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How We Raise Our Boys
A 4-day, 2 hours each day, interactive online workshop aimed at building our knowledge on masculinities, reflect on our own experiences around gender, and sexuality, and curate resources together towards creating gender-inclusive and sensitive classrooms/other spaces for children and young people we engage with as educators.
This year, the workshop is conducted online in four languages, English, and Hindi held in June 2023 and currently, we are accepting registrations for Marathi and Bhojpuri languages. For more details on this, please check FAQs.
Since 2020, The Gender Lab has engaged with about 572 educators including teachers, social workers, and other professionals working with children.
HWROB is hosted by The Gender Lab under their Redefining Masculinities vertical.
About Gender Lab
The Gender Lab is a non-profit that works towards empowering adolescents and youth in urban and rural communities in India to question existing gender narratives through critical and meaningful engagement within their communities.
Components of HWROB Program
- 4-days, 2 hours each day participatory online workshop
- Continued engagement through Learning Together: How We Raise Our Boys
About Learning Together: How We Raise Our Boys (LT)
Learning Together: How We Raise Our Boys is an extension of the How We Raise Our Boys workshop, where interested participants become part of a closed learning group in the spirit of building a community of educators working towards gender-inclusive spaces for children.
As a participant member of the Learning Together community:
One can participate in knowledge-building spaces.
- Attend a series of exclusive sessions hosted for community members:
- Use this space to build relationships, partnerships, and collaborations.
- Share questions and challenges one faces in their workspaces and communities.
- Stay connected to continue growing and learning together.
A Learning Together WhatsApp group link will be shared with the participants during HWROB Workshop to stay connected and share learnings and resources.
Lets Register to know more!
Why is this 4 Days, 2 hours each day Online Workshop?
This workshop is for you if you are a school educator who works with children:
- If you are interested in exploring gender-inclusive practices to implement in the classrooms/other spaces to become a better support system for children.
- If you would like to find your own educator/teacher’s community where you can share and explore your perspectives around gender and learn with each other in the group.
- If you are willing to engage with the group of participants consistently and can sign up to complete post-workshop activities and exercises within your work area to translate the workshop learnings into action.
Expectations from the Participants
- Commitment: This 4-days, 2 hours each day interactive workshop is connected and informed by each other in terms of learning, it is highly recommended you be present all three days, but we do understand emergent situations and genuine reasons, so do let us know prior if you are unable to join.
- Participation:
In an effort to translate our learnings into action, this year, we have incorporated an action component to the workshop model, wherein the participants are expected to take up an action project in their own communities/schools with children. The project could be self-paced and informed by the workshop module which could then be implemented with the support from The Gender Lab team and co-participants based on our individual needs and capacity. We look forward to collaborating with you on this project!
Commitment
This 3-day interactive workshop is connected and informed by each other in terms of learning, it is highly recommended you be present all three days, but we do understand emergent situations and genuine reasons, so do let us know prior if you are unable to join.
Participation
We invite people to learn, participate, and challenge their thoughts; we encourage you to bring your own essence to the space.
Respecting people
People come from different cities, states, and cultures, with diverse identities, to participate and connect. Disrespectful, violent behavior and sexual remarks won’t be tolerated.
Schedule
Dates and Language:
11, 12, 13th and 14th December 2023: Marathi and Bhojpuri Language
Where: Zoom (online)
Day 1, 5 pm to 7:00 pm | Unlearning gender – learning about key concepts and terminologies around gender while locating it in the larger context of identities and power where our experiences are gendered |
Day 2, 5 pm to 7:00 pm | What are masculinities – continuation from day 1 bringing focus to masculinities and experiences around the same. |
Day 3, 5 pm to 7:00 pm | Understanding Sexualities – exploring the basics of what sexuality means, especially in the context of educational spaces. |
Day 4, 5 pm to 7:00 pm | Lessons to action – looking at ways to adapt knowledge on gender into classroom & spaces with children through identifying tools for the same. |
Resource Persons
Deepak was born and raised in slum areas of Mumbai. Did primary education in BMC schools, associated with CORO for the last 20 years. He started his journey in the social sector while doing his study. He did more than 2000 street play on social issues. After that worked in the health and education sectors in various organizations like Alert India, TISS, ICRW, and population council, and now working in CORO as a project coordinator on the Gender sensitization program.
सुदूर बिहार के गाँव में पली-बढ़ी प्रियंका के जीवन में संयोग से ही डोली की जगह विश्वविद्यालय आया। दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय के मिरांडा हाउस से ग्रेड्यूट, वो अपने समुदाय की पहली पीढ़ी की शिक्षित महिला है। कॉलेज के तुरंत बाद उन्होंने अपने प्रतिबद्धता की खोज में यूथ अलायन्स के रूरल फेलो के रूप में कानपुर देहात के गाँव में सामुदायिक काम के लिए निकल पड़ी थी। पिछले वर्ष हुए पंचायत चुनाव में वो अपने पंचायत की पहली असली महिला मुखिया उम्मीदवार रही। जिन्होंने अपने कैम्पेन से महिला नेतृत्त्व और सैद्धांतिक राजनीति का एक नया विमर्श खड़ा किया। फिलहाल वो ग्राम चेतना आंदोलन के सहसंस्थापिका के रूप में गाँव में ग्राम-स्वराज एवं महिला प्रतिनिधित्त्व पर लोगों को संगठित करने के प्रयास में लगी हुई हैं। वो पूर्व में इंडियन स्कूल ऑफ डेमोक्रेसी और रीप बेनिफिट की एलुमनाई रह चुकी हैं।
काजल के जनम आ परवरिश मुंबई के झुग्गी-झोपड़ी में भइल रहे.
वर्तमान में काजल द जेंडर लैब के साथ एम्पावरिंग एडोलसेंट गर्ल्स के वर्टिकल में पूर्व छात्र समुदाय के लीड के रूप में काम करेली। काजल अक्षरा सेंटर संस्था से उच्च शिक्षा खातिर छात्रवृत्ति खातिर चयनित होके सामाजिक क्षेत्र में आपन यात्रा शुरू कइली। अक्षरा सेंटर, ईपावर इंडिया आ ब्राइट फ्यूचर जइसन विविध संगठनन के साथे लैंगिक न्याय आ सामाजिक न्याय के स्पेस में काम करे के 6 साल से अधिका के अनुभव उहाँ के कइले बानी आ किशोर लोग के अलग अलग समूहन के साथे सामुदायिक मुद्दा पर सत्र लेहले आ प्रोजेक्ट कइले बानी।
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Feedback from the HWROB participants
"Yes, I have been personally following the Gender Lab workshops for the last 2 years, but I was unable to enroll due to the language barrier (Hindi/Marathi). I am so glad you have considered expanding the workshops to vernacular languages. And the lived and shared experiences of people across places are tied to the diversity factor so well. It was enriching to listen to so many people with such intense experiences. It was fantastic listening to the real voices from the grassroots level."
Krishna Kumari, HWROB, Tamil.
पहले दिन के प्रशिक्षण के द्वारा हमे पता चला की जेण्डर क्या है और हमारे द्वारा किस तरह से भेदभाव होता है ,जिसका हमे आभास नहीं होता है। कुछ कुछ जानकारी थी, लेकिन भोजपुरी भाषा मे जानकारी मिली यह हमारे लिए नया था।और डा0संजय एंव आशा जी द्वारा बहुत कुछ नया जानकारी मिल जो मेरे लिए काफी उपयोगी हैं।
जान्हवी दत्त, HWROB, Bhojpuri
"I gained a lot of knowledge from my peers. Being a part of this community is incredible."
Sudhanshu Kumar, HWROB, Hindi
जेंडर विषयी मतभेद आहेत आणि ते बदलायला हवेत आणि त्याची सुरुवात आपण स्वतः पासून करावी.
Participant, HWROB, Marathi
I have moved from a space of superficial knowledge about gender to deeper meanings, identities and subjectivities. Setting the theory and then moving on to complicated subjects has set the stage for Self-Enquiry and Inner work. Unlearn to Unite.
Participant, HWROB, English
FAQ
No, This workshop comes to you at no cost. The workshop costs are absorbed through the grant by Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies.
Yes, In the year 2023-24, we conducted in English, and Hindi in June 2023 and currently we are accepting registrations for Marathi and Bhojpuri. You can find the specific dates for this event in the Schedule section. If you need in-person interactive sessions in other regional languages for your team, please contact us at nisha@thegenderlab.org, and we will gladly consider the possibility if it is within our capabilities.
You must complete the registration form and carefully read all the information provided on the website and in the form.
After completing the How We Raise Our Boys Workshop, you would be required to do post-workshop activities, the intention being to translate your learnings to your community through some action. Action can include any creative activity (For ex: a one-hour workshop with adolescent children and teachers at school) within your community and with people – you work with.
Definitely! You can let them know about these workshops by sharing the website link and registration form with them, or share their name, contact details, email, and preferred language in the given registration form.
The 4-day workshop is designed in a way where school educators get to ask questions, share, and explore perspectives; we encourage you to be an active participant throughout the workshop.
For this workshop, there is no one-day sign-up option. Participants are required to attend all 4 days of the workshop because the learning experiences are interconnected and informed by one another.
We can give you an acknowledgment letter after you have completed the following:
- Four days of the workshop.
- Post-workshop action component.
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