Building Awareness Concepts and Structures – First Steps Towards Sustainable and Accountable Spaces
How do we create safer, more inclusive, and accountable spaces – not only at events, but also within our own collectives and organisations? Which will then reflect and expand to the events and spaces we create. Clubs, cultural spaces, and collectives often recognise the need for awareness concepts and structures but struggle with where to begin, how to build them, or how to make them sustainable. This workshop offers a starting point — grounded in practice, care, and political clarity.
“Building Awareness Structures – First Steps Towards Sustainable and Accountable Spaces” is an interactive workshop created and facilitated by the awareness collective Roses of Care (ROC). Drawing from our own lived and embodied experiences as queer, trans*, BIPoC, and migrant activists, facilitators, and awareness care workers, we support collectives in building awareness practices rooted in intersectional queer & trans feminism, anti-racism, and transformative justice.
What We’ll Do Together
This workshop is designed as a space to support clubs, event organisers, and collectives in developing or reworking their awareness concepts and structures — whether you’re just starting out or in need of reflection and feedback.
Together we will:
• Offer an overview of areas where awareness work is needed — both externally (e.g. at events, parties, festivals, conferences) and internally (e.g. team dynamics, decision-making, conflict resolution)
• Explore different functions of awareness work: care, support, safety, prevention, accountability
• Analyse specific needs: What kind of space do you hold? What are the power dynamics? Who is present – and who is missing?
• Create space for reflection, peer exchange, and dialogue about the realities and limitations of awareness work
• Discuss best practice examples from events and organisations we’ve accompanied, and the ones you have experienced
• Work through a collaborative checklist that you can take home and adapt for your own context
Our facilitation will centre the importance of lived experience, care work, and community accountability — not perfection or rigid protocols. We aim to shift away from fear and punishment, and towards shared responsibility and collective learning/growth.
This workshop is especially for:
• Event organisers, collectives, club crews, cultural workers and collectives
• Teams who want to start or reflect on their awareness work
• Groups working toward safer, anti-discriminatory spaces
• People who want to understand the political and practical layers of awareness work
Practical Info
• Facilitated by: Roses of Care (ROC) Awareness Collective
• Format: Inputs, interactive group work, collective discussion
• Duration: 5 hours in total, including breaks.
• What to bring: Your questions, your context, and an openness to reflect and build together
November 19, from 11am – 4pm
On site in Berlin
Registration via: awareness@clubcommission.de
About ROC:
Roses of Care Awareness Collective works at the intersections of transformative justice, anti- racism, and queer & trans feminism. We are a queer collective, with an important presence of trans*, Global Majority migrants, and BIPoCs. We bring embodied knowledge from our communities, activism and daily lives into every workshop, shift, accompanied process and intervention — trying to centre care, access, consent, and accountability, while still making many fruitful mistakes along the process.
Registration via Mail: awareness@clubcommission.de