Inspire	Community Arts	Global Education	Paulo Freire	Community Organizing

The Freire Institute has just announced a series of events for the next few months. If you prefer to have the Freire Institute visit you for a tailored programme, please contact us. For a full list of open events click here.

To enter into dialogue presupposes equality amongst participants.  Each must trust the others; there must be mutual respect and love (care and commitment).  Each one must question what he or she knows and realize that through dialogue existing thoughts will change and new knowledge will be created.

This is a way of gathering information in order to build up a picture (codify) around real situations and real people.  Decodification is a process whereby the people in a group begin to identify with aspects of the situation until they feel themselves to be in the situation and so able to reflect critically upon its various aspects, thus gathering understanding.  It is like a photographer bringing a picture into focus.

The concept of education in which “knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing”.

The Freire Institute is organizing a Paulo Freire Study Weekend in the autumn in the North West of England’s beautiful Lake District. We will have a couple of seminars, some discussion and debate with plenty of time for eating, drinking and enjoying the attractions of the surrounding countryside. Details of the dates and venue will be published when we have confirmed these but places will be limited. If you think you may be interested in joining us on the Paulo Freire Study Weekend please contact us.