Our education programme: “Without Taboos”
The aim of the educational programme “Without Taboos” is to dispel misconceptions, fears and prejudices about sexual and gender minorities. The facilitators are trained volunteers, who use their own life stories to illustrate the difficulties LGBTQ+ people face, the meaning of social stigmatization and exclusion, and what we can do for a more inclusive world.
In this education package, we offer various awareness-raising trainings and workshops to different target groups.
You can order a training by completing the form below. The fee of the training is subject to negotiation, we shall send a quotation in the email responding to the submitted form. Should you have any questions, please contact us at tabuknelkul@labrisz.hu.
TRAININGS:
For professionals in pedagogy and health care: “Without Taboos” – Professional Courage Training
Aim:
To prepare professionals in teaching and health care professions to communicate empathically, expertly and understandingly within the topic of sexual and gender minorities and support theirLGBTQIA clients.
Topics:
- The formation and strengthening of majority/minority identities
- Stereotypes, prejudices, the operation of discrimination
- LGBTQIA terminology
- The legal/human rights situation of LGBTQIA people in Hungary
- Case studies from the everyday lives of sexual and gender minority people
- Diverse ways and opportunities of support and cooperation
Methods:
- Interactive exercises
- Small group discussions
- Sharing individual and group experiences
- Roleplay
- Opinion-sharing and debate
- Planning a mini-project
Length: 3 or 6 hours
For professionals in pedagogy and health care: Inclusive Spaces
Aim:
By the end of the training, participants:
- Will be familiar with LGBTQIA concepts and the negative social effects of homo- and transphobic laws;
- Will be able to incorporate LGBTQIA contents into their work where they consider it relevant;
- Will be able to apply methods adapted to their own environment that help prevent and handle bullying;
- Will prepare a plan tailored for their own institution to make it more inclusive.
Topics:
- Layers of identity, minority identities
- Human rights knowledge
- LGBTQIA terminology
- How stereotypes and prejudices work
- Misconceptions and reality
- Listing supporting opportunities and methods on the individual, group and institutional level
- Creation of action plans
Methods:
- Interactive spatial exercises with movement
- előadás
- kiscsoportos ismeretfeldolgozó gyakorlatok
- érvelés, vita
- Roleplay
- projekttervezés egyénileg, párban, kiscsoportban
- projektbemutatás, megbeszélés, véleményezés
- hálózatépítés
Length: 16 hours
- 8 hours on-site training
- Individual learning, individual or group tasks and online consultation (altogether 5 hours)
- online closing event (3 hours)
For parents: “Without Taboos” – parental workshop
Aim:
To inform majority parents and prepare them to what it means to find out about another person’s sexual or gender minority status within one’s narrow (family) and broader (social) circle and how give an affirmative, supportive reaction.
Topics:
- Myths and facts
- Case studies
- LGBTQIA terminology
- Ways and opportunities of support
Methods:
- Frontal presentation
- Interactive exercises
- Small group discussions
- Sharing individual and group experiences
- Opinion-sharing and debate
Length: 3 hours or 90 minutes
For young people: “Without Taboos” – for young people
Aim:
A personal approach to the topic of sexual and gender minorities with the help of empirical experts and the storytelling method. Raising awareness of one’s own responsibility in preventing and handling homo- and transphobic bullying.
Topics:
- Searching for/finding one’s identity
- Coping with other people’s and one’s own prejudices
- Concepts
- The power of words
- Reacting to coming out
- Ways of support
Methods:
- Interactive exercises
- Case studies
- Frontal presentation
- Small group discussions
- Opinion-sharing and debate
Length: 90 minutes
For companies and businesses: “Without Taboos” – for employees
Aim:
To improve equal opportunities (and thus increased efficiency) at the workplace by jointly rethinking and processing a topic that is strongly taboo. To make it clear what it takes to create a workplace that is safe and inclusive for sexual and gender minorities as well.
Topics:
- How prejudices work
- Clarification of concepts
- Reflection on the lives of minorities based on personal life stories
- Empathic, assertive communication on the topic of sexual and gender minorities
- The question of taking responsibility individually and as a company
Methods:
- Interactive exercises
- Case studies
- Frontal presentation
- Small group discussions
- Opinion-sharing and debate
Length: 90 minutes or 3 hours
For young people and educators: Fairytales differently
Aim:
Read more about the story of A Fairytale for Everyone című meseantológia 2-3 meséje erkölcsi, emberi jogi üzeneteinek mélyebb kibontása, kreatív feldolgozása.
Buzzwords, key words:
- Individual challenges and struggles
- Finding one’s identity
- The power of loving relationships
- Building trust
- Diversity of family structures
- The power of supporting people and communities
Methods:
- Free narration
- Group work
- Text creation, creative storytelling
- Opinion-sharing and debate
Length: 90 minutes
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