Peer counseling for Berlin clubs on addressing incidents of discrimination
As part of our ongoing evaluation of our free Awareness Academy workshop program for Berlin’s club culture, we have repeatedly found that participants view the cross-club and cross-sector exchange on their own challenges—particularly in the context of awareness-raising and anti-discrimination efforts—as highly valuable and helpful. At the same time, there is a growing need for support for clubs, collectives, and organizers in addressing specific instances of discrimination at their own events or within their own structures.
Although every transgression or assault is an individual incident in a specific situation, discrimination in the club context, as in the rest of society, is mostly structural and systematic. In other words, the challenges and problems are similar, and we can learn a lot from one another and support one another in coping with and constructively addressing incidents of discrimination. We would like to address and build upon these needs and opportunities with our new format of Collegial Case Consultation for Berlin clubs to address cases of discrimination.
From a systemic perspective, the peer counseling approach makes it possible to harness the collective wisdom of a group to solve problems. Within this framework, we aim to bring together people from various fields within Berlin’s club scene and collectives to discuss case studies from the club context under the guidance of a professional mediator, and to offer one another advice on how to address incidents of discrimination. The counseling will be led by a licensed mediator (BM®) specializing in anti-discrimination and facilitated by another person with practical experience in Berlin’s club culture.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 12:30–4:00 p.m., including a 30-minute break.
During the three-hour session, two anonymized case studies, each lasting 90 minutes, will be discussed.
Please send us anonymous case studies from your club or collective that you would like to discuss. Two case studies will be selected for discussion in the first session. Please describe the topic or the situation identified as a problem as precisely as possible. To ensure confidentiality, please do not mention specific names in the examples.
The event will take place in person in Berlin and will be conducted in English.
You can register by email: awareness@clubcommission.de
To complete your registration, we need the following information: name, organization, area of responsibility, email address, phone number, and a case study!
The target audience includes professionals from cultural institutions, as well as organizers and members of collectives within the club culture scene.
Participation is free, and the number of participants is limited to 12.