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Skills for grounded and rooted empowerment
A feeling of disempowerment, being deprived of our collective power and personal power often puts limitations on our actions and bringing the best of ourselves into the world. This course is a an opportunity to look for ways of empowerment that invites connection and respect for others, and in the same time enables us to stay engaged and rooted in our desires and aims as well as with our communities and groups.
The course will offer tools for empowering our voices and our presence, both physical and on psycho-emotional level.
The training will offer basic physical self-defence techniques and assertive communication tools, deriving from feminist methodologies. The self-defence techniques will focus on equipping the participants with quick, easy solutions for situations of boundaries crossing, which do not require physical agility. The course will also focus on the psycho-emotional element of self-defence and assertiveness, enabling the participants to be better prepared and empowered to claim their space and position. We will open up the space for exploration ofĀ boundaries – discovering, connecting to our needs, identifying obstacles to have and maintain boundaries, setting boundaries up and training the ability to let go of them when we want to and feel safe enough to do so. We will explore our conditioned responses to threats, perceived threats and identify where they come from and how they can be helpful or unhelpful.
We will look at the frameworks of anti-discrimination work, discuss concepts and explore its limitations, as well as look for ways to to work with allies in a way that is empowering for those experiencing discrimination and not resulting in shame and blame dynamics.
The course will offer:
– tools for empowerment
– physical self-defence methods
– assertive communication
– resilience and regeneration
– understanding anti-discrimination frameworks and its limitations
– political body awareness and identifying how our bodies are shaped by the systems of oppression.
Any levels of physical fitness are welcomed, though take into consideration that the centre is not fully accessible (although we are working on changing that).
The course is for women, non-binary and trans folks, to be able to explore shared experiences of certain kinds of discrimination and disempowerment.
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Sergio (all pronouns) was born in Romania and migrated to Germany in the early 2010s. In the past, he was a social worker with homeless people and a social consultant for Eastern European migrants for various organisations. Trained as a filmmaker, he spent two years making a documentary about the ācivic reawakeningā in Romania and the waves of protest it brought with it. In connection to this, Sergio is currently co-steering the development of an online open-source participative knowledge production platform on activism in Romania. Over the past nine years, Sergiu has offered his skills to various journalists, grassroots collectives and campaigns, mostly working within the labour rights, climate justice, international solidarity and anti-authoritarian movements in Germany and Romania. Nonetheless, his biggest focus since 2020 has been his work as an organiser with the anarcho-syndicalist Free Workers Union, where he focuses mostly on organising Romanian migrant workers on construction sites, in factories and in the agricultural field.
new stories: different worlds
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Knowledge, skills and perspectives to challenge oppression and create spaces of solidarity.
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Tools for effective and sustainable activism
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Navigating the complex terrain of migrant and migrant-solidarity organising
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an introduction to a holistic and transformative approach to activist training and facilitation
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Go to the people, learn from them. Live with them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have ā Lao Tzu
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Building facilitation capacity through participatory practices.
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a space to think critically, to ask challenging and transformative questions, and find deeper inspiration and understanding to empower social change.
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building and strengthening regenerative praxis for BIPOC organisers.
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Ulex: del LlatĆ, (argelaga en catalĆ ) nom:
1. Arbust espinós de fulla perenne i floració, amb gran capacitat de regeneració i resistĆØncia. Les seves pues s’obren en entrar en contacte amb el foc i torna a brollar dels tocones carbonitzats. Planta successional que creix bĆ© en condicions difĆcils. Millora la fertilitat del sòl mitjanƧant la fixació de nitrogen, preparant el terreny per a una renovada biodiversitat.
2. Una opció tradicional per a encendre focs. Crema amb intensitat i lluentor.
3. Un projecte en xarxa que aporta nutrició i fertilitat als moviments socials europeus a través de la formació