hanafubuki. Facilitating a texture of belonging

This workshop will be in English, but we can organise bilingual Dutch English. Let us know if you prefer that.

How brave it is to be kind? We lost our practice in kindness through a focus on competition, ego, and power. We perceive being kind is to be soft, weak, or vulnerable. Kindness towards others and ourselves is a practice that is underestimated until the moment you feel you need it the most. Adding kindness to the space makes it brave and empowering. Let’s try to find out how we perceive and practice kindness and how we can practice and develop kindness, in ourselves, and who knows, in others too.

The impossibility of being close during pandemic times strongly enhanced our belief in the importance of relationships and the need for safe spaces, or better, brave spaces. So, over the last year, we went inward and focused on teamwork, personal development, and coaching. We dived deep into learning dynamics and discovered the importance of de-learning. The goal was to be ready, together with the opening of the building, to share our knowledge. But the further we went, the better we knew: there is a lot more to learn. Along our journey, we met the most inspiring people. Amongst them the people behind Beyond Borders. So we collaborated and created an open workshop series to share with you.

We are proud and excited to invite you to hanafubuki, our first series of workshops on facilitating a texture of belonging. On becoming an invisible facilitator, on routines and the art of kindness. These workshop series is part of the Brave Space project that is part of our topic of Redefining Cultural Space. 

Fee

You can subscribe to one or go for the complete triple workshop. We ask you to pick the contribution fee that fits you best. Standard fee covers our costs. As a non-profit organisation, we use the support contribution to keep our program and building open and flexible.

*Hana is Japanese for cherry blossom and fubuki means snow storm. We associate the cherry blossom with beauty and peace and heaven and bliss, while we associate the snowstorm with cold and discontent and resistance. Literally it is a snowstorm of cherry blossoms. Hanafubuki means using the force of the snowstorm to create an environment of beauty and bliss. A metaphor for a blossoming and powerful community.

Publication : Francis Laleman, Resourceful exformation, 2020

available at Timelab bookshop (20 eu)