Community Education Groups

Community Education Groups
The Womens Centre's initial work with groups is concerned with creating a safe and trusting environment. The environment that is created ensures that the participants feel safe and equal at all times. This facilitates learning, confidence building and the building of self-esteem. This in turn results in increased personal and social awareness.

- "It is important that the facilitators and outreach workers are women who the groups
can identify with. We engage with the women from the beginning and
so relationships and equality is built from the start."

Women are facilitated to have their voices heard and have a direct say in the development of the training. While some of the work is creative, we realise that some of it is what happens during the process that counts rather than the end result of a creative session. We use creative methods as a vehicle to explore personal and social issues, as well as to build equal and trustful relationships. This way of working with groups helps overcome such barriers to participation as shyness, lack of confidence and lack of self-esteem.