Agenda: Ante los ataques digitales… Vamos a desarrollar respuestas creativas.

A través de una dinámica participativa presentaremos cinco o seis casos concretos de cómo se presentan algunos ataques digitales, cómo van escalando y de qué manera podemos hacer frente a ellos de una forma creativa en la que podamos sentirnos fuertes en estos momentos en que no sabemos cómo actuar y las vulnerabilidades se potencializan.

Ejemplo de una respuesta creativa. Contra los ataques: me disfracé de machitroll

Idioma: Castellano

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Agenda: ¿Cómo construimos y fortalecemos hacklabs feministas?

A través de una charla compartiremos la experiencia del Hacklab feminista La Chinampa que se ubica en la periferia de Tláhuac en Cídad de México
Nos gustaría que en esta conversación pudiéramos convocar a más personas y colectivxs que estén creando espacios físicos en otras latitudes y compartir sobre los procesos de construcción de proyectos comunes, así como sus visiones con respecto a la ética hacker, el uso del software y hardware libre como herramientas útiles para el desarrollo de la autonomía tecnológica.

Idioma: Castellano


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Puedes escuchar el audio de la conversación aquí

Agenda: Hacer justicia: poder/corresponsabilidad, transformación y acompañamiento psicosocial

En este laboratorio de dos sesiones buscamos abordar algunos de los aprendizajes que hemos encontrado en torno a procesos de denuncia al interior de organizaciones y espacios de resistencia política; para compartir herramientas que nos permitan identificar las dinámicas de poder y cuestionarnos en torno a los procesos de corresponsabilidad para atender, desescalar y reconocer conflictos: pensando en procesos que reparen el daño y a la vez garanticen la no repetición de las condiciones o acciones que lo provocaron, sin depender de mecanismos punitivos ni la intervención del Estado.

Por otro lado, retomando algunas estrategias de acompañamiento psicosocial y primeros auxilios psicológicos, compartiremos algunas propuestas en torno a ejercicios que pueden apoyarnos para desarrollar habilidades de escucha activa que nos permitan entender las necesidades y circunstancias de las personas con quienes construimos nuestras redes de apoyo y activismo; con la esperanza de que estas propuestas nos ayuden a desarrollar las habilidades específicas que requieran los contextos o entornos donde participamos y resistimos.

Idioma: Castellano

Agenda: Als nostres conflictes! / CONFLICT.OS I&II (Owning Conflict.os & Bring your own conflicts)

This workshop is inspired by restorative practices and collective reapropriation of our conflicts.

I will take place in two parts, ideally of 2/3 hours each:
– the first part is an intro to restorative systems, ie to the way we take care of conflicts in our communities.
– the second is an intro to restorative circles, a collective approach to conflict care, with the help of either existing conflict or by using a tale we really don’t like and use it as a base for a simulated restorative circle.
Ideally, the participants of the 2nd workshop would have taken part of the 1st one and the circle would be 12 participants maximum.

Language: English

 

Notes

This workshop took place in many iterations, and was the occasion of several iterations of questions about how to reown our conflicts*, and move away from punitive, shaming and binary habits and choose collective ways to respond to harm.

Here are the notes of two of the workshops. 2 other informal workshops took place, with no notes taken.

 

I. OWNING OUR CONFLICTS (CONFLICT.OS PART I, Artemisia)

We took a large understanding of conflict, that almost always incompass, structural violence and look at the mutual and lateral harm resulting of the culture with been brought in. At the same time, this approach, developped in the favelas of Brazil, recognize that we also already have wisdom around how to react to conflict and harm, and that it can empower us at the condition that we choose it collectively.

1.1. Seeing ourselves in community
We were about 5 participants= living in different parts of the worlds (Brazil, Germany, Austria, Canada, France) and started with a round of discussion around the place of conflicts in our communities by discussing those propositions : Communities are not primarily made up of those with whom I identify but of those with whom I share resources (material and emotional), with whom I share risks and with whom I persist.

Conflict is feedback within any system (organism, relationships, organization, society…) that seeks to preserve its form and which inform us that something has changed or needs to change

I am in community with those with whom I am in conflict

Conflict increases its volume to compensate for the perceived distance between those who are part of the conflict.

Security increases when we walk toward conflict.

Among the things that came up were the importance of recognize our capacities, and prepare for learning from what’s happening, and grieving to, for what is too big for us.

We talked of the tyranny of structurelessness and how lac of chosen (infra)structures or methodologies can foster conflicts, but also, how it applies to conflicts and structural harm, ie when we have not collectively chosen how to reply to harm,t there is more chance to create more harm.

A participant remember In sociocraty,  we try to make feedback not personal anymore.

After that discussion, we answered three fonfamental questions:

 

1.2. Nurturing the restorative flame in our communities
Our relationships include an organized response to conflicts, a justice system, inherited if not consciously chosen.

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Legend

We made a little Legend to respond to those questions

∆ personal propositions

o collective or structural propositions

 

1.2.1 What do we currently do when conflicts become painful that works well ?

∆ When someone is hurting, respect personal time to rest and heal.

o In case of interpersonal conflicts, involve someone else who loves them both

o Get exercise / stay in bed, don’t drink/enjoy drinking

∆ Give people space/ give people a loving push when they need it

∆ Make feedback collective, not personal

∆ Share responsibilities for expressing needs/for giving support

∆-o If you can’t solve, try to dissolve

 

1.2.2. What do we currently do that doesn’t work so well?
Assigning blame

Judging who is right and who is wrong

Hiding from conflicts for ever

Letting inner and interpersonal conflicts growing and freezing/paralyzing us

Meetings for mutual feedback are taking a lot of times and we tends to postpone them sure to workload

Let 2 people solve themselves a pb (if in a group) without acknowledging as a group

using spread-sheets email, tech in general to try to solve conflicts

do nothing

putting one person in charge of dealing with all the conflicts

 

1.2.3. How do we dream it could be?
Have more free time to deal with conflicts for ex: money or regular income

Allowing ourselves the freedom to make mistakes

Having people open to learn/making learning desirable

A support network for things we can’t deal with alone (addiction, sexual abuse, structural violence… )

Emotional support network

Know how/Remember asking for help

Accessibility to therapy for personal & collective ways of healing

 

II. BRING YOUR OWN CONCLICTS (Conflict.os part 2 (Camping))

This second part was intending at practicing a restorative circle with an existing conflict, that affected one of us but not happening at THF.

In this 2 part, we were about 5-6 people again, all different from the 1st part of the workshop.  exept one participants and we did a summary of the 1st part of the workshop. We discussed in dept what happen in (not always so) BiPOC queer feminist trans communities

While looking at the 5 propositions, some reflexions came up such as:

If our response to conflict is exclusion, then that is violent again. Call out and cancel culture is often harming us.

If we talk of “toxic people”, we are already putting a label on someone and that is a preparation for exclusion. this is not going to help transformation

some prefer to talk of “toxic behavior”, so we focus less on the person but on what is toxic in particular.

It was also suggested that instead of naming a behavior toxic, says what s exactly harmful and how it is affecting.

After discussing the 5 propositions to look at ourselves in communities, we choose a conflict to practice together a semi simulated circle.

 

2.1. Semi-simulated circles
Semi-simulated circles are an opportunity to practice facilitation. They can also be valuable learning for all participants in the circle.

– It s good to work with groups of 4 or more with a conflict that is alive and active for one of the community members. It s recommanded to focus on the practice of facilitation rather than accompanying someone in a short conflict is made easier by not taking a conflict that involves someone else in space.

– The facilitator will make a circle with the participant for whom the conflict is alive. In the pre-circle, they identify a simple act, which fits into a sentence. It may be useful to identify an act for which the participant is the author or recipient.
Fictitious names may be used, for which it has been clearly identified who is the author, the recipient and the members of the community.

– In the circle, the participants do not engage in bad faith, nor in an imitation or an exaggeration. They come as they are, and as if they had participated in a particular act. Focus on the facilitation practice, staying in the flow of the circle rather than looking at how the participants are real or not.

– Use the process of mutual understanding, self-responsibility and agreed action. When we arrive at the agreed actions, remember that no action plan would really be carried by the participants.

Restorative questions : These questions are intended as a guide for you when you begin to offer facilitation pf restorative circles. It is recommended to use the questions as described below for at least your first 20 restorative circles, until their logic in this context is clear to you in the context, and be freely and precisely adapted for the people and situation at hands

 

2.2 Pre-circles

2.2.1. Identify the act :
Intention: To find a simple, clear and consensual key act.
To the first participant (initiator of the circle)
“What has been said or done that you would like to bring to a restorative circle?”
possible colloquial adaptation: How are you? What happened? Why are we here?
To the other participants:
“What has been said or done that leads you to be invited to this restorative circle?”

2.2.2 Understand the meaning:
Intention: To emphatically connect to the person’s current experience of the act, in their own words, in their own language. Seek to be touched and transformed by what you hear rather than to understand it cognitively.
While there is no particular way to do this, a guiding form could include questions that relate to:
– the meaning of the act
– the needs or underlying values ​​stimulated in the participant by the act in question
– the feelings, thoughts and images that comes from it.
You can also try to understand by rephrasing or trying to translate emphatically:

« Do you feel … (words or images describing feelings) … because ___ is really important, because you need __» (words or expressions describing needs or values)?

2.2.3. Share the process and agree on a supportive context
Present the proposed process – basic steps, dialogue and key principles
– Pre-circles
– Hear the meaning of what happened, for everyone.
– Inform about the process
– Know who should be there
– Confirm understanding and consent
– Circles:
– Dialogical process (reformulation of each intervention by a chosen/an other participant, for mutual understanding and so everyone feel heard and understood)
– 3 steps: (present-rehumanization / past-responsabilization / future-agreed actions)
– Post-circle: to check the agreed actions

Seek support of other affected members
Who: « Who needs to be there?»
Where: Look for a quiet and meaningful place + check if special needs.

2.2.4. Confirm understanding and consent
« Do you have any questions ? » « Are you willing to go ahead ? »

 

2.3. Facilitator’s pre-circle

(Note: These questions can be asked as is by anyone – a friend, an acquaintance, or by the co-facilitator to the facilitator. They help prepare, observe what may be more fragile, find support and make sure the facilitator feels prepared and ready to go ahead.)
2.3.1. Identify concerns/ideas
“What idea or ideas do you have of yourself, the process or the other participants that diminishes your ability to focus on the humanity of everyone involved?”

2.3.2. Understanding the meaning
Connect with the underlying needs or the values ​​stimulated by the facilitator in relation to his ideas, feelings, thoughts and images. Verbally verify your understanding in case of doubt or at the request of the facilitator. Seek less to “hear with precision” than to be touched and transformed by what is shared.

2.3.3 Confirm willingness to participate
“When you look at the steps you are going to take, is there something that comes
for which you think you need support? ”

“Do you know what you want to do to organize this support?”

“Do you want to go ahead?” (Achieve understanding and consensus.)

 

2.4 Dialogue process used in the circle
2.4.1 – Mutual understanding (- present)
The facilitator asks person A
« What would you like known and by whom, about how you feel now, related to the act / what happened and its consequences? »
Person A speaks to Person B and responds (in natural language)
The facilitator asks person B:
« What did you hear? »Or « What is the essence of what you heard? »
Person A speaks to Person B and responds

(note: if Person A speaks to everyone, someone rephrases it so that A feels understood)
The facilitator asks person A: « Is that it? » Then « Is there more? »
Repeat the same sequence with another person in the circle.

2.4.2. Personal responsibility (- past)

The facilitator asks Person A, “What would you like known and by whom about what you wanted to do when you did / said what you did / said?”
Person A speaks to Person B and responds
The facilitator asks person B: “What did you hear?” Or “What is the essence of what you heard? ”
Person A speaks to Person B and responds
The facilitator asks Person A, « Is that it? » Then « Is there more? »
Repeat with another person

Note: The discussion sometimes navigates organically from the present to the past … Follow the dynamics of what is said. When you feel a mutual and collective understanding of the complexity of the present and the past, (something in the hearts has melted) it is time to move towards the future.

2.4.3. Agreed action (- future)
“What would you like to see happen next?”
“What would you like to offer?” “What would you like to request?”

Note: Take notes of specific actions (invite clarity and precision). Send them to the group.

 

2.5.Post-Circle
Investigate participants’ well-being

– “What would you like to know and by whom, how would you compare to the action plans and their consequences?”
Participate in :
– Celebration (when the needs have been met mutually), or
– Resignify (when the actions completed do not meet the needs), and / or
– Understanding, planning (when needs have not been met

 

Agenda: bunker feminista ¿qué necesita una mujer o disidencia para salir realmente de la violencia de género?

Nuestra experiencia en torno a la violencia de género se transforma cada año, la reconocemos como el arma principal de la estructura patriarcal que tiene el planeta al borde del colapso y estamos permanentemente sacando adelante nuevas estrategias, manuales, glosarios y guías para dar esta pelea, pues es una estructura compleja y llena de trampas. Reconocer y sanar las huellas que deja la violencia de género en nosotres mismes, implica procesos personales de transformación profunda, redes de solidaridad y ternura, reconstruir nuestra vulnerabilidad, redefinir nuestra soledad, reconciliarnos con nuestra idea de la responsabilidad y la construcción de límites, entre otras posibilidades para así sostener espacios de cuidado concretos y sostenibles en dimensiones físicas, sicológicas y espirituales.

¿Cuáles han sido nuestros aprendizajes desde nuestros activismos estos años de pandemia y revuelta social? ¿Qué herramientas hemos desarrollado y cómo queremos contarlas? ¿Podemos proyectar estos espacios seguros desde las futurotopías feministas? ¿Qué necesitamos soltar para sanar realmente? Desde acoso.online las invitamos a abrir y documentar estos esfuerzos, jugar con las posibilidades y sostener la alegría de la transformación desde lo personal y colectivo, porque sabemos lo vivas que nos sentimos una vez que logramos reconstruirnos dejando atrás estas violencias y queremos que toda mujer y disidencia que lo requiera pueda acceder y construir estos espacios cualquiera sea el territorio en el que habite.

Idioma taller: Castellano

Notas:

¿Qué pasó a las cuerpas activistas con vidas no normadas? En acoso.online se tuvo un proyecto para quemarlo todo. En la pandemia se quemó todo.

Redes de apoyo: “lo que una mujer necesita para escribir es dinero y un cuarto propio” Virginia Wolf. Es importante también tener un cuarto para llorar y cargar energías. Pensar la arquitectura desde una dimensión imposible para la necesidades no pensadas.

Cuando se piensa desde los problemas que se tienen en el momento es difícil visualizar todo lo que está bajo el agua.

Nos preguntamos: ¿Qué me molesta de la violencia de género? Solo vemos la punta del iceberg pero con el derretimiento de los glaciares estos problemas también están saliendo a flote.

iceberg

problematic situation

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Sobre la situación problemática

¿Porqué tenemos que priorizar siempre la superviencia antes que vivir? Resulta fundamental construir las redes de apoyo que estamos construyendo.

 

 

– pausa para respirar-

 

 

Para construir esas redes y esos espacios de pausa para repirar nos preguntamos:

  • ¿qué lugar sensación, olor, lugar, recuerdo, sonido, me evoca un lugar seguro?
  • ¿qué preguntas necesito hacer para contruirme un bunker? Una pregunta para hacerte una pregunta. Es posible que en ciertas condiciones los espacios seguros puedan ser seguros para unas personas pero desactivar esa “seguridad” para otras personas.

En ese sentido, el bunker es desde ti, por ti y para ti.

¿Cómo hacer un plano de construcción?

  • Territorio concreto
  • Territorio abstracto
  • Territorio espiritual

¿Es posible hacer un espacio seguro? Se ha compartido que no es de todo posible porque lugares como Calafou en donde se parte del hecho que es seguro, es posible que se diga o haga algo que puede violentar a alguien sin que siquiera sea esa la intención. Por tanto, es necesario tener herramientas y trabajo previo para pensar más que en espacios seguros en espacios MÁS seguros.

En ocasiones cuando pensamos que un espacio es seguro y no lo es muchas veces porque hubo violencia de género. En ese sentido es necesario llevar procesos de sanación y el bunker es un intento de respuesta a ello.

No se sana sola, no se puede estar sola: conclusión postpandémica. El bunker es un juego lindo ya que es posible pensar en lugares deseables para estar bien. Aunque a veces es necesario crear un antibunker.

Desinstalemos de nuestro corazón las lógicas del sistema.

 

Agenda: Setting up infrastructure for your Feminist Helpline

Feminist_Helpline_ticketing_system_marialabThe goal of the session is to share about infrastructures, processes and choices behind a feminist helpline. The activity is divided into 2 parts:
-Presenting the choices, processes and technologies (human and digital) behind our Maria D’ajuda Helpline project (1h).
-Hands-on 🙂 Split into 5 groups to set up a ticketing system for documentation of cases Zammad   and digital safe spaces for communication (Jitsi and Mumble). (1h)

Languages: English + Castellano


Documentation

You can download the slides here > Feminist_Helpline_ticketing_system_marialab

And listen to the audio of the workshop here