Working with boys in Austria

It all started for poika in 1997 ...

Working with Boys in Austria

Work with refugees

poika DOES...

Working with children and teenagers of ALL genders from 6 years up

TOPICS of poika

Zwischen Kooperation

und Konkurrenz

Workshops und counselling for multiplicators and institutions working with children and teenagers (also with special needs)

• Critical masculinity and feminism
• Gender-sensitive teaching and mediation work
• Girls/Boys/TIN Work
• Cross work
• Gender and violence
• Conscious communication
• Use of creative and artistic methods
• Parent work - work with fathers
• ...

Many cooperations und networks, national and international

Conferences and lectures

Publications

Berufsorientierung

und

Lebensplanung

Interdisciplinarily projects with youth work, universities und colleges

(Birth) Preperations and counselling for fathers (parents)

Male self-confidence, self-esteem and self-respect, which is not based on devaluation by others, is strengthened

https://www.schule.at/ibobb

http://www.boysday.at/

http://bit.ly/1FPyyct

Boys receive support in planning their own realistic goals in life

Non-violent conflict resolution and communication strategies are developed and implemented

SPACES FOR BOYs And MEN

Aims and tasks of gender-sensitive work with boys

Educational support in the development of boys and young men into emotionally lively, social and self-responsible personalities

Boys experience support when trying out and learning new behaviors with the purpose of expanding masculinity

Men's Counseling Center all over Austria

with Youth Work from 12 years up

Men's health centres in Wien + Salzburg

Eindrücke / Impressions

self reflection

The trainers of poika do

more than 300 workshops per year and thus reach 4000 young people and are constantly learning something new.

Nonformal Youth Work (low-treshold und inter-company apprenticeship) with gendersensitive focus

Gender equality and forms of gender-democratic interaction and coexistence are negotiated constructively

Boys and boy workers deal with their individual understanding of being a boy and a man,

Gendersensitive work in schools from 6 years up

The people of

Various men initiatives

Buben*arbeit Seit 1999

Recognize and feel your own limits

intersectional thinking

www.poika.at

poika thinks outside the box and dedicates itself to a wide range of topics, because that is the world...

Working with Boys since 1999

Bernhard Wögerer, Daniel Billinger, Dominik Denkmayr, Hanni Maltan, Iris Hanebeck, Judith Zimmermann, Maja Pekez, Milano Leeb, Naomi Lobnig, Nils Rave, Philipp Leeb, Stefan Anwander, Wolfgang Spät

poika was founded in 2008.

Teresa Schweiger had been in charge from 2012-23 and Philipp Leeb since 2023 the poika office (office community with Frauenhetz)

Wie schaut so ein poika-Workshop eigentlich aus?

think AND ACT pro-feminist

Reflect on your own attitude

poika works with Triple Advocacy and is in constant dialogue with

girls and women facilities

poika always has trainees and almost all poikaistas* started out this way

Verein EfEU

Dr. Paul Scheibelhofer

THE BEginning

EinzelAkteure

Väterarbeit

And So on...

SchülerInnenschule im WUK

Martin Henschl

Männergesundheitszentrum

Männerberatung

im St. Josef

Virtuelle PH

Sozialministerium

FH Campus Wien

Verein Sprungbrett für Mädchen

Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

ARbeit und BERUF UND Leben USW.

AMS

Universität Passau

Fortbildungen

abz*austria

Topics in the work with boys

Pädagogische Hochschulen

Men Engage

Bildungs- und Beratungsprojekte WUK

Kooperationen

Institut für Freizeitpädagogik

in der Arbeit mit

Kindern und Jugendlichen

In der Arbeit mit Erwachsenen

Belvedere - Kultur & Gut

• male identities and their scope
• realities of girls and women - gender dialogue
• dominance and violent behavior
• physicality
• sexuality
• health
• career and life planning
• homo/trans/interphobia and transitional paths
• fatherhood, becoming a father

Stadt Wien

Väterarbeit

Experimentalbubenarbeit

Mobbing

Mädchen*arbeit

Technische Universität Wien

Antifeminismus

Arbeitskreise

Queer

Vernetzung von Buben/Männerarbeit in Ö

Autonome Frauenhäuser

Verein Samara

Verein Selbstlaut

Intersektionalität

Gewaltprävention

International

PROSA

Männerberatungsstellen

Youth in Action - Austauschprogramme

Män för Jämställdhet (Men for Gender Equality)

Men Engage

Centar E8

Dissens

Jungenarbeit Hamburg

Neue Wege für Jungs

Universität Tirana + Kulturkontakt Austria

Volkshilfe + CDC-TFF

Asocijajica XY

...

Tandem-Projekt "Interkulturelle Genderkompetenz"

Männergesundheitszentrum