Collective Care Learning Sessions

Collective Care Learning Sessions

29th of November 10 am – 5 pm @ GROND

It is not always easy to stay close to your ideals – especially when we are working and living together. Community and collectivity are beautiful and powerful agents for change. However, it also involves a lot of challenges. The demands of society keep on knocking on our collective door. Against our best intentions, we are conditioned by the neoliberal structures that we want to get rid of, and we bring this into the groups we formed to fight them. How do we stay with this trouble and also take care of each other and ourselves? It takes learning and unlearning to find healthier ways forward. 

Sounds familiar? Join us for the  Collective Care Learning Sessions – a day to explore how to rethink, create and sustain collectivity in these challenging times in the wild west world we live in. 

Come as you are: alone, or together with members from the collective or community you are in.

Let’s (un)learn, care, and create together on Saturday 29 November from 10:00 – 17:00 @ GROND, including a delicious Ethiopian lunch by Teferi Mekonen (7,50 euros, including tea / coffee). Location: GROND, Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam.

Program

• 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee / Tea 
• 10:30 – 11:30 Introduction & Warming Up Session 
• 11:30 – 13:00 Collective Learning by Sharing – a conversation with Gertrude Flentge (Lumbung Practice, Documenta 15) and Danielle van Zuijlen (Kunsthal Gent) about how to translate collective values into practice and learning curves.
• 13:00 – 14:00 Food for thought – a warming collective lunch prepared by Teferi Mekonen & Betty (7,50 euros)
• 14:00 – 15:30 Embodied Learning – a somatic workshop by Marc Nukoop and Mazen Al Ashkar
• 15:30 – 16:30 From Social Safety to Collective Care – a presentation by the GROND Collective on the process of defining collective values
• 16:30 – 17:00 Drinks

Registration

Please register through this link. We want to prevent food waste 🙂

GROND is a collectively run art space rooted in connectivity, sustainability, and cross-pollination. We explore new ways of living and working together to deepen our connection with ourselves, others, and the world around us. We hope and believe this leads to the change we desperately need for all of us.