Calling In - Workshop

Join Andrej from Kokoro for an intimate workshop (max. 8 participants) exploring how we can bring people back together in an increasingly polarised world.
Together, we will look at how dialogue, empathy and courage help us to stay in conversation, especially when we disagree.
At the heart of this work are belonging and psychological safety. When people feel they belong, they are more willing to take responsibility. When safety is present, difficult conversations become possible without humiliation or exclusion.
Through reflection and hands-on practice, you’ll develop concrete behaviours and actions that can become habits, helping to bridge differences, address harm and move forward - without breaking connection.

We need to strengthen our skills for talking beyond our bubbles. We need to rebuild trust in our workplaces, communities and institutions. We want to be trusted … but does our behaviour inspire trust?
The future of collaboration depends on our ability to hold space and tension. It means being able to name what is true, repair what is strained, and hold each other accountable without hurting each other.
It is all about staying connected when there is friction.
Real change, whether in a team, an organisation, or a movement, does not happen by convincing the already convinced. It happens when we learn how to bring people in. Especially those we assume are too different, too resistant, or too hard to reach.
And like any real change, each of us is stepping into unfamiliar territory. As a species that depends so deeply on one another, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind.
We have become highly skilled at self-help, yet under-skilled at group help. When the room gets tense, we either protect ourselves or perform politeness. At work, that can look like avoiding feedback, difficult decisions, or conflict. In everyday life, it can look like silence, emotional distance, and the topics we do not touch.

Since the earliest days of human communities, people have gathered around a shared meal. This simple form of proximity creates something powerful: trust, conversation and a sense of belonging.

Eating together with people we do not know can burst the bubbles we are in and widen our horizons…
We have a private setting in a light-filled studio in Vienna’s 6th district, where we can slow down, listen, stay in conversation and eat together.

🥙 Menu for the day:

• Light Turkish breakfast including olives, sheep cheese, tomatoes & small cucumber and spreads.
• Lunch - Vegan Ghormeh Sabzi, a slow-cooked Persian herb stew with beans and dried lime, served with Tahdig, scorched Basmati rice.
• Coffee Break after lunch with a white chocolate sticky cake and saffron-rosewater cream.
  

This workshop is for people who want to stay in conversation across difference in their work, their communities, and their lives.
Yes, it’s for anyone who is a professional, leads others, grows communities, a family member who is trying to make sense, culture builders or someone who mediates conflict and wants to create an environment where honesty and connection happen.
We have a solidarity seat: Because conversations like this should include a diversity of voices, every workshop includes one solidarity seat for someone who cannot currently afford the full fee. Your participation helps make that possible.
If you would benefit from a solidarity seat, please register and send a short note on how this will support you in your current situation.
The day’s fee includes the workshop facilitation, tools, food, and the solidarity fund: €229

📆 Thursday, 28th May 2026
⏰ 09:00–17:00 (Arrival and breakfast from 09:00)
📍Studio Space, Mollardgasse 2/14, 1060 Vienna
🪑: 8 seats (limited)
🗣️: English and German
€:229,-

A heartfelt thank you to Emma Stenström and Loretta J. Ross. Their work on bursting bubbles and calling people in has been a deep inspiration in creating this workshop.

Info: The day starts slowly, on purpose. Come as you are, take something from the light breakfast including coffee/tea, olives, sheep chees tomatoes & small Turkish cucumbers. This is the way we introduce ourselves and we take our conversations from here.

Info: Before we go further, we look at what it actually means and what it feels like from the inside. When have you felt called out? When have you felt called in? These two experiences leave very different marks on us. Surfacing them together helps us understand what we are actually working with.

Info: Belonging is what makes people willing to show up. When people feel they belong, they are more likely to hold each other accountable. When safety is present, difficult conversations stop being something to avoid. We map the signals and behaviours that pull people in, and the ones that quietly push them out.

Info: Time for a coffee

Info: We use a method called Bubble Hopping to step deliberately into perspectives that are not our own. What matters from there? What risks exist? What might that perspective not see? Then we come back. The point is not to abandon your own position, it is to understand that accountability conversations always happen across worlds.

Info: Lunch - Vegan Ghormeh Sabzi slow-cooked Persian herb stew with beans and dried lime, served with Tahdig, scorched Basmati rice.

Info: This is where we stop talking about it and start doing it. We practice practical moves: leading with care instead of accusation, naming impact without humiliation, looking for a way forward rather than trying to win. The scenarios are close enough to real life to feel uncomfortable in exactly the right way.

Info: Individual skills matter. But culture is what happens when no one is looking. Together we map the behaviours that make calling in a real habit … and the ones that quietly undermine it. What does it take for people to actually want to hold each other accountable?

Info: Afternoon coffee or tea. Goes with a white chocolate sticky cake served with saffron-rosewater cream.

Info: Some situations don't fit a simple model. What happens when there is a real power imbalance? When does someone cause harm repeatedly? When is calling out the right move? We look at how to hold space for repair without pretending everything is easy to fix.

Info: We close the same way we opened- together, and without rushing. Space to name what stayed with you, what is still buzzing, and what you want to take with you and move.

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Mollardgasse 2/14, 2 Mollardgasse, Wien, Austria

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