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Training Course
21-29 April 2023 | town of Radomir, Bulgaria
Conflict transformation in non-formal education, community organizing and advocacy often runs against deeply entrenched divisions, stereotypes and unidimensional worldviews which prevent genuine connection and exchange of ideas and experiences, as well as their modification.
Unequipped with awareness and skills to recognize our own needs and wants, as well as communicate our lived experience honestly and effectively, we instead suppress ourselves and rely on manipulation, lies and moralizing to get others to do what we want. On both individual and political level, these tactics escalate violence and alienation instead of preventing conflict.
Knowledge about and awareness of social issues alone are not sufficient to mobilize support across political and ideological divides and lead to sustainable collective action. When we do not attend to the emotional pains underlying any given perspective, we lose the opportunity to transform suffering into constructive learning, authentic empathy and empowered agency.
In order to support our communities to transform conflict and find sustainable solutions to the problems they face, as social workers and community leaders we need to build our skills to facilitate individual and collective healing, and expand our capacity to connect, collaborate and sustain togetherness.
What is Radical Honesty?
Radical Honesty is an awareness practice and a body-based approach. It is about communicating directly by reporting out loud what you notice in front of you, in your body, and in your mind in the present moment. Through practicing Radical Honesty we learn to access all of our emotions, and experience them fully in order to reclaim our energy and aliveness and prevent getting stuck in conflict, whether internal or external.
Radical Honesty is not brutal, extreme, or non-stop honesty. We practice Radical Honesty to better connect with others, discover intimacy that doesn’t require manipulation, emotional suppression, lying or hiding, and as a way to find creative solutions to conflicts and problems, and have fun!
Program Goals
We invite you to join us in exploring and growing our power to turn conflict into connection through the courageous acts of vulnerable sharing and allowing ourselves to fully experience whatever is. We practice Radical Honesty with commitment to stay in contact, and maintain respectful acceptance of different experiences and realities.
In this intensive experiential program, we will practice Radical Honesty in order to:
Expected learning outcomes:
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This Training Course is
for 16 participants
from Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Western Balkan countries
and recommended for
Youth workers, Youth leaders, Youth policy makers, activists
Accessibility info:
This activity and venue place are accessible to people with disabilities.
Working language(s):
English
Foundation "SolidarityWorks" (Youth NGO)
Contact for questions:
Maggie Nazer
E-Mail:
Phone: +359889925804
We are offering a uniquely accessible opportunity to spend 7 full days in an experiential Radical Honesty environment and receive training and coaching by two experienced and licensed Radical Honesty trainers. Still, as our funding is not adjusted to the inflation and price surges in the last year, we request all participants to contribute to the project budget as follows:
Individuals with monthly income under 1000 euro - 50 euro
Individuals with monthly income above 1000 euro - 100 euro.
covered by the Erasmus+ program
up to 180 or 275 euro depending on the country of residence (see infopack)