FEPS Training Manual – How to counter gender domination techniques?

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The Training Manuals belong to the toolbox of the FEPS Training Programme. This training was designed for the “Gender Equality: how to pursue it in the context of right wing, authoritarian regimes? The cases of Hungary, Serbia, Poland” Project in 2024, hence the methodology described below has already been successfully applied.

Aim:

This training aims to teach participants about Gender Dominance Techniques and how to counter them. The trainers will facilitate open discussions about these sensitive topics. The main activity is a theatre workshop in which the ideas are explored further in an interactive manner.

Explanation:

Domination Techniques

• Domination Techniques are strategies to exert power over others, in other words, to elicit certain types of behavior from others for one’s own purposes. These are methods that are often used to make and keep those who have less or little power passive and submissive.

• Can be experienced based on race, ethnicity, gender, age, class, or sexual orientation, and occur in politics, at work, in the media and in social interaction.

This training focuses on the gender aspect but can be adapted to suit the other aspects too.

The participants of this training will:

• Understand the phenomenon of domination techniques

• Gain the ability to recognise these techniques in the future

• Discuss their personal experiences between one another

• Create a piece of theatre on the topic

• Gain confidence to tackle these techniques in the future, and avoid being a “bystander”

Duration: 5 hours seminar

Target Group: Activists, local and national politicians, party members