Institut für Nachhaltigkeit in Bildung,
Arbeit und Kultur GbR
INBAK Berlin
Considerations on Negativ Body Image-Project
Controversal poster action for one week
„different or alien“ in TV
Definition and causes
Negativ Body Image as provisional working title describes the totality of bodily psychological
Appearcance, visible externally characteristics, as well as attitudes and behaviors
which are status- und socializationrelated.
The possible results are negativ self-attribution („I cannot do that“) or foreign attribution
„you do not belong to…“, stigmatization and exclusion, subsequently my arise
fall back, refusal, refuge in drugs, aggression and hatred against others and selfinjury.
Bodily and other characteristics which are not konform with the consumerist norm,
are seen as negativ.
The causes can be rewritten als follows:
- societiy
- pathological, illness
- wrong nutrition
- lack of individual promotion, resignation
- lack of energie for learning, motion and efforts
- systematic failure of family, school and vocational training
sex
handicaps
bodily
characteristics
trades/distinguishing
marks
dressing style,
fashion,
uniform
foreignness
colour
What are the
elements of
Body-Image
(identity)…
Religious
affiliation
education
social standing
profession
status
employment
violence
aggression
behaviour,
performance
dwelling conditions,
residencial quarters
and district
group membership
name,
given name
family, employment,
school
We suggest the following measures and activities:
Psychological counseling and it‘s decentral and central Organisation
European and national policies of Inclusion
Holistic culture of social and ecological sustainability in schools and
companies
Biografic reconstructions – self reflections of students
Learning and working within projects: examples
Junior (students) achievement companies, bookboXX, productionschool
Vocational oriented case studies (further education for trainers)
Theatre, Dance and Clowning
Thesis: Instead of „Negativ“ Body we should find out a valueless terminus
this is a result of discussions with teachers in Berlin
Psychologic
health
physical
health
Social
relationship
Lack services in
education
low self-esteem
poor nutrition
social anxitey
low concentration
self-confidence
smoking and drogs
lack of social
competences
low memory
services
brood and worry
sexual
health
low support
lack of
disciplin
depression
lack of movement
mobbing and
exclusion
School refusal
self-injury
cosmetic
interventions
negative
environment
bad tests and
certificates
treatment refusal
less endurance
1. Telling theCase history
8. Road map and actions
for the case storyteller
7. Learning / organizational
possibilities, realistical
assess
2. Asking: Completion the
picture of the case
history
Understanding
of case history
"Negative Body
Image"
6. Edit the core themes of the
case, develop essential
knowledge
3. Internal Circle:
Experiences, impressions
by Subscribers
4. Case Narrator:
Understanding
up to now
5. Tracing:
case history
understand
motives, interests,
relationships
Example: Organization of social work and counseling in one of the vocational
traning schools in Berlin:
Social worker:
(Full-time)
Support coping of actuel and futur critical
life stages, mediation, contacts to „Jugendamt“,
occupationa guidance
Contact teacher:
investigated prophylaxis: Counceling in cases of drug conflicts an abuse,
selection of alternative offered
2 Switching teachers: mediation of school conflicts
Consulting teachers: Advice in conflicts in crises, supporting in cases of problems
of learning and performance trouble
Developping a training centre towards a holistic cultur of sustainability
1. Management and mission statement
- to motivate and support the employees
- to recognize the challenges in the society and the own organisation
2. Policy and strategy: treatment principles
3. Employees: The four „r“: rules, respect, responsibilities, rituals
- further qualification of all
- participation of all members(employees
- innovative organisation of work process
- Integration of handicaped and underpreviledged teens
- preventions of any kind of diskrimination an xenophobia
4. Partnership, Stakeholder and ressources
5. Prozesses
- ecological and social aspects in all processes in work and output
- knowledge-management system in the school
6. Customer-related resuts
7. Employee-related results
8. Society-related results
Law
regulations
instructions
Global Compact
ISO
CSR
Science, techn.
ekonomic
feasibility
Training
education
Knowledge
habitudes
will and
readiness
Shaping, Doing
home – occupation
society
Green Management
control
sanctionens/
gratifications
Skills, competences
Culture
Behaviour
The general framework of Education for Sustainable Development ( ESD )
and Green Management in the conditions of framework
KONRAD KUTT INBAK BERLIN
What we can learn from a crooked nail
referring to negativ body?