Women Heart Talks

Key learnings: 

Engage immigrant women to participate in the project. Engage already established groups of women in the Swedish society to join and share their heart issues with the immigrant women´s groups. Creating a holding space for the groups and the new formation of groups.

Key process elements: 

Using old and new stories that will open up new perspectives and empower the women to talk out of their hearts. Furthermore we will make drawing, take walks in the nature and listen to the wisdom of the body as ways of opening up and letting go.

Success looks like: 

More immigrant women working, studying and taking participating in culture and political life. New projects and structures in the city developed out of the women´s ideas.

Help needed: 

Ideas about what will make the project attractive to community, companies and the individual women.

Group posts

Grants recieved from the municipal Södertalje

Maria Bergbäck
Submitted by Maria Bergbäck
Citizen Empowerment
Södertälje, Sweden
Moderated by Maria Bergbäck
Project leader: 
Maria Bergbäck
Organization: 
EttSteg
Big idea: 

Storytelling as a pathway to empowering immigrant women in Sweden.

Forming groups of immigrant women and use the telling and listen of stories as a pathway for meeting the new country´s language and culture. After a while meet  Swedish women in diffent workplaces or organizations.