LET’S TALK Discrimination and Conflict Cases in Club Culture
Regardless of the club or collective, many challenges are similar. Simply discussing such situations together can be relieving and empowering. It becomes clear that others are facing similar questions and difficulties and that you are not alone in dealing with these challenges. Even if a concrete solution cannot be found immediately for every case, a space is created that strengthens, broadens perspectives, and enables collective learning.
In our new format, “LET’S TALK Discrimination and Conflict Cases in Club Culture,” stakeholders from different areas of club culture come together to discuss cases of discrimination and/or conflict and develop solutions in a collegial manner across clubs and trades.
On April 29 from 5-8pm
On site in Berlin
In English
Registration via: https://tally.so/r/81kR9r
The focus is on collegial exchange: participants bring examples from their club, collective, or event environment and receive feedback, new perspectives, and possible approaches for further action within the group. The exchange gives rise to different perspectives on complex situations—from structural issues to concrete courses of action in the everyday life of clubs and events.
The aim of the exchange round is to share knowledge, open up spaces for experience and jointly develop practical ways of dealing with discrimination, power imbalances and conflict-laden situations. This creates a collegial learning environment that goes beyond individual cases and strengthens sensitivity to structures, incidents and conflicts within the scene.
Networking across different clubs, collectives, and trades creates resilience: it enables experiences to be shared, solidarity to be lived, and collective strategies to be developed. We want to address these needs and opportunities in this exchange format for Berlin clubs and collectives – to create a space together that not only informs, but also empowers and connects.
Participants are invited to contribute their own cases or questions. These can be submitted in advance or brought to the group. The aim is to reflect on specific situations together, learn from each other, and develop new ways of dealing with difficult or conflict-laden situations in one’s own work context.
The exchange round is facilitated by two certified mediators. They ensure a safe environment, structure the discussions, and help to ensure that different perspectives are heard and that the exchange remains respectful and solution-oriented. At the same time, they contribute methodological ideas from mediation that help to resolve deadlocked situations.
Agnes Dyszlewski and Lian Fleitmann will facilitate the session.
Agnes‘ focus is on moderation and maintaining the framework, while Lian supplements this with content-related input from awareness and conflict work.