Creating sustainable collaborations through ecosystemic design thinking and collective care
Sympoiesis means 'making with'.
It is a word proper to complex, dynamic, responsive, situated, historical systems.
It is a word for worlding-with, in company.
—Donna Haraway
WHAT WE DO
Sympoiesis provides holistic educational trainings, workshops, mentoring and consultancy for building sustainable, creative collaborations, groups and organisations according to ecosystemic design thinking.
Our approach involves creating the cultures of care necessary for supporting long-term individual and collective work, preventing burnout and deepening impacts.
We engage mind, emotions, body and imagination through social ecology, reflective and creative practices, storytelling and interactive paedagogies.
Sympoiesis is a space for connecting, rethinking past and present, and opening up sustainable pathways to alternative futures.
WHO WE ARE
Anastasia Kafiris is an experienced professional in management for non-profit organizations. During her 10+ years of experience in this area she has held the positions of Director of Programs & Fundraising for ActionAid Hellas (an international organization working for a world free from poverty and injustice, with local programs focusing on gender, education, youth, and community development), Director General of ethelon (the only non-profit organization in Greece dedicated to training, motivating, and connecting volunteers and organizations, as well as promoting a culture of volunteering) and Director General of the Hellenic Children’s Museum (an educational and cultural organization). Prior to this, she had a 15-year career in communications and public relations with a special interest in CSR. She has held numerous senior management positions in leading marketing-communication agencies and has extensive experience in developing strategic communication programs for national and global corporations. Anastasia holds a BA in Sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana and an MA in Public Communication from American University, Washington D.C.
Krini Kafiris is an an educator, activist and researcher in sustainable organising, gender issues and social ecology. She focuses on reflective and creative practices in envisioning and working for post-capitalist futures, including storytelling and sound. She is a member of the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology and co-founder, with Eve Olney, of Radical Institute, a transnational programme for sustainable organising, collaborating and mentoring in the arts.
She has developed and conducted workshops and trainings
on these issues as well as gender equity, in several European countries for a wide range of participants, including activists, artists, media professionals, civil servants, UNDP-ACT and NGO staff. She has also participated in autonomous feminist groups, the social solidarity economy, and taught media/communication at British, Cypriot and Greek universities. She trained in sustainable organising at Ulex Project, community organising with the European Community Organizing Network and creative writing at Mikro Polytexneio. She holds a Certificate in Autoethnography: A Qualitative Research Method from Bradley University and a DPhil in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Sussex.
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