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Agentura
GAIA project supported by the European Commission, Ministry of Labor
and Social affairs of the Czech Republic and the Heinrich Böll Foundation
Time Is Life - equality between the feminine and masculine principles
The project aims:
at contributing to the creation of a harmonious society balancing
the feminine and masculine principles and social roles. If we want
to understand the world, it is important to be aware of both principles
with all their physical and psychological specificities and to work
with them. Our starting point is the fact that contemporary society
is dominated by negative phenomena such as a devastated environment,
violence, drugs, war, corruption, unhappy individuals, unsatisfactory
interpersonal relations.
What is the reason for this situation? Is it the patriarchal
establishment, in which all the strategic decisions are made by
men? Why do not women have a greater influence on society? Does
the reason consist in their lack of self-assurance or in the lack
of time, which they invest in caring for the family without being
entitled to any reward nor having their work reflected in the GDP?
How come they do not realize they are being manipulated and such
manipulation is harming the society as a whole?
Experience teaches us that women consider themselves as part of
nature, do not see nature as something ”outside” of them. Therefore
it can be expected that theirs will be a more sensitive and caring
approach to managing not only nature, but also resources - human,
time and financial ones.
Our task is to raise public awareness of wonen’s values, such
as:
- a positive approach to life
- love, care, concern
- emphasis on ‘being’ instead of ‘having’,
- perceiving relations and connections within the world
- a sense of equality instead of hierarchical superiority
- understanding on the basis of empathy and intuition
- the giver of life knows how hard it is to give life and raise
it and how easy it is to kill
The author of the project is Marie Haisová, Agentura GAIA executive.
Participants: ATTAC France, PROYECTOS COMUNITARIOS Spain, Občanská
inspirace Prague, Mateřské centrum Poděbrady, Czech Republic, Deutscher
Gewerkschafts Bund Germany, Women in Europe for a Common Future
Netherlands, Academia Prague, AK Agentura Prague.
The project includes seminars, conferences
and practical exercises which can be sollicited at the following
contact: Agentura GAIA
tel.: 604 946516, e-mail: marie.haisova@seznam.cz
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