Stichting Feminenza Nederland

Stichting Feminenza Nederland (SFN) is a public benefit foundation with a charitable (ANBI) & ECOSOC status, offering a wide range of workshops, retreats and projects, nationally and internationally.

Today more than 60 volunteers are located in the Netherlands, often part of international teams, design and develop most of the activities directly improving lives of many:

• Hosting regular gatherings, providing workshops, retreats and courses both directly for the public as well as for community based organisations
• Assisting:
o the disadvantaged
o refugees and newcomers
o the elderly
o lives locked in stress depression and anxiety
o those facing death or bereavement

Our work includes:
• Advancement of education for the public benefit, in particular by research and by providing educational tools and mentoring, in the fields of
o transformative leadership
o the prevention of armed conflict, ethnic and gender oppression
o fear management and forgiveness
o gender respect
• Promoting human rights (as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations) throughout the world by all or any of the following means:
o Relieving need among the victims of human rights abuse
o Promoting respect for human rights by individuals and corporations
o Promoting popular support for human rights
• Relief of mental, physical and emotional distress of persons suffering from sickness or trauma as a result of conflict, bereavement or loss, or for those acing their own death, by the provision of counselling and support.

In the by Erasmus+ funded ‘Trauma Healing and Community Resilience Development project (2021 – 2023) SFN volunteers contributed in the implementation in various ways: from project management, being a dedicated contact for a partner organization, development and (co-) facilitation of the online workshops and the 6-day workshop on location, being Zoom host and technical support in the online meetings and as a security officer during the online engagements.

Currently, in cooperation with the municipality of Oost Gelre (East of the Netherlands) and as part of their summer school program, we facilitate ‘living a resilient life’ workshops for newcomers, age 17-20.