Collective Care Berlin

Collective Care Berlin welcomes you to the 2026 monthly workshop series Embodying Resistance: Community Practices for Collective Care.

Our work is rooted in a critical awareness of our positionality within Europe and in relation to global systems of power, including whiteness, colonial legacies, and uneven access to safety, rest, and care. We approach collective care not as a neutral or apolitical practice, but as something shaped by history, responsibility, and accountability.

We create spaces where bodies, emotions, and collective histories can be witnessed—spaces that actively resist the isolation, burnout, and fragmentation produced by capitalism, racism, patriarchy, borders, and state violence. Across the world, from Syria and the ongoing attacks on Rojava, to the genocide in Gaza and across Palestine, to occupations, precarity, and carceral and deportation regimes such as ICE in the United States, violence is continuous and normalized. In this context, grief is never only personal. It is collective and political.

Embodying Resistance offers a consistent monthly space to slow down, reconnect, and regenerate together. Drawing from popular education, feminist, abolitionist, and decolonial practices, these gatherings center lived experience, embodied knowledge, and shared reflection as vital sources of political understanding and collective action. Through gentle embodiment, dialogical practices, and communal witnessing, we explore how personal and collective experiences are shaped by wider structures of power—and how they can also become sites of resistance.

Coming together to feel, rest, grieve, reflect, imagine, and organize is not a luxury in times of ongoing genocide and systemic violence. It is a necessary practice for sustaining long-term struggle. Caring for our nervous systems and relational fields allows us to remain present, connected, and accountable—without hardening, dissociating, or burning out.

This series invites us to practice care not as retreat, but as infrastructure for resistance: a way to strengthen collective capacity, deepen solidarity, and nurture more interconnected, just, and liberated futures.

Save the Dates!
All sessions are happening in-person, in Berlin Neukölln.
Precise time and location will be announced in our IG page and on the telegram group. If you want to register write to: collectivecare.berlin@proton.me

Collective Care Berlin stands in deep solidarity with our allies in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Yemen, who face ongoing violence, colonization, and systemic oppression. We acknowledge that these struggles are interconnected with the global legacies of colonialism and exploitation, impacting communities worldwide.

As a collective of activists, we are committed to holding space within our social movements for regenerative activism—activism that not only resists injustice but also heals and renews. This approach arose from two years of practice-based research with CitizensLab e.V., where we are building a Community of Practice centered around Regenerative Cultures. In this process, we emphasize addressing power dynamics, decolonizing our ways of being, and building cultures of care, kinship, and resilience.

As an organizing team, we recognize that we carry significant privileges—white privilege, male privilege, class privilege, among others. We come from migrant backgrounds in Egypt, Poland, Italy, and the United States, and we acknowledge the importance of reflecting on how these privileges and backgrounds shape our perspectives and positions in the global struggle for justice. We commit to a process of unlearning oppressive systems and hold ourselves accountable as we engage in solidarity with those impacted by colonization, occupation, and systemic violence.

We believe that true solidarity requires grounding ourselves in the wisdom of the body, embracing practices that sustain our collective healing, and nurturing our capacity to act. Regenerative activism asks us to bring our whole selves into this work, honoring the interconnectedness of our bodies, minds, and communities as we fight for justice. This means creating spaces where we not only resist and challenge oppression but also cultivate care, rest, and renewal—recognizing that sustainable change requires a strong and supported community.

In solidarity, we commit to sharing these regenerative practices with the wider activist community in Berlin and beyond. We seek to foster an activism that is not only reactive but also regenerative—an activism that heals wounds, reimagines our world, and builds cultures of belonging.

Standing together, we call for an end to systemic oppression and colonization everywhere. We commit to amplifying the voices of those most impacted, deconstructing the systems that perpetuate harm, and building a future rooted in care, justice, and collective liberation.

Solidarity is more than a stance—it is an embodied practice, a living commitment to care for ourselves and each other as we work towards a world where all can thrive.

Collective Care Berlin welcomes you to a series of regenerative gatherings “Embodying Resistance: Community Practices for Collective Care”. We aim to hold a space to tend to our bodies, give space to recognize our emotions, and build new ways of being together.

We stand in deep solidarity with our allies in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Yemen, who face ongoing violence, colonization, and systemic oppression, and recognize the interconnectedness of anti-colonial, anti-racist, feminist struggles. No one is free until we are all free.

Our gatherings series works towards giving ourselves and each other the space to come as we are and to release and regenerate as much as we can in these difficult times.

Methods will include practicing a grieving ritual, yoga and movement, storytelling, as well as writing and drawing. We hope that through such practices we can succeed in becoming a more densely interconnected and reenergized movement.