Gender Equity and Reconciliation Workshop
Healing and Transformation of Gender Relations
Cultivating authentic dialogue and healing the gender divide
DATE: 31 May – 2 June 2018
TIME: 09h00 – 17h00
VENUE: The Armoury 2, Woodstock
COST: R1,500 (Regular)
R1,000 (Scholarship/Low Income)
REGISTRATION: Garrett@grworld.org OR zanele@grworld.org
Please join us to…
- Discover new pathways of healing, mutual respect, authenticity, and equitable relations between the genders
- Experience deep authentic connection and Ubuntu
- Cultivate respectful and authentic dialogue
- Develop greater awareness of gender and sexuality injustice and inequality in our communities and our personal lives
“The work of racial integration is never going to be complete without the work
of gender reconciliation.”
– Rev. Mpho Tutu, Former Executive Director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation
THE NEW CONVERSATION
With Freedom Day behind us, the hearts and minds of South Africans continue to centre on race, class, and socio-economic exclusion and injustice that continues to plague our young democracy. Issues of gender and sexuality are only a footnote. Yet a whole new conversation is urgently needed to address the challenges that inhibit us from experiencing our full humanity. These challenges are rooted in our gender conditioning and socialisation.
AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH – GENDER EQUITY AND RECONCILIATION
Gender issues lie at the heart of many of the social issues that plague our communities and personal lives: relationship problems, bullying, domestic violence, gangsterism, violent crime, substance abuse, lack of intimacy, loneliness, teenage pregnancy, rape, homophobia, etc. The transformation of gender relations is key to enhancing our freedoms as humans and as citizens and creating sustainable peace in our society. The Gender Equity and Reconciliation process provides a rare yet much-needed forum to jointly confront the personal, social and cross-cultural origins of gender oppression and wounding, and to reach mutual healing, harmony and empathic understanding.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
- This workshop will consist of:
- Experiential processes and exercises
- Discussions in plenary, small groups, pairs, and debriefings
Be highly participatory
All are welcome – whatever your faith, ethnic and cultural background, sexual orientation or gender identity.
The future of humanity will be decided not by relations between nations, but by relations between men and women. – D.H. Lawrence