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Glossary

How we work

Awareness as practice and process
We want to live the content we project outward, especially in our internal structures. We are in a process of experimentation: searching for ways to incorporate sensitivity to discrimination, flat hierarchies and criticism of authority and dominance into our organization. In doing so, we've tried things, stumbled, learned from experiences, overturned structures, and rethought them — it's an ongoing, never-completed process.

Grassroots democracy and collective project leadership
We work with collective project management and leadership and try to jointly bear responsibility for the association. This means, among other things, that we discuss and decide on decisions and strategies together in the plenary.

Orientation Toward the Common Good and a Solidary Payment Model
We work not for profit but with a clear stance as a charitable association. We try to make our offerings available to as many people as possible, especially small groups without financial means. Therefore, we work with a solidarity-based payment model where everyone chooses our fee according to their possibilities. We do not work with actors who contradict our understanding of a better world.

Awareness and criticism of authority in our own structures mean constant learning, experimenting, and further development

High ideals and pragmatic strategies
We have a clear emancipatory claim, high ideals, and utopias. In reality, however, we constantly face the status quo in our work: funding logics, right-wing culture war, internalized and structural power structures — all of this makes our work a constant balancing act. Where do we want to compromise, where would we betray our ideals? We continuously discuss these questions and renegotiate them. Gladly with you too — contact us at hallo@initiative-awareness.de!

Anti-discrimination and Awareness in our practice
Our work on awareness in structures also takes place practically within ourselves. Here are some excerpts from our internal awareness concept and working mode:

  • Regular emotional plenary sessions

  • Regular supervision formats and external support

  • Discrimination-sensitive application procedure

  • Regular training and learning processes

  • Internal guidelines on discrimination and violence

  • Pursuing a culture of collective responsibility

  • Internal reflection and dismantling of hierarchies

  • Continuous revision of the internal awareness concept

  • and more