Consent at Work
Part of Safer Spaces at Work Series
07.01.2023 – Berlin
18.03.2023 – Cologne
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Learn consent tools that help you to co-create a work environment where people feel valued and safe to just be themselves.
We will do a awareness deep dive into consent skills, boundaries, and non-violent communication. By using methods from Design Thinking we will translate our learnings to our workplace, teamwork, and day-to-day life.
Meet your facilitators
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Tanja is a relationship coach. She works trauma-therapeutical and explores emotional states of clients instead of giving quick solutions. She believes that the most effective long-term changes happen through exploring the conscious and the unconscious emotions of a client in a curious and loving way. With that we strengthen the self-effectiveness and self-love of clients and let them find their own unique best solution.
She also works full-time as a R&D engineer in a male-dominated conservative area where she learned over the past 4.5 years to question the perspectives of her colleagues instead of feeling wrong about her needs and values, which were so different from her male colleagues. She went from feeling extremely unsafe in her work environment to feeling mostly safe. And because she knows the pain coming from feeling unsafe it is a heart project for her to support creating safer work spaces.
MY BIASES:
WHITE, 31 Y.O., FEMALE, GERMAN, ACADEMIC, MATERNAL MIGRATION BACKGROUND
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is a Design Thinking Coach (HPI) with a background in Speculative Design (HfK). They love to facilitate and co-create safer spaces in which we can thrive to learn expand our skillsets and gain new perspectives for more empathic and warmer workspaces.
Apart from workshops, they worked in the past as ski and snowboard instructor, as a cook on a cabin in the alps, and as a volunteer at the Porn Film Festival Vienna and multiple Sex Positive and Body Neutral Festivals.
MY BIASES:
WHITE, EU-CITIZEN, NON-BINARY, QUEER, AMAB, 27Y.O., ACADEMIC, WORKING-MIGRANT BACKGROUND
Who is this workshop for?
The Safer Spaces at Work Workshops are for people who see potential and opportunity to change something for good.
The workshop and you are a match if you want to challenge the status quo, and enjoy reflecting on your perspectives, and the way you do your day-to-day business. Then, let’s get ready to co-create safer spaces where we can be more authentic, vulnerable, valued and empowered.
What’s this workshop all about?
In the Consent at Work workshop we will learn how to understand other perspectives better, how to set our own boundaries, how to appreciate the boundaries of others, and how we can empower each other to voice our needs – what we like, how we like it, and what not.
We will also understand how our relationships with each other impact and shape our (work) environments and what Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces, Accountable Spaces, and Safer Spaces are.
On our half-day journey, we will explore how a work culture that embraces boundaries and safer spaces can contribute to more (stress) resilient teams where we value each other.
And we will go further, and ideate possible solutions and create graspable prototypes which we will test. Finally we will derive action items to take the inspiration to reality. That you will be able to co-create safer spaces yourself and integrate more consent into your workspace.
What is this workshop not about? It is not a quick fix for all of your conflicts at work, or a DE&I badge that you can use for your company. It’s also not a sex-positive workshop (even-though terminology is inspired by this). We are also not getting together to finger-point at each other.
Instead, we are here to consciously learn with each other, and to learn from the past, to set the direction in the present for co-creating futures with more Safer Spaces where we can be our holistical selves.
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In a nutshell “Design Thinking is a systematic, human-centered approach to solving complex problems within all aspects of life.” (HPI Academy)
We see Design Thinking also as a holistic mindset on how we approach challenges at work and in our personal life. The Design Thinking core consists of the Team, the Process, and the space.
The multidisciplinary team works in a predefined space (time, physical or digital space, predefined challenge) along an iterative process consisting of the Problem Space, followed by the Solution Space.
The Problem Space generally consists of two stages*: Understand and Empathise, and Define. These are followed by the Ideation, Prototyping, and Testing stage within the Solution Space.
The process is non-linear. Meaning that iteration is a crucial part of Design Thinking.
*We also include the stage Sensitization as a basis before the Problem Space. Here we gain an understanding of our own position, privilege, and biases. This step is crucial in the work with the co-creation of Safer Spaces.
Program 10:00 - 15:00
Arrival
Kick-Off
Check-In
Common Ground and “Get to know each other”
Input on Design Thinking and Safer Spaces
Group exercises
Lunch Break
Guided Design Thinking Sprint to translate the learnings
Recap
Check-Out
Consent at Work
Part of Safer Spaces at Work Series
07.01.2023 – Berlin
18.03.2023 – Cologne
Thank you for participation!
Join my email list to not miss the next workshop.