Women’s role in Peace and Security 

Trainers: Nura Hagi and Arran Towers, Mind the Gap

Workshop Content: This workshop will provide a deep exploration and discussion of empowering women to ensure Peace & Security. You will explore how community engagement and cultural training is currently shaping national policy in Ireland. You will look at the Global Goals 2030 through a peace and justice lens using the historic case study of Somalia and the present day role of Ireland as chair of the UN Security Council. The workshop will allow practitioners/educators to reflect on how gender inequality, misunderstanding the impacts of trauma and lack of cultural empathy obstruct meaningful community engagement and inclusion.

An Introduction to Disability in Development Education

Trainers: Louise Talbot-Beirne and Mary Keogh, CBM Ireland

Workshop Content: 15% of the global population are living with a disability. 80% of them live in poverty (WHO, 2011). How can we include people with disabilities in our Development Education practice? How can we include the topic of disability in our programmes? Framed around these questions, this workshop will give participants an introduction to the concepts of disability inclusion and accessibility. It will give space to ask the difficult questions and explore solutions together. 

Acting for Change: A Creative Approach to Equality for All

Trainer: Michael McCabe, Smashing Times

Workshop Content: This theatre-based workshop explores equality and a shared future through a fun, participative process.  Participants engage in drama and theatre games and exercises and open discussion reflecting on themes of equality and a shared future for all. It offers the opportunity for participants to stop, take a moment and breathe and explores, through practical games and exercises and through group discussion, the roles that mindfulness, breathing and physical activity can play to promote well-being in times of change.   

*This is running in parallel with the IDEA Evaluation Focus Group - see below for more details

Cultural Embodiment: from stereotypes towards empathy

Trainer: Sandra Gojić 

Workshop Content: We will be exploring the concept of Cultural Embodiment and discuss how places and communities we inhabit shape us and our understanding of the world. You will be invited on a personal exploration of your own embodiment and cultural patterns and understand how they link to your daily life and perception of others and the world. We will explore what are the advantages and disadvantages of our own cultural embodiment and how can this exploration open new possibilities for learning and connection. This workshop is open to everyone, no previous experience with the topic needed. 

Disclaimer: we will be working with embodied learning principles that include simple movement and guided visualisation practice. 

Inequality – bringing it all back home

Trainer: Peadar King 

Workshop Content: The aim of this workshop is to provide a historical and contemporary overview of the way in which the late 1970s / early 1980s emergence of neoliberalism became the dominant global economic paradigm and how it has contributed to the rise of global inequality.