A practical one-day workshop by Eufonia

Practicing Decolonialityin Advocacy and Campaigning.

For people working across advocacy, campaigns, partnerships, funding and organisational change.

Notice and interrupt colonial patterns in your role and organisation. Practise more regenerative ways of relating and connect with others doing the same.

In person · English · 09:00–17:00 · Lunch included

A familiar situation

You want to work differently. But where do you begin?

When: Thursday, 18 February 2027 · 09:00–17:00
Where: Brussels · venue to be confirmed
Who: People in advocacy, campaigns, partnerships, funding, institutions, networks and organisational change
Included: Catered lunch and workshop materials

Why this workshop

Change starts with seeing the wider picture.

Colonial, patriarchal and racist patterns shape roles, relationships, funding and whose knowledge counts. They appear inside organisations and in how organisations relate to communities, funders, institutions, partners and one another. It can be hard to know what is possible from your position or where to begin. This workshop creates space to examine those dynamics collectively, practise different ways of working and identify concrete ways to act.

Indicative programme

A full day of grounding, practice and action.

The programme is designed around more-than-rational learning and decolonial practices. It combines collective analysis, embodied exercises, case work and reflection. The day runs from 09:00–17:00, including a one-hour catered lunch. Short breaks are built in and timings may move slightly with the group.

09:00
Arrive and ground
Settle into the room, connect with the group and establish how we want to work together.
Power and positionality
Define power, play with blocker cards and map your position inside the organisation and the organisation’s position inside the wider system.
Case work and role play
Drawing on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and Paulo Freire’s work on critical learning, role play helps us examine what is happening and practise different responses together.
12:30
Lunch as a method
Catered lunch is included. Food becomes a starting point for reflection on whose labour, knowledge and histories are made visible, and how food can carry culture, displacement, care and solidarity.
Leveraging your position for change
Explore how you can use your role, relationships and influence to promote organisational change, then revisit the morning’s situations in groups: how would you approach them now?
Experience and implementation
Share experience and examine a second case, looking at how decolonial approaches can be put into practice.
17:00
Close with an action plan and connections
Choose a practical next move, identify who can move with you and close the day together.

Facilitated by

Aarti, Dani and Mahmoud.

Aarti Narsee she/her

Decolonial feminist and former journalist bringing experience in civic space, policy and solidarity-building across Europe.

Full bio

Aarti Narsee is a decolonial feminist and former journalist from South Africa based in Brussels. She monitors, advocates and analyses civic space and policy-related developments across Europe. Aarti has worked on advocacy both in international civil society and within the Brussels EU bubble, particularly to forge international solidarity across civil society organisations and movements. She strives to bring a decolonial and antiracist lens to advocacy spaces and actions.

Dani she/her

Trainer and strategic facilitator designing transformative learning rooted in decoloniality and epistemic justice.

Full bio

Dani is an experienced trainer, strategic facilitator and movement-building specialist. As co-founder of Bascule and through her independent practice in Minka, she supports people engaged in decolonial, environmental and feminist work. Dani holds a Master in Environmental Justice and is an active member of the Decolonial Europe Collective. Shaped by 13 years of international experience in Latin America, New Zealand, Spain and Belgium, she continually questions and develops ways to practise decoloniality in life, relationships, work and learning. She designs transformative learning journeys that centre epistemic justice.

Mahmoud Assy he/him

JEDI consultant and trainer creating space for honest conversations about power and how groups work together.

Full bio

Mahmoud Assy is a JEDI consultant and trainer. He creates participatory spaces where people can speak honestly, work through disagreement and examine how power shapes the way they work together. His sessions move between reflection and practice, helping groups try different ways of relating, making decisions and acting. His approach is grounded in intersectional and decolonial practice, with trust, lived experience and the knowledge already in the room at its centre.

Registration

Book your place.

09:00–17:00 in Brussels. Your place includes the full workshop day, materials and a catered lunch.

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