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CHRISTCHURCH

17th to 21st August 2026

The ACTIV8 Pro-Life Training Week is open to anyone aged 18 years or older (with exceptions considered on a case-by-case basis).

It is five days, from Monday to Friday, of living in community and growing in knowledge and practical skills with other awesome people from all over the country (and sometimes overseas attendees as well).

Some of the topics that we cover at the ACTIV8 Pro-Life Training Week include:

  • Self-giving love and authentic activism

  • Ideological architects who have shaped our culture

  • Understanding the ethics of the modern secular mind

  • Why authentic community matters

  • The history and beliefs of the eugenics movement

  • Politics and pro-life ethics The pro-life case against abortion

  • The flaws in pro-abortion ideology

  • The history of pro-life ethics

  • The harms of legalised euthanasia

  • Abortion, euthanasia, and disability

  • Embryology and the biological truth of life in the womb

  • Understanding natural law

  • How to care for people in a crisis pregnancy

  • How to care for people with post-abortion grief

  • The essentials skills of effective leadership

  • Principles of change and the pro-life movement

  • Understanding media bias

  • Human fertility and contraception

  • Effective use of social media

  • How to have fruitful dialogue about contentious issues

Along with these, we also hear powerful testimonies from people engaged at the coalface on these issues, take time each day for silent personal reflection, gather in small groups to discuss what we are learning, watch and discuss films that artistically grapple with pro-life issues in profoundly deep and important ways, AND LOTS MORE!

Our Pro-Life Training Week offers something for everyone, regardless of prior knowledge or life experience.

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2026 TRAINING WEEK:

Starts: 11:30am on Mon 17th August
Ends: 2pm on Fri 21st August
Venue: Woodend Christian Camp, Canterbury

Registrations close on Monday 3rd August 2026

The registration fee will be publicised when registrations open. This covers all meals, accommodation and course materials during the event. If funding is an issue, your local pro-life organisation or church may be willing to help you fund the registration and/or travel costs.

Registrations open 2026
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How do I register and pay?

Go to the registration page, select the Pro-Life Training Week, then click the ‘Register Now’ button. Once you are on the event page, fill in your registration form details and make payment via credit card or online banking.

What happens once I register?

Once your registration and payment has been received, you will be sent a confirmation email to let you know that you have been registered. Closer to the start of the event you will be sent detailed information about what to bring, and other important information that all participants need to know.

What about travel to and from the event?

Attendees need to arrange their own transport to and from the ACTIV8 Pro-Life Training Week. If you are flying in to our events, we do our best to provide transport from (and back to) the airport.

IMPORTANT! If you are flying to the ACTIV8 Pro-Life Training Week, please make sure that you book a flight that lands NO LATER than 11:00am on the Monday morning, and a flight home which departs from the airport AFTER 3:00pm on the Friday!

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