Hello everyone,
I would like to invite you to a seminar with Uki Maroshek-Klarman, the founder of Betzavta Democracy Education. The seminar will take place from Sunday 10 November to Wednesday 13 November in Bad Bevensen. The cost is 430 euros and covers two full and two half days of the seminar, including accommodation and full board.
What is Betzavta?
Betzavta is an innovative approach to democracy education that transfers radical theories of democracy to any educational context - regardless of the content. This makes Betzavta applicable in almost all teaching and learning situations - be it in daycare centres, schools, universities, extracurricular education or even in company contexts.
The core of this approach is the unconditional recognition of the equal right to freedom for all people - in practical implementation, this results in numerous conflicts that are already present in the room and are revealed through the workshop - the ability to enter into conflicts, to endure them courageously and to resolve them is strengthened accordingly.
The focus on equality, freedom and solidarity sets Betzavta apart from many other educational formats. The teaching and learning approach is entirely experience-based: Various activities are carried out in the workshop that uncover conflicts. In a joint reflection, these conflicts are viewed as dilemmas, which creates a new understanding of supposedly unsolvable situations.
Why take part?
This special opportunity not only offers the chance to familiarise yourself with the Betzavta approach, but also to immerse yourself in the depths of the method - under the guidance of Uki Maroshek-Klarman herself, the director of the Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace in Jerusalem, who developed Betzavta in the 1980s and continues to expand it. She has received numerous international awards for her work, most recently an honorary doctorate in the USA. In Israel itself, over 360,000 people have taken part in the Adam Institute’s seminars, 3,900 multipliers have been trained and 900 Jewish-Arab prayer groups have been set up.
I personally use Betzavta intensively in my university teaching and can hardly imagine my (specialised) teaching without this approach.
Best regards
André