INTRODUCTORY SESSION
ABOUT THE SESSION
Welcome to SPACE 22
INTRODUCTORY SESSION BREAKDOWN
This is the first session of the 9 week long programme. We are happy to share this time with you!
During the introductory session we will take the time to get to know one another through the below questions:
We also ask you to share one or two of your favorite songs so that we can compile a SPACE22 playlist. We will be playing songs at the beginning or ending of sessions.
The session will be co-facilitated by Cynthia El-Khoury and Daniela Bello
Daniela Bello | Mexico
Daniela Bello has a Master’s degree in Political Action, Institutional Strengthening and Citizen Participation from URJC (Spain) and a Bachelor degree in Communication Sciences from UDLAP (Mexico).
Daniela works for Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad A.C. (REDES A.C), an organization in Mexico that helps indigenous communities to build and manage their own low-cost, open-source communications infrastructure, through training and legal support. Also, she collaborates for the LocNET project, an initiative led by The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Rhizomatica, in a program to connect the unconnected and to close the digital gap in rural and remote areas, through the development of community networks.
Daniela is interested in community communication and local content production. Also she enjoys traveling, swimming, making pottery, eating food from around the world and spending time with her cat.
Cynthia El-Khoury | Canada
Cynthia currently coordinates the gender and women's engagement at the local access initiative along with the self, collective and organizational care work at APC. Cynthia holds over 10 years of experience in sexuality and healing justice grassroots organising, community-led research and programme development. She is passionate about deconstructing and transforming notions of power and violence and focuses her energies on sharing her passion for politics of care, transforming trauma and expanding the spaces for structurally oppressed individuals to assert their powers. She is fascinated with the technologies of the body in its physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual dimensions.
Her personal healing of years of structural violence and war trauma inspires her approach to programmatic work, and self and collective care. She works with individuals and groups to create vessels of holding which are rooted in the ancestral matriarchal ways of the eastern Mediterranean region where she comes from.
Cynthia holds a graduate degree in public health, with a focus on health promotion and community health. She is also a Somatic Experiencing practitioner for trauma resolution, an Aikido practitioner and a certified Reusi Dat Ton instructor.