Ana Rodrigues Afonso

Educational pathway

From January 2022:
––> Masters Degree on Gender Based Violence and Domestic Violence
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia – UNED (Spain)
https://www.uned.es/universidad/inicio/institucional.html

• Subjects on gender-based violence and domestic violence: language and oppression, legislation, recovery of victims.

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January - December 2021:
––> Mindfulness Training
Positive Psychology (The Netherlands)
https://positivepsychology.com/

• Subjects on mindfulness from a positive psychology perspective: meaning and value of mindfulness, managing emotions, thoughts and judgement as a source of discomfort, how to manage the flow of thoughts, acceptance, how to do guided meditations, meditations and other mindfulness methods.

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Adventure therapy training⎢Asociación Experiencia⎢ 3 day workshop facilitated by Martin Ringer y Luk Peeters⎢5-7 Feb 2017, Valencia, Spain --> This training will contribute to my personal development and to improve my competencies to work with groups in change/transformational programmes

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October 2016 - January 2017:
––> Specialised training course on gender equality
CIEG-ISCSP Lisbon University (Portugal)
www.iscsp.ulisboa.pt/pt

• Theoretical knowledge on gender equality and women’s rights related subjects: construction of difference, gender based violence and domestic violence, Portuguese and international legislation and human’s rights standards, history of the feminist movement, public policies and equality plans.
• Practical skills on developing equality action plans.

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September 2015:
Training for trainers (Portuguese official accreditation) B-Training Consulting (Portugal)
www.b-training.pt

• Theoretical and practical training on adult education: communication, motivation, group dynamics, conflicts, presentation of theoretical contents, creation of a training plan, evaluation, among others.

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September 2014 - May 2015:
––> Master on outdoor experiential learning
International Academy for Experiential Education (Lithuania, Belgium, Italy)
www.viaexperientia.net/

• Experiential training aimed at personal and professional development in the framework of outdoor experiential education.
• Skills in the design and implementation of outdoor activities.

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February - June 2010:
––> Training of trainers for human rights education with young people
Directorate of Youth and Sports of the Council of Europe, European Youth Centre Budapest
www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-education-youth/tothre-2017

• Human rights education related themes: human rights, human rights education, group facilitation.
Competences on human rights education based educational programmes.

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October 1998-September 2003:
––> Bachelor Degree in Psychology
University of Lisbon (Portugal)
www.psicologia.ulisboa.pt/

• Theoretical and practical subjects related to general psychology and systemic psychology.
• Nine month internship at the Family Support Center of the ‘Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa’ where I developed and implemented prevention programmes with youth and families.
• Ability to design educational and prevention programmes.
• Ability to conduct individual psychological assessments and counseling.