed to cut through.
This 3-Day Rogue Campaigning Studio is a practical, immersive experience for changemakers who want to upgrade how they design and deliver impact. Through the Rogue Campaigning method every participant will walk away with a tested creative campaign prototype they can immediately start refining with their teams.
What makes this different
This Strategy Studio is not your average training. It’s a 6-step method designed for the messy, political, under-resourced realities of social and environmental justice campaigning. It blends:
Strategic clarity with creative boldness
Science-backed tools with playful experimentation
Structure with space to imagine new ways of doing the work
WHO IS THIS FOR
This is for advocacy and campaign leads, organisers, movement builders and communicators designing change efforts, especially in tough political contexts, who want sharper strategy, stronger narratives, and renewed purpose.
Ideal for teams working in: campaigns and advocacy, mobilisation and public education, strategic communications, movement building, narrative change, and policy influence.
Format and Schedule
In-person
16 - 18 June 2026
Venue: “A Beautiful Mess” is more than a restaurant, more than a cozy place. It’s a safe space for people from all backgrounds to learn, connect, and build a community where everyone belongs. 14 minutes walk from Amsterdam Centraal Station.
Daily start time: 9am
Daily end time: 4:30pm.
What you’ll receive
A creative campaign strategy and prototype (your “Rogue Map”) tailored to your real-world issue
Hands-on tools for mapping power, crafting messages, and designing tactics
12 month membership to the Rogue Campaigning online course and community, where regular events help you practice and strengthen your new campaigning muscles with fellow Rogue Campaigners (normally priced at €249)
1 hour post-Studio call with instructor
A renewed sense of courage, joy, and possibility in their work
What we ask from you
To get the most out of this Studio, we invite participants to bring:
A current or upcoming campaign you want to develop
Curiosity, openness, and a willingness to experiment. Come ready to think, feel, unlearn, and imagine.
Course Instructor
PRICE
Price
€750
€750
This fee is inclusive of 12-month access to the Rogue Campaigning community and self-paced course (normally priced at €249).
VOICES FROM
THE ROGUES
VOICES FROM
THE ROGUES
“Ishtar is radical, joyful, fun and very experienced. She has lived and breathed the approaches that she teaches, and her fierce and playful spirit is contagious. She has a gift for guiding people into their own creativity. Working with Ishtar is sure to leave you feeling bolder, empowered and inspired. Careful though: she’s likely to release your inner mischief maker, she’s definitely going to change the way you think about change and you certainly won’t get away without laughing.”
Lucas Paulson
Collaboration Lead at Spring Strategies
“Ishtar has an infectious spirit of creativity and a skillfully strategic mind. Working with her is like lighting a match in a room full of wet ideas, suddenly everything catches fire. Her blend of strategic mischief, deep care, and creative rebellion has a way of making impossible things feel inevitable. Somehow she made rebellion feel like an act of deep care. I walked away from every campaign or workshop feeling braver, bolder, and more in love with the work. Seeing examples of creative activism from around the world just solidified that this is the only way to campaign. Be ready to dream and see real impact!”
Ivana Merckel
Senior Atlantic Fellow at Atlantic Institute
“I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Ishtar for many years, through some of the most challenging, creative, and meaningful advocacy efforts of my career. Our collaboration has spanned high-level advocacy, campaign design, policy submissions, and public engagement, often under enormous pressure and in emotionally charged environments. And through all of it, Ishtar has been a steady force. She has a rare ability to move between legal, emotional, and political terrain, without dropping the thread. She brings people together, she helps clarify what matters, and has an incredible gift for making the complex feel human and urgent.”
Stacey-Leigh Manuel
Deputy Director, Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
“I’m deeply grateful to Ishtar for the incredible support and encouragement she offered the Kenya CSO coalition in developing our advocacy and campaigning skills. Her passion, creativity, and unwavering belief in our potential turned what could have been a daunting learning curve into an exciting, confidence-building journey. Personally, Ishtar didn’t just teach me, she made the process genuinely fun and inspiring, and I’ll always carry that experience with me. I look forward to more learning as comrades in the human rights space in Africa.”
Catherine Mbui
Civic Space Advocate at Article19 East Africa
"It has been 10 years of collaborating on issues that have been close to our collective hearts: sex worker rights, state capture, health xenophobia, GBV, US funding cuts to global health, and others and 10 years of inspiration and benefiting from her wisdom and energy. Working with Ishtar means focusing with laser sharpness on the issue at hand, while acknowledging the heaviness of it, but not letting these emotions immobilise one. She has taught me to creatively use sadness and anger, and to channel those into opportunities for dreaming, fantasy, lightness and subversion. To harness these to craft innovative advocacy strategies, and then to implement these by playing with exuberance and laughing with abandon while making fire under the bums of the status quo.”
Marlise Richter
Activist, Researcher & Tea Connoisseur
“While I was at the European Environmental Bureau in Brussels, we brought Ishtar in to lead an advocacy training for global policymakers campaigning against the EU’s export of banned pesticides. She brought both heart and expertise to that table. Ishtar’s facilitation was unforgettable. She has a rare way with people, combining boldness and courage with deep knowledge and a healthy dose of realism. Vivid, sharp, and grounded, she made a lasting impact. That coalition is still going strong today, thanks in no small part to her spark. Ishtar is an extraordinary facilitator and genuinely fun to work with: brilliant, bold, wildly creative, and deeply strategic. She combines knowledge and charm, insight and humor and sessions with her leave you energized, equipped, and ready to take on the world.”
Andreea-Corina Anca
Senior Communications Specialist at Energy Community
How to sign up
To secure a place for yourself or your team:
Fill out the registration form.
You will receive a confirmation of your attendance from us, along with your invoice and payment instructions.
You’ll have 10 days from the date you receive the invoice to complete the payment and secure your spot.
If you’re signing up as a team or through your organisation and you’d like the invoice issued in your organisation’s name, simply include those details in the registration form.
Deadline
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis. We will close registrations once all the spots are taken, so do sign up quickly.
Cancellation Policy
We get that life happens and we genuinely want to offer as much flexibility as possible. Because spots are limited and late cancellations affect the venue, the group, and the waitlist, our policy is:
Until 30 May 2026: 100% refund
1–10 June 2026: 50% refund
From 11 June 2026: no refunds
Exception: If we can fill your spot from the waitlist, you’ll receive a 100% refund, regardless of the date.
Rogue Campaigning
Venue Video: A Beautiful Mess.
Amsterdam
Strategy Studio
16 - 18 June 2026
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Max 25 participants
Today’s campaigning landscape is louder, faster, and more polarised than ever. Traditional campaigning tools are struggling to compete with cultural noise, disinformation, and shrinking public attention. To win in this moment, we need something different: creativity, clarity, cultural fluency, and campaigns designed to cut through.
This 3-Day Rogue Campaigning Studio is a practical, immersive experience for changemakers who want to upgrade how they design and deliver impact. Through the Rogue Campaigning method every participant will walk away with a tested creative campaign prototype they can immediately start refining with their teams.
What makes this different
This Strategy Studio is not your average training. It’s a 6-step method designed for the messy, political, under-resourced realities of social and environmental justice campaigning. It blends:
Strategic clarity with creative boldness
Science-backed tools with playful experimentation
Structure with space to imagine new ways of doing the work
WHO IS THIS FOR
This is for advocacy and campaign leads, organisers, movement builders and communicators designing change efforts, especially in tough political contexts, who want sharper strategy, stronger narratives, and renewed purpose.
Ideal for teams working in: campaigns and advocacy, mobilisation and public education, strategic communications, movement building, narrative change, and policy influence.
Format and Schedule
In-person
16 - 18 June 2026
Venue: “A Beautiful Mess” is more than a restaurant, more than a cozy place. It’s a safe space for people from all backgrounds to learn, connect, and build a community where everyone belongs. 14 minutes walk from Amsterdam Centraal Station.
Daily start time: 9am
Daily end time: 4:30pm.
What you’ll receive
A creative campaign strategy and prototype (your “Rogue Map”) tailored to your real-world issue
Hands-on tools for mapping power, crafting messages, and designing tactics
12 month membership to the Rogue Campaigning online course and community, where regular events help you practice and strengthen your new campaigning muscles with fellow Rogue Campaigners (normally priced at €249)
1 hour post-Studio call with instructor
A renewed sense of courage, joy, and possibility in their work
What we ask from you
To get the most out of this Studio, we invite participants to bring:
A current or upcoming campaign you want to develop
Curiosity, openness, and a willingness to experiment. Come ready to think, feel, unlearn, and imagine.
Course Instructor
PRICE
Price
€750
€750
This fee is inclusive of 12-month access to the Rogue Campaigning community and self-paced course (normally priced at €249).
VOICES FROM
THE ROGUES
“Ishtar is radical, joyful, fun and very experienced. She has lived and breathed the approaches that she teaches, and her fierce and playful spirit is contagious. She has a gift for guiding people into their own creativity. Working with Ishtar is sure to leave you feeling bolder, empowered and inspired. Careful though: she’s likely to release your inner mischief maker, she’s definitely going to change the way you think about change and you certainly won’t get away without laughing.”
Lucas Paulson
Collaboration Lead at Spring Strategies
“Ishtar has an infectious spirit of creativity and a skillfully strategic mind. Working with her is like lighting a match in a room full of wet ideas, suddenly everything catches fire. Her blend of strategic mischief, deep care, and creative rebellion has a way of making impossible things feel inevitable. Somehow she made rebellion feel like an act of deep care. I walked away from every campaign or workshop feeling braver, bolder, and more in love with the work. Seeing examples of creative activism from around the world just solidified that this is the only way to campaign. Be ready to dream and see real impact!”
Ivana Merckel
Senior Atlantic Fellow at Atlantic Institute
“I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Ishtar for many years, through some of the most challenging, creative, and meaningful advocacy efforts of my career. Our collaboration has spanned high-level advocacy, campaign design, policy submissions, and public engagement, often under enormous pressure and in emotionally charged environments. And through all of it, Ishtar has been a steady force. She has a rare ability to move between legal, emotional, and political terrain, without dropping the thread. She brings people together, she helps clarify what matters, and has an incredible gift for making the complex feel human and urgent.”
Stacey-Leigh Manuel
Deputy Director, Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
“I’m deeply grateful to Ishtar for the incredible support and encouragement she offered the Kenya CSO coalition in developing our advocacy and campaigning skills. Her passion, creativity, and unwavering belief in our potential turned what could have been a daunting learning curve into an exciting, confidence-building journey. Personally, Ishtar didn’t just teach me, she made the process genuinely fun and inspiring, and I’ll always carry that experience with me. I look forward to more learning as comrades in the human rights space in Africa.”
Catherine Mbui
Civic Space Advocate at Article19 East Africa
"It has been 10 years of collaborating on issues that have been close to our collective hearts: sex worker rights, state capture, health xenophobia, GBV, US funding cuts to global health, and others and 10 years of inspiration and benefiting from her wisdom and energy. Working with Ishtar means focusing with laser sharpness on the issue at hand, while acknowledging the heaviness of it, but not letting these emotions immobilise one. She has taught me to creatively use sadness and anger, and to channel those into opportunities for dreaming, fantasy, lightness and subversion. To harness these to craft innovative advocacy strategies, and then to implement these by playing with exuberance and laughing with abandon while making fire under the bums of the status quo.”
Marlise Richter
Activist, Researcher & Tea Connoisseur
“While I was at the European Environmental Bureau in Brussels, we brought Ishtar in to lead an advocacy training for global policymakers campaigning against the EU’s export of banned pesticides. She brought both heart and expertise to that table. Ishtar’s facilitation was unforgettable. She has a rare way with people, combining boldness and courage with deep knowledge and a healthy dose of realism. Vivid, sharp, and grounded, she made a lasting impact. That coalition is still going strong today, thanks in no small part to her spark. Ishtar is an extraordinary facilitator and genuinely fun to work with: brilliant, bold, wildly creative, and deeply strategic. She combines knowledge and charm, insight and humor and sessions with her leave you energized, equipped, and ready to take on the world.”
Andreea-Corina Anca
Senior Communications Specialist at Energy Community
How to sign up
To secure a place for yourself or your team:
Fill out the registration form.
You will receive a confirmation of your attendance from us, along with your invoice and payment instructions.
You’ll have 10 days from the date you receive the invoice to complete the payment and secure your spot.
If you’re signing up as a team or through your organisation and you’d like the invoice issued in your organisation’s name, simply include those details in the registration form.
Deadline
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis. We will close registrations once all the spots are taken, so do sign up quickly.
Cancellation Policy
We get that life happens and we genuinely want to offer as much flexibility as possible. Because spots are limited and late cancellations affect the venue, the group, and the waitlist, our policy is:
Until 30 May 2026: 100% refund
1–10 June 2026: 50% refund
From 11 June 2026: no refunds
Exception: If we can fill your spot from the waitlist, you’ll receive a 100% refund, regardless of the date.
Rogue Campaigning
Venue Video: A Beautiful Mess.
Amsterdam
Strategy Studio
16 - 18 June 2026
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Max 25 participants
Today’s campaigning landscape is louder, faster, and more polarised than ever. Traditional campaigning tools are struggling to compete with cultural noise, disinformation, and shrinking public attention. To win in this moment, we need something different: creativity, clarity, cultural fluency, and campaigns designed to cut through.
This 3-Day Rogue Campaigning Studio is a practical, immersive experience for changemakers who want to upgrade how they design and deliver impact. Through the Rogue Campaigning method every participant will walk away with a tested creative campaign prototype they can immediately start refining with their teams.
What makes this different
This Strategy Studio is not your average training. It’s a 6-step method designed for the messy, political, under-resourced realities of social and environmental justice campaigning. It blends:
Strategic clarity with creative boldness
Science-backed tools with playful experimentation
Structure with space to imagine new ways of doing the work
WHO IS THIS FOR
This is for advocacy and campaign leads, organisers, movement builders and communicators designing change efforts, especially in tough political contexts, who want sharper strategy, stronger narratives, and renewed purpose.
Ideal for teams working in: campaigns and advocacy, mobilisation and public education, strategic communications, movement building, narrative change, and policy influence.
Format and Schedule
In-person
16 - 18 June 2026
Venue: “A Beautiful Mess” is more than a restaurant, more than a cozy place. It’s a safe space for people from all backgrounds to learn, connect, and build a community where everyone belongs. 14 minutes walk from Amsterdam Centraal Station.
Daily start time: 9am
Daily end time: 4:30pm.
What you’ll receive
A creative campaign strategy and prototype (your “Rogue Map”) tailored to your real-world issue
Hands-on tools for mapping power, crafting messages, and designing tactics
12 month membership to the Rogue Campaigning online course and community, where regular events help you practice and strengthen your new campaigning muscles with fellow Rogue Campaigners (normally priced at €249)
1 hour post-Studio call with instructor
A renewed sense of courage, joy, and possibility in their work
What we ask from you
To get the most out of this Studio, we invite participants to bring:
A current or upcoming campaign you want to develop
Curiosity, openness, and a willingness to experiment. Come ready to think, feel, unlearn, and imagine.
Course Instructor
PRICE
Price
€750
€750
This fee is inclusive of 12-month access to the Rogue Campaigning community and self-paced course (normally priced at €249).
VOICES FROM
THE ROGUES
“Ishtar is radical, joyful, fun and very experienced. She has lived and breathed the approaches that she teaches, and her fierce and playful spirit is contagious. She has a gift for guiding people into their own creativity. Working with Ishtar is sure to leave you feeling bolder, empowered and inspired. Careful though: she’s likely to release your inner mischief maker, she’s definitely going to change the way you think about change and you certainly won’t get away without laughing.”
Lucas Paulson
Collaboration Lead at Spring Strategies
“Ishtar has an infectious spirit of creativity and a skillfully strategic mind. Working with her is like lighting a match in a room full of wet ideas, suddenly everything catches fire. Her blend of strategic mischief, deep care, and creative rebellion has a way of making impossible things feel inevitable. Somehow she made rebellion feel like an act of deep care. I walked away from every campaign or workshop feeling braver, bolder, and more in love with the work. Seeing examples of creative activism from around the world just solidified that this is the only way to campaign. Be ready to dream and see real impact!”
Ivana Merckel
Senior Atlantic Fellow at Atlantic Institute
“I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Ishtar for many years, through some of the most challenging, creative, and meaningful advocacy efforts of my career. Our collaboration has spanned high-level advocacy, campaign design, policy submissions, and public engagement, often under enormous pressure and in emotionally charged environments. And through all of it, Ishtar has been a steady force. She has a rare ability to move between legal, emotional, and political terrain, without dropping the thread. She brings people together, she helps clarify what matters, and has an incredible gift for making the complex feel human and urgent.”
Stacey-Leigh Manuel
Deputy Director, Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
“I’m deeply grateful to Ishtar for the incredible support and encouragement she offered the Kenya CSO coalition in developing our advocacy and campaigning skills. Her passion, creativity, and unwavering belief in our potential turned what could have been a daunting learning curve into an exciting, confidence-building journey. Personally, Ishtar didn’t just teach me, she made the process genuinely fun and inspiring, and I’ll always carry that experience with me. I look forward to more learning as comrades in the human rights space in Africa.”
Catherine Mbui
Civic Space Advocate at Article19 East Africa
"It has been 10 years of collaborating on issues that have been close to our collective hearts: sex worker rights, state capture, health xenophobia, GBV, US funding cuts to global health, and others and 10 years of inspiration and benefiting from her wisdom and energy. Working with Ishtar means focusing with laser sharpness on the issue at hand, while acknowledging the heaviness of it, but not letting these emotions immobilise one. She has taught me to creatively use sadness and anger, and to channel those into opportunities for dreaming, fantasy, lightness and subversion. To harness these to craft innovative advocacy strategies, and then to implement these by playing with exuberance and laughing with abandon while making fire under the bums of the status quo.”
Marlise Richter
Activist, Researcher & Tea Connoisseur
“While I was at the European Environmental Bureau in Brussels, we brought Ishtar in to lead an advocacy training for global policymakers campaigning against the EU’s export of banned pesticides. She brought both heart and expertise to that table. Ishtar’s facilitation was unforgettable. She has a rare way with people, combining boldness and courage with deep knowledge and a healthy dose of realism. Vivid, sharp, and grounded, she made a lasting impact. That coalition is still going strong today, thanks in no small part to her spark. Ishtar is an extraordinary facilitator and genuinely fun to work with: brilliant, bold, wildly creative, and deeply strategic. She combines knowledge and charm, insight and humor and sessions with her leave you energized, equipped, and ready to take on the world.”
Andreea-Corina Anca
Senior Communications Specialist at Energy Community
How to sign up
To secure a place for yourself or your team:
Fill out the registration form.
You will receive a confirmation of your attendance from us, along with your invoice and payment instructions.
You’ll have 10 days from the date you receive the invoice to complete the payment and secure your spot.
This course is designed to fit into your real life—without sacrificing depth, creativity, or impact.
Deadline
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis. We will close registrations once all the spots are taken, so do sign up quickly.
Cancellation Policy
We get that life happens and we genuinely want to offer as much flexibility as possible. Because spots are limited and late cancellations affect the venue, the group, and the waitlist, our policy is:
Until 30 May 2026: 100% refund
1–10 June 2026: 50% refund
From 11 June 2026: no refunds
Exception: If we can fill your spot from the waitlist, you’ll receive a 100% refund, regardless of the date.
