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Project/initiative|Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Hungary, Romania, Kosovo, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Republic of North Macedonia|Regional

Grounding Retreat

Project title

Grounding Retreat

Description of initiative

The Grounding retreat program was born from the need to support, empower, and connect female activists, and artists who work with the community. They have organized two editions of the program. The first was held in Kelebia, a village near Subotica, and the second (2024.) regional meeting included women from Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Greece, and Hungary and it was held in Utrine.

Further information on the initiative

Themes: Culture and...

Individual well-being
Mental health
Work and workplace well-being

Keywords

retreat, menthal health, art, community work, group dinamics

Target group

Adults | Youth

Cultural field

Dance | Film, video | Literature | Multimedia, new media, digital | Music | Visual arts | Writing

Budget

€19.000

Timeframe

2023 - 2024

Sources of funding

Urgent Action Fund, European Fund for Balkans, HEINRICH BÖLL STIFTUNG BELGRADE

Results, benefits, impact and lessons learnt

The project arose out of the need for female activists and artists who work with the community to create a safe space where it is possible to support each other, share practices, discuss topics that are troubling activists, and through co-creation achieve support and empowerment of women who work with the community and strive to improve social circumstances by sacrificing private time and strength for the benefit of society. Living and working in precarious conditions, this is an opportunity to rest, recharge batteries and connect during the seven-day program. The impressions and feedback of the previous participants are positive, the program is necessary, the power of the community is healing, it is challenging to influence the dynamics of the group, and a space is opened in which you need to listen and feel the group.

Organizer(s)

Klara i Rosa
Serbia
NGO / Non-profit | Culture

Partner(s)

Urgent Action Fund
United States
Other | Other