What is M.A.P. and who is it for?
M.A.P. – Migration, Awareness, (Em-)Power is a free, certified 8-day training programme for FLINTA* with migration and/or refugee backgrounds who work in the fields of migration, forced displacement, counselling, trauma, and empowerment, and who support, accompany, counsel, or empower other FLINTA* affected by racism.
Working in these fields often involves a high level of emotional strain. Supporting people who have experienced violence, forced displacement, exclusion, or other forms of trauma means navigating the complex tension between the risk of (re-)traumatisation for those receiving support and secondary traumatisation for professionals and multipliers themselves. In addition, many people affected by multiple forms of discrimination work within institutions that often lack diversity, making spaces for exchange, mutual support, and the strengthening of collective resources especially important.
With M.A.P., we create a safer space where FLINTA* with migration and refugee biographies can learn together, share experiences, and reflect on their own professional practice. The training programme combines professional and methodological input with empowerment, self-care, and the development of collective resources. From an intersectional, decolonial, and embodied perspective, participants engage with trauma-informed support, healing processes, and practices of solidarity.
The programme aims to strengthen participants in their work, enhance their long-term capacity to act, and build a sustainable support network that extends beyond the training itself.
Programme Structure
The training is conducted in German and consists of two three-day blocks and two additional workshop days.
BLOCK I
Thursday, 10 September 2026 – Saturday, 12 September 2026
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
This first block creates space for participants to exchange experiences, discuss challenges, and identify resources in their work with migrant and/or refugee FLINTA*. Together, we explore anti-discriminatory and trauma-informed practices, reflect on our own professional roles and attitudes, and learn practical methods for providing sensitive and supportive guidance to clients. Particular attention is given both to protecting those receiving support and to preventing (re-)traumatisation.
Topics
- Awareness: anti-discriminatory and trauma-informed practice
- Complementary methods in psychosocial counselling
- Critical reflection on power and positionality
- Preventing (re-)traumatisation among clients
- Methods from art therapy and psychodrama
Trainers
- Thuli Wolf (she/her)
- Noura Hafez (no pronouns)
- Eliza-Maïmouna Sarr (no pronouns/she)
Deepening Workshop
Sunday, 13 September 2026
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
WHERE MOVEMENT DREAMS
with Rafia Shahnaz (they/them)
This workshop offers an introduction to Fluentbody, a somatic and expressive movement practice developed by dancer and choreographer Florencia Lamarca. Rooted in somatics, emotional embodiment, and voice work, Fluentbody invites participants to move through physical, emotional, and imaginative dimensions, allowing the body to express itself in its own rhythm, pace, and language.
The workshop focuses on creating a space that is both safe and expansive, enabling participants to listen inward, connect with bodily sensations, and translate inner experiences into embodied expression. Together, we explore how movement can become a tool for self-regulation, release, presence, and collective resonance.
Fluentbody supports the body in softening when life becomes challenging, inviting participants to discover spaciousness amidst intensity and allowing movement to emerge where tension once existed.
Teil 2 enthält:
- Block II
- Grounded Voice Workshop
- alle Trainer*innen-Biografien (professionell übersetzt).
teil zwei bitte auch übersetzen
BLOCK II
Thursday, 8 October 2026 – Saturday, 10 October 2026
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
This block shifts the focus to the participants themselves and the impact their work has on their own well-being. Within a protected and supportive space, we reflect on the emotional challenges that can arise from accompanying people with experiences of forced displacement, violence, and discrimination. Together, we explore strategies for preventing secondary traumatisation.
Drawing on decolonial, embodied, and somatic approaches to healing, self-care, and empowerment, participants strengthen both their individual and collective resources. The aim is to foster resilience, develop sustainable self-care practices, and maintain the capacity to continue this important work over the long term.
Topics
- Self-care and self-protection
- Empowerment and strengthening personal resources
- Navigating emotional strain in counselling, activism, and care work
- Prevention of secondary traumatisation
- Trauma-informed bodywork and somatic and decolonial perspectives on healing
Trainers
- Christine-Joahn Meier (she/her)
- Senja Brütting (senja/no pronouns)
- Amal Abbass (she/her)
- Trang/Taya Nguyen (she/-)
Deepening Workshop
Saturday, 24 October 2026
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
GROUNDED VOICE
with Leila Bostic (she/her)
Grounded Voice is a workshop that gently guides you out of your head and back into your body. Through mindful breathing, body awareness, and vocal exercises, you will playfully explore your natural voice and the resonance of your body in ways that are relaxing, liberating, energising, and grounding.
Together, we will use our voices in a non-judgemental space, free from performance pressure or ideas of “right” and “wrong.” The shared vibration that emerges can foster a profound sense of connection—feeling supported, held, and carried by the group.
Our Trainers
Thuli Wolf (she/her)
Thuli Wolf is a physician, art therapist, and artist based in Berlin. She works with individuals, groups, and organisations, creating creative healing spaces for People of Color and queer communities to support healthier, more creative lives.
Her work focuses on collective healing as a response to the health impacts of discrimination, hatred, and violence.
Noura Hafez (no pronouns)
Noura Hafez designs and facilitates spaces dedicated to anti-discrimination, empowerment, and critical approaches to power in educational work.
Their practice combines political analysis, intersectional perspectives, and experiential methods, particularly from psychodrama and sociodrama. At the heart of their work is the question of how social power structures, group dynamics, and contemporary political discourses can be addressed in practical ways, with a focus on social justice, participation, and collective transformation.
Eliza-Maïmouna Sarr (no pronouns/she)
Eliza-Maïmouna Sarr works in education, process facilitation, and counselling on anti-discrimination and empowerment. Their work is grounded in intersectional and power-critical perspectives and focuses on supporting institutions, individuals, and communities, particularly through community-oriented approaches.
Sarr is a licensed practitioner of psychotherapy (Heilpraktiker for psychotherapy), a systemic therapist, stress prevention specialist, and supervisor.
Rafia Shahnaz (they/them)
Rafia is a queer migrant Person of Color from Pakistan whose journey across borders and systems profoundly shapes the way they hold space for others.
Drawing on lived experiences of displacement and resilience, they weave together Compassionate Inquiry, art therapy, somatic and embodiment practices, psychedelic integration, and Gestalt therapy.
Their work invites people to remember, soften, and engage in processes of collective healing.
Christine-Joahn Meier (she/her)
Christine-Joahn Meier is a systemic counsellor, supervisor, coach, and trainer who creates spaces for holistic processes of growth and transformation.
Working from an intersectionality-informed and power-critical perspective, she supports individuals, groups, teams, and organisations. Empowerment programmes for (post-)migrant communities are at the heart of her practice.
Amal Abbass (she/her / no pronouns)
Amal Abbass is an author, recipient of the Berlin Women’s Award 2023, a certified sandplay therapist, founder of Kindezi.de, and Programme Director at tubman.network e.V.
She works at the intersection of trauma, anti-discrimination, empowerment, and community care, developing educational and support programmes for children, families, and communities of African and Afro-diasporic heritage.
Her work combines culturally responsive therapy, decolonial education, and community organising to strengthen healing, self-care, belonging, and collective agency. She advocates for anti-discriminatory and intersectional approaches in education, psychosocial work, and early childhood development.
Senja Brütting (senja/no pronouns)
Senja is a space holder for empowerment and a dancer and movement performer in various performance collectives exploring themes of anger, pleasure, diaspora, and visibility.
Their work brings together movement, embodiment, and socio-political practice and is informed by many years of experience in community organising, political education, non-profit work, and residential child and youth care.
Trang / Taya Nguyen (she/-)
Taya is a mind-body coach, meditation and breathwork teacher, and facilitator of somatic trauma and attachment work.
She accompanies people on their personal and spiritual development journeys by integrating embodied spirituality, emotional regulation and expression, self-compassion, and healing from developmental and attachment trauma with insights from diverse spiritual traditions and body-based approaches.
Her work views healing as inseparable from individual experience, social power structures, and systemic as well as transgenerational trauma.
Leila Bostic (she/her)
Leila Bostic is a state-certified speech and language therapist, singer, and systemic therapist with a holistic approach to voice, breath, and body.
She supports people in gaining clarity about their needs and equips them with practical tools to strengthen agency, authentic expression, and overall quality of life.
Drawing on her own journey of vocal development, she knows how discovering one’s authentic voice can deepen self-confidence and presence. This experience shapes her trauma-informed, resource-oriented approach to voice work.
Gefördert aus Mitteln der Senatsverwaltung für Arbeit, Soziales, Gleichstellung, Integration, Vielfalt und Antidiskriminierung im Rahmen des Partizipations- und Integrationsprogramms.
