Openings and Closings
20 Min
This activity can be used in multiple ways as an initial exercise for introductions or as a game to start off an evening of informal conversation.
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Our Personal Approach to Conflict: Analysis and Reflection
1 Hr 30Min
Understanding and naming factors that influence how we see and deal with conflicts helps us more effectively respond to them. It develops both our personal power and capacity as individuals and as a group.
Patriarcado: Casos y Análisis de la vida cotidiana
1 Hr
Visibilizar las dinámicas del patriarcado es imprescindible para el fortalecimiento de activistas y lideresas generosas, cálidas y empoderadas. Los estudios de caso nos permiten analizar cómo la red del patriarcado impacta en la vida de las personas.
Patriarchy: Cases and analysis from everyday life
Unpacking the dynamics of patriarchy is key to developing powerful, collaborative, loving and generous activists and leaders. A series of case studies provide one way of analyzing how the web of patriarchy plays out in people’s lives.
Patrones de Poder
1.5-2 Hrs
Esta actividad consiste en que un grupo represente, a través de sociodramas, una serie de dinámicas de poder comunes en distintos aspectos de la vida para “verlas” y explorar qué cambios generarían dinámicas de poder justas y equitativas.
Patterns of Power
90 Min-2Hr
This activity engages a group in acting out familiar power dynamics in different aspects of life to better “see” them and to explore what changes would make them equitable and just.
Poder e Indefensión
Esta actividad está diseñada para iniciar una discusión sobre el poder, a través de explorar las experiencias de las personas en torno al poder y la indefensión. Sirve como introducción al “poder sobre” o poder opresivo, y a las fuentes de nuestro propio poder para transformar nuestras vidas y hacer un cambio.
Power Analysis for Strategy
This activity builds on the power analysis introduced in Understanding Power Over to enable a group to apply the power framework to specific organizing issues in their context both to understand the dynamics of power over they are up against and think through strategies for change.
Power and Powerlessness
This activity is designed to begin a discussion of power by exploring people’s experiences of power and powerlessness. It serves as an introduction to “power over”, or oppressive power, and the sources of our own power to transform our lives and make change.
Power Flower: Our Intersecting Identities
1 Hr 45Min
Every one of us has multiple, nuanced identities that help form our lives. Just as our own identities are complex so too are those of the women we work with. Gender, race, ethnicity, age, education, among others intersect and interact to shape who we are and what challenges and contradictions we confront. As an introduction to a broader analysis of power, the Power Flower promotes a fuller understanding of intersectionality that helps us become more integrated and sensitive human beings and more effective leaders and activists.
Problem Identification and Prioritization
2-3 Hr
This activity helps a group review problems in the community, and then using a set of criteria it has defined, determine which present the best avenues for action.
Problem Tree Analysis: Problems, Causes and Consequences
1-2 Hr
This exercise is used to analyze the root causes of a problem and to identify the primary consequences. The tree provides a visual structure for the analysis.
Relajación y Meditación para el Corazón, la Mente y el Cuerpo
5-20 Min
En nuestro trabajo, a menudo lidiamos con el estrés, la dificultad y el miedo, los cuales impactan sobre nuestros cuerpos, mentes y espíritus. Esta actividad nos ayuda a relajarnos, concentrarnos y encontrar la calma de una manera sencilla.
Respirar para obtener Bienestar y Tranquilidad
5min-1Hr
La salud del cuerpo, mente y corazón se ve afectada continuamente por factores como trauma, violencia, estrés, miedo, dieta, ambiente, noticias diarias y otros retos que se nos presentan en la vida. Los siguientes ejercicios se pueden realizar cuando sentimos estrés, angustia, agobio o dispersión. Estas herramientas son para todas nosotras, seamos sobrevivientes de un trauma, activistas enfrentándonos a la injusticia y opresión, cuidadoras trabajando con otros y otras o personas agobiadas y estresadas por el día a día.
Sosteniéndonos - Herramientas para la Relajación y el Bienestar
50 min
Esta práctica consiste en realizar diversos ejercicios energéticos sencillos que pueden hacerse en una misma o en otra persona en casos de ansiedad, dolor físico o emocional, cuando hay emociones fuertes como el enojo y el miedo, en caso de insomnio y para una profunda relajación. A través de la energía de nuestras manos tenemos el poder de traer armonía y sanación al cuerpo, la mente y el corazón. Este ejercicio es útil para presentar al corazón-mente-cuerpo como una parte crítica de la construcción y fortalecimiento de movimientos, dedicando un espacio para este tipo de prácticas en cada día del taller, pero también es útil para responder a cualquier tipo de emociones profundas e influencias externa que están afectando la dinámica del espacio.
Sources of Strength
45 Min
This activity is a good for helping create safe space and affirming individual and collective strength.
Sources of Transforming Power
50-60 Min
This activity explores participants’ sources of personal and shared sources of power and introduces a JASS framework of inclusive and transformative forms of power (power to, within, with and for) as distinct from power over.
Spider Web
Examining the story of a woman who is caught in a web of interconnected forces and power dynamics that keep her oppressed, helps participants name the ways that different forms of power affect their lives and community participation. This realization provides a basis for developing strategies that get at root causes and promote both solidarity and a readiness to act in the face of these dynamics.
Storytelling Circle
N/A
This activity uses storytelling as a process of empowerment in which participants’ voices and experiences are affirmed and we build community and solidarity. It is also an introduction to listening and documenting skills.
Sustaining Self-Care
This activity helps activists explore and deepen their understanding of self-care, inviting them to reflect about their sustainability and resilience given the many challenges and risks of activism.