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Building on last year’s Facilitating Change workshop series, based on feedback from the participants, I’ve decide to run a space which is focused not only on knowledge-transfer, but also on mutual support. Between 2020-2025 I worked within aequa Workshops Collective, and experienced firsthand the power of regularly sharing knowledge, skills, learnings, and just having a place to ask “What is the most ethical course of action?” in a group of trusted peers. Now that this experience has ended, I thought it could be useful to bring the benefits of that arrangement into a programme in which many of the amazing facilitators I know (and maybe some I don’t-yet-know) can share the same.
This will be a space to practice economies of mutuality and interdependence, rather than scarcity and singularity. Starting in March, will meet once a month through December, with a break in August.
Online, with option for a couple in-person meetups for those in Berlin.
*We believe in caring for each other as a form of cultural rebellion. We believe in the need to foster a counterculture of care — a politics larger than any siloed issue, one that can challenge dehumanization and the erasure of atrocity while allowing us to hold on to each other and our humanity amid distasters daily and acute.
The goal of the the Countercultures of Care series is to assemble a small and committed cohort of facilitators, would-be facilitators and those who work in collective contexts — all of whom want to deepen and sharpen their facilitation knowledge and skills in service of collective liberation.
I’m a firm believer that one (of many) ways we can weave care into our collective spaces is through power-critical, trauma-responsive and deeply embodied facilitation practices.
Together, we will practice sharing vulnerably, daydreaming, trying things out, failing-with-an-audience, and caring fiercely for ourselves and each other — essential but oft-forgotten steps on the way to doing the damn thing. And rather than just solo-talking to a coach or reading our way through another self-help book or online course, we get to talk to other people along the way.
By having this process happen in and through a facilitated, conversation- and creativity-based space, participants not only get the benefit of verbal processing and naming things out loud, but also have conversation partners who are facing related challenges, get real-time feedback and support for their ideas and challenges, get inspired to dream a bit bigger or wilder or weirder, and even find co-conspirators for activating the things they are dreaming of and longing for.
While I have an outline of the themes I think we might cover over these months (see below), I also want to let the programme emerge from the needs of the participants – to sprout from what is present in our collective body, from the challenges we are facing in our contexts. So, as will all the best (in my opinion) facilitation — we’ll go in with a strong plan, and look forward to adapting it as we go.
Though this ten-month programme, we create a temporary community of care, practicing what interdependence can look like when we are moving towards what we are longing for — personally and collectively.
Together, we aim to disrupt the overculture of domination and violence by building countercultures of care that start with those in our proximities.
Using participatory methods, we will explore some of these questions together: