The first session of the Men’s Group initiative in Biteri
The first session of the Men’s Group initiative in Biteri
The first session of the Men’s Group initiative in Biteri
The Biteri Hall of Residence and the Elkarhezitzen and Piper Txuriak associations have organised the Men’s Group meeting in order to promote a training initiative on issues related to equality.
The session took place on 16 January at the facilities of the Hall of Residence and was attended by 12 men of different profiles. The evaluation of the conference was positive and more sessions will be held soon.
The objective of the event focused on generating a space of trust, complicity and warmth to face a work of introspection and create a new awareness that allows one to consider personal changes, and based on them, social changes. All in order to generate a new way of establishing relationships between men and women and a new way of being male and of feeling and living masculinity.
The tools developed in the group comprised techniques and group activities on personal knowledge (self-knowledge), connection, and introspection, which generate enough confidence to face a long and, at the same time, enriching work.
The Men’s Group Tutor is Juanma Feito, coordinator and founder of “Piper Txuriak,” the Men’s Association for Equality of Bilbao, which been awarded by the DEPUTATION OF BISCAY (ZIRGARI SARIAK 2016), for its trajectory in favour of equality between men and women.
During the coming weeks, we intend to complement the initiative with a number of open training sessions by Ritxar Bacete, specialising in gender studies and new masculinities and work with men on equal opportunities and prevention of violence against women.
The next session will take place on 5 February, Tuesday, at 6:30 pm.