Global Dignity: Overview for 2020 and 2021

Despite the difficult years behind us and still ongoing pandemic, global dignity FInland team has been offering small and sizable events which raise topics of belonging, resilience, overcoming racism and life situations.

We have listed some events during 2020-2021 which were delivered by volunteers, our partnership with Business college Helsinki, MOK HNMKY for cooperation on “Taking a stand” antiracism facilitation training. We also thank all our previous speakers at Talk the Talk competition and speakers which were brave enough to deliver their first story.

None of these events would happen without Global Dignity volunteers from near and far, also in the form of speaker coaches.

• We see the big impact in training new time speakers to share their story in 6 minutes. 

Speakers do get to write their story, practice, deliver and have an opportunity to inspire and impact someone who is like them or someone who has never had heard about their experience be it trauma, exclusion, racism, other mental health issues or life and death situations.

• We see the big impact in engaging with artists to inspire and emotionally connect to the audience.

• We see the big impact in engaging peer-to-peer style speakers to make an inspiration that sticks and can be put to action #seeingisbelieving

• We see the big impact in community building among speakers and volunteers which happens when they deliver a real event to real audience even if in hybrid.

In times of post #BLM and #METOO, debate of international students, spouses and immigrants struggling to get a job in Finland, we also increased the topics of discussion on this and bring out the topics of origins, inclusion, antiracism training.

1. We co-organized the Taking A Stand workshop with MOK on October 14, 2020. It was an online Zoom workshop where we offer a safe space to everyone attending the possibility of having a deep conversation on racism and how to fight it. The event was conducted in English. There were about 15 people attending the event.