Our workshops can be adapted to different levels and years. We have experience with many target groups and can connect well with the students' world (primary, secondary, vocational and higher education as well as university).
The objectives for each workshop are listed at the end of the workshop description. The working methods are always led by a professional.
Back to the basics
Acquiring fundamental knowledge about discrimination is essential for building a society with equal opportunities for everyone. In this workshop, participants will learn what discrimination means according to the law, what forms of discrimination exist, and how it works in your brain. Why does our brain create categories, and why do we have prejudices? With this knowledge, we become more aware of how discrimination arises and what we can do ourselves to counter it.
When do you cross a line?
Boundaries differ per person but can also vary per situation. In fact, a boundary can change within minutes. Many things depend on this, but ultimately it's about what makes you feel comfortable. In this workshop, participants will discuss boundaries during going out and see what influences the boundaries of the actors through a film.
How do you see others?
Everyone sees the world and the people in it differently. But how aware are you of this? And once you know this, how do you handle it? Getting to know your own (unconscious) prejudices is the first step. Through photos of very diverse people (and the conversation about them), students discover their own assumptions.
What's your story?
Discrimination is sometimes intangible; you hear and read a lot about it, but what does it really look like? In this workshop, someone with a personal story about exclusion visits. The students ask questions and engage in conversation. This increases empathy for people who are discriminated against. Various volunteers are used. Fled has the same format but is about the story of a refugee.
We are not there yet.
During World War II, extreme forms of discrimination were applied worldwide. Large groups of people were persecuted for who they were. Is it different now? We discuss what happened during the war and think about the consequences. Then we draw the comparison with today, which groups still experience discrimination?
What the WIC did in Groningen
This working method is done outdoors in the city centre of Groningen. Our staff guide the students to places linked to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Few people know that there was a WIC head office in Groningen and that the city and the surrounding area benefited greatly from this trade.
Including Suriname and the Netherlands, among others.
Curaçao, Bonaire, and Suriname, almost every Dutch person knows these were Dutch colonies. Few people know that the Netherlands had more than 50 colonies during the VOC and WIC era. This working method specifically addresses slavery and the impact of colonialism.
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