Wednesday June 5th 2013, Safer Place Organisers Meeting, 8pm
The plan is to organize a workshop in Joe’s about Safer Spaces. We would like to invite you to get involved in organizing it, preparing it, and thinking about it. So your ideas can be represented when the (first) workshop takes place on the 9th of July. We envision the workshop to a be a skills sharing workshop, where people can share communication skills and conflict management skills. It will also give the collective a chance to start defining what it is a safe place is. There seems to be a general consensus in Joes that we want a space where people can address power imbalance , personal boundaries, class, sexism, racism, abuse, homophobia, historical exploitation such as colonization and it’s legacy, and misunderstanding when that arises in a safe way. Part of that is establishing safe boundaries and a space for discourse and action by setting guidelines and establishing some consensus on acceptable preventative action and intervention. […Lees verder]
