Topics
What we work towards
Each workshop focuses on one topic of social relevance, starting from one's own person. These can be topics such as the relationship between solidarity and equality, different qualities of pain such as grief and anger, or patriarchal conditions and climate collapse. The work on topics is continuously developed further, shaped around the space and the participants, and can also be agreed on in advance. Longer events can take up several topics or work through more intensive processes. The topic workshops listed below are ones we have already run with groups.
Work that Reconnects
An introduction to the four stages of the spiral of Joanna Macy's “Work that Reconnects”.
To the topic →Shame & growth
Shame also stands for the longing for growth and authenticity, and is at the same time shaped by social norms.
To the topic →Fear & belonging
Fear also stands for the longing for connection and belonging. We approach this feeling together.
To the topic →Grief & love
Grief also stands for the longing for love and for connectedness — so what does grief mean, for example, within political action?
To the topic →Anger & boundaries
Constructive force and the setting of boundaries — when is anger an engine for change?
To the topic →Emptiness & transformation
Exhaustion, regeneration and a sustainable capacity to act in political engagement.
To the topic →Time, rest & presence
How do we, as engaged people, come to rest and regenerate? Which quality of time suits me?
To the topic →Power & responsibility
By engaging with power and its various dimensions, we reflect on our personal measure of responsibility.
To the topic →Community & hope
What does hope mean in times of polycrisis? And what role can community play in it?
To the topic →Natality & forgiveness
With Hannah Arendt: the capacity to begin anew as a political force.
To the topic →Thinking in longer timeframes
Which tradition do I place my actions in? What does it mean to think in circles rather than in straight lines?
To the topic →Listening & pain
Listening as a political dimension, and the expression of pain as a counter-model to positivity and pressure to perform.
To the topic →A topic for your event
All topics can be requested as a workshop for institutions, groups, festivals and events — from a short format to a full day.