Animal Advocacy Conference Asia (AACA) mini

is a virtual platform for animal justice advocates across Asia to learn new skills, exchange ideas, and grow the movement together.

We aim to make AACA to be a space to highlight efforts of local animal advocates and encourage solution-centric strategies to be developed through knowledge sharing and collaborations.

This year, we're back with a mini version. Instead of multi-day webinars, we're rolling out individual sessions where you can follow along and register for the topics that catch your attention!

Sentient Horizons: Just Futures for the Non-Human World

📅 26 June 2026

⏰ 19:00 (GMT+7)

📍 Zoom

The session is a quick introduction to futures thinking and foresight and its importance to animal rights activism. It will have a short keynote, a workshop using a foresight tool used for causal analysis and transformation, and an open plenary discussion where participants can engage Shiela and Peachie with their questions and insights.

Objectives

Introduce foresight and futures thinking, and why it is necessary for the animal liberation movement.
Practice a foresight tool that would show deeper levels of causality and transformation.
Appreciate the importance of foresight and futures thinking in animal rights activism

Suitable for animal advocates with all levels of experience.

About Speakers

Peachie Dioquino-Valera is a Filipina Climate Reality Leader of The Climate Reality Project—founded by Nobel Laureate and former US Vice-President Al Gore. She is also known as Peachie Keen & Green!, a social media platform of hers where she shares her environmental and social justice activism, citizen science, futurism, humanities, and conservation works.

Ms. Valera is a co-organizer of VegFest Pilipinas—the country’s longest running vegan festival; and also became the biggest one in Asia (since 2018).

Peachie is a Futures Thinking 101 Workshop Designer & Facilitator, and a Foresight practitioner.

Other hats she wears are: writer, poet, hosting, talent, and Spiritualism specialist. When she stays in the UAE, a quarter per year, she fulfills theater and short films contracts.

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Ms Shiela R Castillo (she/her/hers) is an independent consultant for social development and foresight with 20 years of experience in the Philippines, Cambodia, and globally. Shiela is currently engaged with United Edge, a justice-based social enterprise, as Foresight and Engagement Director. An instructor at the DAP-GSPM Certificate Course on Foresight and Future Thinking, she is also an active member of the ICSC Scanning the Horizon Community and member of the APF since 2020. She is in her second year as the AAA Philippines Advisor.

Shiela has been a vegan and animal rights activist since 2015. She is passionate about the environment, climate, and liberation for all. She has an eponymous blog and you can reach her through LinkedIn.

Past sessions

Click the the link below to watch our past AACA mini sessions!

About AACA

We welcome anyone who want to be a better advocate for animals! We ask all attendees—including AAA staff and speakers—to follow our Code of Conduct.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can. We try to keep our events as accessible as possible, so if you can’t pay for donations, that’s fine too!
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This year, we're back with a mini version. We're rolling out individual sessions where you can follow along and register for the topics that catch your attention! Please stay tuned for more info for each session.
We will be using English as a default language throughout the conference this year. Although we want to make our space as inclusive as possible, we are not able to cover the cost of translation service this year. If you would like to support our effort to make the conference more accessible and inclusive, please consider donating!