A note on inclusive language

🔄 A learning spiral in four main stages

The learning journey unfolds over 9 months, alternating between regular online sessions and in-person seminars in Brussels.

1. Remembering our tangled histories

Culture – complexity – memory – diversity – otherness

→ Building common ground. Reconnecting with our roots, stories, and plural inheritances. Deconstructing our representations of culture, difference, and normality.

📅 November 2026: 🇧🇪 16–20 November

2. Ourselves within systems of domination

Systemic oppression – privilege – strategies – mechanisms

→ Understanding how systems of domination act upon and through us. Identifying dynamics within groups and organisations.

📅 January 2027: 🇧🇪 18–22 January

3. From a culture of collective trauma to a culture of repair

Transformation – power – care – alliance – accountability – repair

→ Connecting lived experiences of oppression with collective dynamics. Exploring pathways towards repair, safety, memory, and transformation.

📅 March 2027: 🇧🇪 15–19 March

4. Creole intelligence and activist joy

Joy – kinship – creativity – commitment – facilitation

→ Integrating an embodied and joyful practice of social justice. Developing an anti-oppressive facilitation practice. Cultivating creativity, courage, mutual care, alliance-building, and collective momentum.