Here you can read about Nargis’ experience of the third week of the Philia Workshops that are taking place at the American University of Afghanistan: As our usual routine, we first had our weekly reflection time. During this time we filled in the progress report. We looked over the goals we had during the week …
The second Women’s Empowerment Workshop took place at the American University of Afghanistan. Nargis blogged for Philia about her experience: This time the first 30 minutes of the Philia Session were devoted towards reflection time and to the practice of peer coaching. First, we had quiet time for ourselves in order to reflect on the …
Nargis is partaking in the four weeks Philia Women’s Empowerment Course. Learn more about her experience in her blog posts: The first Philia Session took place at the AUAF and about 20 students joined. At first, we were told the Fairy Tale of “Philia the Warrior Princess”! Through this tale, different traits of characters and …
Nargis is new in Kabul. She originally is from Kandahar a region located in the west of Afghanistan. Already when Nargis still lived at home she was involved in women’s empowerment initiatives such as Alliance for International Women’s Rights (AIWR) and Pax Populi. Besides pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in the field of political science at …
The Philia Project has hit it off in Kabul, Afghanistan. Together with a group of like-minded women, who are aspiring entrepreneurs, Nicole formed a Women’s Empowerment Group and started teaching the foundations of the Philia Peer Coaching Methods. Amongst other ideas, the participating women are in the process of creating a greenhouse, a company to …
A few weeks back, we finally launched our first Women’s Empowerment Class in Kano, Nigeria. Or, as we like to put it, Philia was born. We have been working on the concept and contents of the course for many months, but we hadn’t actually taught the method to anybody yet. As fate would have it, …