3 May 2025 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bern
Innovationsdorf Bern
What are the joys and challenges of living together in times shaped by war, migration, and transformation? What makes it work? What makes it difficult? What are our differences, and what can we learn together?
This open gathering marks the beginning of Living Together, a series of facilitated discussions launching in 2025 that brings together local residents, migrants, and refugees to explore the challenges and possibilities of living and collaborating across cultures, backgrounds, and personal histories in Switzerland.
Join us for a 2-hour interactive discussion to exchange experiences, stories, and reflections on what it means to live together — especially when people with very different life worlds meet under one roof or within one community. This first gathering will focus on shared living situations between Swiss residents, Ukrainian refugees, and other communities in Switzerland — looking at the joys, challenges, and possibilities that emerge from these encounters.
We invite anyone with an interest in these questions — whether you’ve lived this experience personally, hosted someone, been a guest, or simply care about these themes. The space is open for listening, sharing, and reflecting together.
We’ll start with a few personal stories from guests who will share moments of challenge, growth, or connection from their own living-together experiences. We hope that these stories will spark a broader conversation, where everyone is welcome to contribute, listen, and engage.
We believe that coming together as a community and creating spaces for honest conversations is essential in the face of global challenges. By sharing all various viewpoints, we can interact to deepen understanding, find new connections, friendships, partnerships, unexpected solutions.
The first discussion is organized in collaboration with Innovationsdorf Bern, 7Generations, Kulturland, and Deep Democracy Institute Ukraine.
Facilitators
- Yuliya Filippovska, PhD and ProcessWork Dipl, IAPOP Board Member, Deep Democracy Alliance (DDA) member, coach and facilitator. Originally from Kyiv, she lives in Geneva.
- Magdalena Schatzmann, ProcessWork Dipl, IAPOP Member, DDA member, musician, coach, and facilitator. She lives in the Swiss mountains near Bern.
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