The workshop is facilitated by Collective Care Berlin and organized by Educat Kollektiv.
Content
This workshop invites us to explore mental health not as an isolated personal issue, but as something deeply shaped by collective trauma, systemic collapse, and the grief of living in a world marked by violence, genocide, and ecological destruction.
Rather than offering quick fixes or individual coping strategies, we will practice being with discomfort, nurturing collective care, and building emotional resilience that honors the reality of structural harm.
Together, we’ll engage with frameworks that help us make sense of oppression and its impacts — while grounding in foundational practices like nervous system regulation, and relational skills such as deep listening and witnessing.
We will work with the body as a site of sensing, healing, and transformation—and incorporate moments of creativity, play, and joy as ways to reconnect and reimagine how we live through crisis. This is a learning space for reconnection, resilience, and reclaiming imagination.
All bodies, backgrounds, and levels of experience are welcome.
Place / Date
The event will take place in Berlin on Friday, 11th of July, from 10.30am to 5.30pm CET.
The venue is close to S-Bahn Hermannstraße and U-Bahn Leinestraße. The space is wheelchair-accessible. The exact location and further access information will be shared after signing up.
The Duration of the event is 7 hours with a longer lunch break (around 1 hour).
Rough timetable
- Arrival 10:00-10:30
- Morning Session 10:30-13:30
- Lunch Break 13:30-14:30
- Afternoon Session 14:30-17:30
- Closing 17:30
Estimated Work Amount
There is no prior reading or preparation required.
Barriers
All bodies, backgrounds, and levels of experience are welcome.
- We will do somatic exercises, body work and move around. This does not require you to be able-bodied. Everyone can skip exercises at any time and we will do our best to adjust practices according to the participants´ abilities. To avoid exclusion, let us know about disabilities or physical restrictions beforehand.
- Breaks: We will take breaks whenever it is needed and you can take breaks individually according to your needs.
- Childcare: we do not have childcare at the moment. If you come with kid(s) and need it, please inform us at least 2 weeks in advance.
- Snacks and beverages: we will have a selection of vegan snacks and water. Feel free to bring additional snacks and non-alcoholic beverages.
Language
English spoken language. Translation on the spot to German spoken language is possible, please inform us beforehand so we can also translate handout materials.
Costs
The event is free of charge. If you feel like you want to support the project, feel free to donate though 🙂 https://skills4crisis.org/#get-involved
Applying
The workshop is limited to 20 people. You can apply via our application platform “typeform”. You will be asked for a name and an E-Mail-address. We will also ask 5 questions to get to know you and your needs a little better. The details of the Workshop will be sent as soon as possible via E-Mail.
If you have questions, please send an E-Mail to skills4crisis@protonmail.com or write a direct message on Instagram @educatkollektiv with the Workshop title in the subject.
Facilitators
COLLECTIVE CARE BERLIN // citizenslab.eu
Julian Kraidelman
Julian is an activist, space holder, and yoga teacher currently based in Berlin. He is determined to understand and fight structural injustice with a focus on decolonial and environmental issues and continues to work on the level of the body through yoga and movement. Julian is currently enrolled in the Masters Program Geographies of Global Inequality at the FU Berlin.
Alice Priori
Alice is a community and process facilitator, Art of Hosting practitioner, activist, and dancer. She is the co-founder and coordinator of CitizensLab e.V., a Berlin-based organization driving deep systemic change across Europe. Working at the intersection of activism, societal transformation, and experiential learning, Alice supports groups, collectives, and artistic residencies in co-creating regenerative and just systems. Her work is grounded in collective care, somatics, and deep cultural change, with a strong focus on decolonization, power dynamics, and the commons. She is especially dedicated to collective healing and discovering new forms of democracy as essential practices of care, resistance, and renewal in times of crisis.
Giulia Orlandi
Giulia is an urban planner focused on urban sociology, is deeply involved in social-political processes and regenerative activism. As a part of CitizensLab and in Collective Care Berlin, they explore alternative learning through unlearning. Passionate about creating change and connecting struggles they work to build inclusive and sustainable communities. For the past 7 years they have focused on the political and social dimensions of women or more broadly the LGBTQIA+ community, in Germany and Italy. For at least the past two years, they have also focused much of their training on group facilitation and conflict resolution, basing much of their work on a critique and self-critique approach.
Aleksandra Kulesza
Aleksandra is a political scientist and academic by training. In the past, she conducted research on civil society, the crisis of democracy, and published on the topic of direct democracy. Today, she is an educator, facilitator of social change projects, and a clown who merges the science of social justice, trauma, and play with healing justice and liberation. In her praxis, she focuses on the practical application of political theory in daily life and works towards a cultural reorientation based on deep understanding and collective practice, under the motto: “I am well if you are well, we are well if the earth is well.” She reimagines community care to offer a possibility of shifting our spaces toward connectedness through meaningful rituals of presence and social solidarity. Her work is inspired by Staci Haines. In addition to her involvement with CitizensLab and Collective Care Berlin, she also supports Neue Generation in their efforts to bring citizen assemblies to life.
EDUCAT KOLLEKTIV
Fine
Fine is part of Educat Kollektiv and working from Berlin. For this Workshops Fine provides infrastructure, organisation and moderational support. Fine studied in Dresden and has been working full-time and voluntarily in youth education for many years. Fine holds workshops and seminars that combine methods of group pedagogy and team building with topics from critical education. Fine has also completed training as a trainer for extracurricular educational work and is almost finished with their certified experiential education training. One of the larger projects at Educat: Caring-arts.org <3.
