Active Solidarity and Empowerment

Aims & objectives

- Sharing tools and practices that aim into reducing discrimination based on race, gender, psychosexual orientation, economic status, disability, age, ethnicity or religion
- Reflect on stereotypes and prejudices that we carry
- Raise awareness on experience of oppression (both external and internalized) in our organisations and wider society
- Understanding privilege related to the social groups we identify ourselves with or that we are identified with in the eyes of others/society
- Get more knowledge on intersectionality of oppressions
- Find solutions for discrimination mechanism reproduced in our activist groups and movements

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

The target group consisted of european social and environmental justice activists, representatives of the organisations from the following countries:
- Czech Republic
- Poland
- Spain
- UK
- Germany
- France

The Ulex Team is international, and I co-facilitated with other trainers from USA and UK.

Training methods used & main activities

We used ONLY non-formal learning methods, providing dynamics and structures taken from:
• Anti-discrimination workshops
• Drama exercises
• Warm-up, trust building, name learning activities
• Discussion, sharing, exchange of experience, movement & reflection.

Outcomes of the activity

We have prepared 14 participants to come back to their home organisations with tools and solutions to be implemented in the form of anti-oppression practices.

This training gave participants the know-how of building more inclusive and empowering environments for activism and social change work.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Preparing the program and co-facilitating on site.

I worked on this training for 6 days as a full time trainer.

Testimonial of the reference person

Kinga brings in an enormous experience in the field of non-formal education and specifically anti-discrimination education. Kinga uses a range of different, participatory and creative methodologies and tools in her work. Some of the qualities are appreciate most in the way Kinga holds educational spaces are: empathy, ability to build strong container and trust between participant, intersectional perspective, responsiveness to feedback and learners needs.