Trainings for Professionals
In the context of your work with young people, situations may arise in which young people make racist, discriminatory, anti-democratic or conspiratorial statements and actions.
We have an experienced team at your side to provide you with professional advice, training and support.
Our offer
We see the individual, develop trust and build relationships.
We ask about their own interests and help them to formulate life goals.
We deal with their questions and conflicts.
We promote a positive self-image and value decision-making and social participation.
We provide support during lengthy change processes.
We help to reduce risks and avoid criminal offenses.
Information
Information events on right-wing extremism and current developments in Hesse (e.g. right-wing actors, dynamics, demonstrations, etc.)
The “Rote Linie” offers information and background knowledge on current developments and manifestations of the extreme right in the form of training courses, workshops and lectures.
Primary materials are used to impart knowledge about various right-wing extremist ideological families (e.g. neo-Nazism, Völkische, New Right), current groups and activities. Current topics and ways of addressing people are analyzed and entry and exit processes are discussed with a look at biographies. The events can therefore focus on Current developments in right-wing extremism, living environment of right-wing extremism or forms of address and approachability in right-wing extremism.
Das Angebot richtet sich an Fachkräfte an Schulen, in der Jugendhilfe oder der Erwachsenenbildung, Fachkräfte in Verwaltung, Ehrenamtliche und weitere Interessierte.
For whom?
Specialists // Teachers //
Social workers
Interested?
Workshops and training courses
Visibility of (everyday) racism in society and schools
Schools are important for overcoming prejudice and reducing racism, anti-Semitism, antiziganism and violence in our society. Teachers are of great importance, as socio-political events such as the death of George Floyd (2020) have significantly increased sensitivity to racism in our society and in our schools.
These developments pose a major challenge for teachers in schools. But what is racism and what does racism have to do with us as a society and with myself? How do I recognize racism? How does racism manifest itself in everyday school life and how can I take action against it?
Together, we would like to examine the history of racism, its persistence and its effects on an individual, institutional and structural level.
This training course invites participants to develop a racism-critical and discrimination-sensitive capacity for action and attitude, as well as to reflect on their own imprints and ways of thinking and behaving, to gain knowledge about the history and impact of racism, to adopt new perspectives and to work together on strategies for a culture of encounter and for reducing racism in everyday (school) life.
For whom?
Specialists // Teachers //
Social workers
Interested?
Dealing with right-wing youths
In their class or group, young people express anti-Semitic, derogatory, right-wing extremist statements, slogans or racist positions. How can you position yourself as a professional in this situation and at the same time facilitate communication in order to counteract discrimination and inhumane content and open up opportunities for everyone involved?
In this action competence workshop, we discuss practical examples, develop options for action with actors, those affected and other stakeholders, try out methods of conducting discussions and develop sustainable prevention and intervention strategies. In joint discussions and practical reports, we discuss and consider how contacts and relationships can be established, impulses can be set and motivation for change can be achieved in the other person.
For whom?
Specialists // Teachers //
Social workers // Managers
Interested?
Dealing with Reich ideologues
The Reich ideology and self-administration scene has grown considerably in recent years. After an overview of the multi-layered so-called Reichsbürger and self-administration scene, challenging situations are examined. What strategies can be used to deal with them so that their everyday lives, work and procedures are not unduly burdened or hindered?
If you are interested in this topic, please do not hesitate to contact us.
For whom?
Specialists // Teachers //
Social workers
Interested?
Setting impulses for change with right-wing oriented young people (VIR)
Quite a few young people seek community, action, strength and recognition in right-wing extremist scenes and world views. Good arguments alone or moralizing usually do not help here. Further training courses based on the VIR concept teach methods to stimulate change in right-wing youths and young adults.
VIR is a qualification concept for people who have professional or voluntary contact with right-wing youths or young adults. “Right-wing oriented” in this sense refers to adolescents or young adults who participate in right-wing extremist cliques, organizations or parties and internalize right-wing extremist thought patterns without being active in a leading position in this scene. This applies in particular to adolescents and young adults who are approaching the far-right scene or who are involved as sympathizers or followers.
The aim of the VIR concept is to provide impulses in everyday situations that motivate people to change and support this process. The training deals with the basics of motivational interviewing, information on the legal framework, provides specialist knowledge about right-wing extremism and explains the causes of individual entry and exit processes.
The VIR training course is aimed at people who work professionally or on a voluntary basis with young people with an affinity to the right or at risk of right-wing extremism.
For whom?
School social workers // Child, youth and family welfare // Youth work institutions // Associations // Juvenile court assistance // Correctional facilities // Teachers
Interested?
Dealing with hate speech (online/offline)
Educational professionals, teachers and parents see how children and young people are confronted with hate online or make inhumane comments themselves.
However, discrimination in the form of hate speech not only happens in the digital space but also offline.
In this training course, we would like to address the topic of “hate speech” and think about strategies for tackling hate speech against people and groups of people in the digital space and also in classroom settings, for example. How does hate speech manifest itself in the context of social discrimination and specifically among young people? How do I recognize hate speech? What does this mean for the design of learning spaces? How can we protect those affected?
The training course encourages participants to try out new strategies for dealing with hate speech with the help of exercises, case studies and reflections.
For whom?
Specialists // Teachers //
Social workers
Interested?
Expertise in right-wing extremism, the New Right, turning and distancing processes or right-wing extremist worlds of experience
Right-wing extremism has many faces. Neo-Nazism, the national right or the so-called New Right are examples of this. In Hesse, too, there are corresponding groups and individuals, meeting places, events, exertions of influence and criminal offences. In order to be able to orientate oneself here and understand current developments, we offer an overview or in-depth insights into right-wing extremist scenes in training courses.
This also includes the diverse everyday cultural milieu in which adolescents and young adults can develop right-wing orientated lifestyles and identities and which promote their politicisation and attachment to right-wing extremist scenes.
politicisation and ties to right-wing extremist scenes: Via TikTok videos, music, clothing, images and narratives, sporting activities, concerts or demonstrations.
Processes of affinitisation to the extreme right can be understood in their social context and biographical structure. Affinisation is linked to needs and functions. These developments must be understood and taken into account in their entirety in order to develop appropriate forms of interaction and motives for change processes. Which factors are helpful for distancing processes, which phases are passed through and how can change succeed? We also address these questions as part of qualification and training programmes.
If you are interested in an event on these topics or individual aspects, please do not hesitate to contact us.
For whom?
Specialists // Teachers //
Social workers
Interested?
Discrimination-sensitive and racism-critical education and training
The increasing cultural and social diversity of groups of children places high demands on the skills of socio-educational professionals, including those working in day-care centres. It is not always easy to recognise and prevent racism and discrimination. In addition to dealing with racism and discrimination themselves, it is important to support children in the process of understanding the world and learning in a way that is sensitive to discrimination and racism and to open up spaces in which children do not have to experience marginalisation in the form of discrimination and racism.
The aim of this training course is to achieve diversity-sensitive and racism-critical action skills in early childhood as well as critical reflection on one’s own attitudes and role. This requires knowledge, self-reflection, appropriate language, behaviour and the right messages.
For whom?
Specialists // Teachers //
Social workers
Interested?
Please contact us if you need help or support. We handle all cases free of charge, confidentially and personally.
