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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 of 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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Jeroen (he/him pronouns) has been involved in grassroots social movements for more than two decades now, starting back when he was fifteen. Throughout the years the fights for “climate justice” and “migrant justice” have been consistently on top of the list of struggles that make his heart beat faster. A key transformative moment for Jeroen was reading Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire’s revolutionary pedagogy gave him a language to support the creation of emancipatory learning environments, rooted in a desire for collective liberation. Jeroen has also been exploring in depth Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and Joanna Macy’s The Work That Reconnects among other methodologies to build his trainer’s toolkit. Inspired by the liberatory possibilities of these traditions, he started an organization with a friend, LABO vzw, based in Belgium, where he has worked as a trainer and campaigner between 2013 and 2023.
Tools for effective and sustainable activism
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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 – 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 latín, (tojo en castellano, argelaga en catalán) nombre.
1. Arbusto espinoso de hoja perenne y floración, con gran capacidad de regeneración y resistencia. Sus púas se abren al entrar en contacto con el fuego y vuelve a brotar de los tocones carbonizados. Planta sucesional que crece bien en condiciones difíciles. Mejora la fertilidad del suelo mediante la fijación de nitrógeno, preparando el terreno para una renovada biodiversidad.
2. Una opción tradicional para encender fuegos. Arde con intensidad y brillo.
3. Un proyecto en red que aporta nutrición y fertilidad a los movimientos sociales europeos a través de la formación
