Resilience in Times of Collapse

This training invites youth workers to engage with the world as it is now and the uncertainty of its future and to be inspired to reimagine personal life and work with youth within that context.

Overview

We believe societal transformation and supporting youth relies not only on more efficient mobilization and strategy but on qualitative shifts and leaps of consciousness within ourselves and among each other. Turning ourselves into laboratories of transformation, we will experiment with inner shifts as seeds of new possibilities for the larger contexts we’re part of.

“I am quite confident that even as the oceans boil, and the hurricanes beat violently against our once safe shores, and the air sweats with the heat of impending doom, and our fists protest the denial of climate justice, that there is a path to take that has nothing to do with victory or defeat: a place we do not yet know the coordinates to; a question we do not yet know how to ask.

May this decade bring more than just solutions, more than just a future – may it bring words we don’t know yet, and temporalities we have not yet inhabited… And may we be visited so thoroughly, and met in wild places so overwhelmingly, that we are left undone. Ready for composting. Ready for the impossible.”
–– Bayo Akomolafe

We believe that we are all called to face, sense and hospice the ongoing derangement and collapse of ecological, economic and social systems. With this training, we wish to create a safe space for people who work with youth to come together in community, hold each other in care in both our joy and brokenness, exchange experiences and work together on core questions like:

• What are our current edges on personal and collective levels in our work with youth?
• How can we support each other as we encounter these limitations?
• How could we respond to crises and collapse in ways that increase empathy, connection and vitality, rather than fear, control and powerlessness?
• How are we perpetuating the very dynamics we seek to interrupt?
• How can the way we live be more coherent with the world we want to create, and what are concrete steps towards a post-capitalist society?

Who is the course for?

This course is for youth leaders and apprentices, community builders engaging with youth and young adults, educators, guides who care for future generations, activists, artists, organizers collaborating with youth, and parents involved in youth work.
We are working in collaboration with ERASMUS+. The participants have been selected through communities and organizations affiliated with ERASMUS+. We’ve also been fundraising for youth workers from Tamera’s partner communities in Brazil and Palestine. We are still hopeful to reach the fundraising goals. Please support these young people to join us by donating to our crowdfunder.

We’re sorry, but the course is currently (almost) full. We only have a few seats left for residents from Portugal and accept only those applications.

What you’ll learn

• Practices to nourish and sustain you, and learn how to regulate yourself in situations of stress and trauma response.
• The inner transformations and shifts of consciousness necessary to help us catalyze political transformation in our struggles and societies at large.
• Building inner capacity in community to look at societal and ecological collapse.
• How our intimate questions around love, sexuality, spirituality, power and meaning are
  linked with our engagement with the world and our youth work.
• How to strengthen your imagination of post-domination futures and explore how they
  could practically come about.
• Listening to guidance from Earth, entering into deep time, and letting go of
  human-centrality.

Course content

• Experiences of transparency and intimacy in the group through council and Forum.
• Theater exercises and games.
• Seminars (with presentations and Q&A sessions) on re-Indigenizing, systems of oppression, system change, relating in love & sexuality.
• Practices and tools on trauma awareness, somatic self- and co-regulation, and bodywork.
• Work in small groups.
• Ceremonial spaces for expressing grief and gratitude.
• Time in nature.
• Practices to connect with ancestors, future generations and more-than-human beings (Work that Reconnects).

Projeto 2023-3-PT02-KA153-YOU-000181651
ACTIVE HOPE IN A WORLD OF COLLAPSE: EMBRACING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES