International 4-day event: Women & Men in Dialogue

An Experiential Course for Trainers Dealing with Gender Issues

Berlin, Germany: 11 - 14 September 2007
Course language is English!
No course fee is required!

We would like to invite you to join this 4 day International course which has been developed in our Dialogue between the genders project by a team of experienced trainers from Spain, Germany, UK and Poland. The course is aimed at adult trainers, social, health and community workers as well as other managers or supervisors.

Course objectives

The Course objectives are to:

  • Improve the quality of your training in dealing with gender issues at work with your learners and service users;
  • Explore gender issues, specifically male and female identities and roles;
  • Support and empower you to follow and reflect on your own process;
  • Help you to find the most appropriate tools for you to make the genuine and sustainable changes that you want for yourself, as a professional and as a unique individual.

Methodology

The time will be mostly spent in experiential reflective learning, (sometimes in small subgroups) jointly facilitated by a team composed of a woman and a man. The first and fourth days are with women and men together. The second and third days are in homogeneous men's and women's groups which support deeper inquiry. We support participants by establishing a safe, non-judgemental learning community to explore gender related conflicts and to place them into broader contexts.

Participants are empowered to explore their own process for learning, developing awareness of other internal processes that block learning and communication.

We propose creative experiments and exercises for participants to:

  • explore male and female communication, conflicts, identities and roles;
  • develop sensitivity to their own deeper defence mechanisms and learning potential, through movement and body-work;
  • strengthen their personal, emotional and creative approaches to difficult or conflictive situations;
  • develop a personal "Action Plan" to help them address difficult gender issues in their work and personal lives. We work to ensure that this plan is meaningful, realistic and sustainable for each person.

Course dates

  • Berlin (Germany): 11 - 14 September 2007
  • Totnes (England): 2008
  • Lodz (Poland): 2008

More Information and Pre-registration

EU-Projekt Dialogue between the Genders
Dissens e.V. und genderWerk
Klaus Schwerma, Bettina Knothe
Allee der Kosmonauten 67
12687 Berlin
E-mail: <klaus.schwerma@genderwerk.de>
Telephone: +49 30 54987541

This course has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The activity and contents of the course is the sole responsibility of the Dialogue between the Genders partnership and can no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.