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Welcome

Preface from Tim are the opening words from Tim Rease, who gave this website to Monika as a gift for her 60th birthday.

Movement

When the “I” becomes a “We” is a reflection on personal and collective ownership in social movements.

Student Movement

• 1 Mark for all was the slogan Monika  explained in her speech at Opel.
• Alle zur Betriebsversammlung was the newspaper Monika’s group printed to mobilise the workers at Opel to go on strike. It didn’t succeed.

Feminist Movement

• Wir sind Frauen, wir sind viele, wir haben die Schnauze voll was a slogan  translated from the italian movement. (We are women, we are many, we’ve had enough!) Poster.
• Feminist Catch as Catch Can is an article published in Sage magazine and gives an analysis of some of the ideological struggles of early feminism.
• Frauenzeitung - Lesben in der Frauenbewegung was an edition of the feminist newspaper that highlighted the lesbian movement. (Lesbians in the women’s movement). Poster.
• The Flying Lesbians in Concert is a music video of a reunion concert the group gave in November 2007 in Berlin. It was the first time after over 30 years that the group had come together again.
• Lesbian Music in Concert was a concert tour throughout Europe, which Monika organised in 1979 for Alix Dobkin from New York and her own  music group ”Witch is Witch” she formed with Barbara Bauermeister. The tour included concerts in Kopenhagen, Amsterdam, London, Hamburg, Bremen,  Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Konstanz, Zürich and Rome.  Poster.
• Interview in German on LP Witch is Witch takes a look at the LP in hindsight.
• Frauen gemeinsam sind stark was one of the main feminist slogans. (Women together are strong). Poster.
• 218 Zeitung - Schluss mit der Bevormundung der Frau portrays the struggle to legalise abortion , Paragraph 218 in German law forbade abortion. (End the patronizing of women). Poster.
• The Lipstick story is an anecdote on lesbian movement dresscode.

Mother Center Movement– Documents in English

1.  Overviews on the state of the international Mother Center Movement

• Mothers Centers Around the World describes the spreading of the Mothers Centers Movement into over 20 countries world-wide.
  
• This text sums up the role we played as researchers to initiate and sustain the Mother Center movement.
• Introduction to the International MC Story is the introduction to the book that is currently traveling the world, until 10/10/2010, the first International Mother Centers Day.
• Background Information on mine gives an overview of the activities and approaches of the international Mothers Centers and the Mothers Centers International Network:  mine.
• Spreading like Wildfire compiles the results of a 5-country study, commissioned by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, on the bottom-up world-wide dissemination of Mother Centers.
• The mine Best Practice proposal is the text that was successfully submitted to receive UN accreditation as Best Practice and win the Dubai International Award for Best Practices for Improving the Living Environment.
• International Response to a Historic Need gives an introduction to the Mother Center Movement. It is the speech given by Monika Jaeckel at an international conference in the context of the  International Motherhood Movement in Toronto in October 2008.

2.  Results of first international MC conference with 20 countries in Bratislava

• The Report on the International mine conference:  How do we want to raise our children? summarises intent, process and results of the first international mine conference, attended by women from more than 20 countries.
• The Platform of Action is a political vision document put together at the first International Mother Center Congress  2006 in Bratislava, which gathered women from over 20 countries.
• This 2007 edition of the mine newsletter captures quotes and insights from the participants of the international mine conference, “How Do We Want to Raise Our Children?” in Bratislava.

3.  Articles and Interviews

• The article for the UN Habitat Newsletter puts the Mother Centers in the context of urban development.
• The article by ITDG summarises the Mother Center development.
• The interview with Monika Jaeckel for AWID reflects the Mother Center approach in relation to feminist debates.
• Mother Centers as a social movement is the transcript of an interview that was conducted by Srilatha Batliwala, from the Hauser Center at Harvard University, as part of a study on grassroots social movements.
• The mine newsletter GWIA 2006 is a collection of interviews of MC participants from all over the world at the GWIA held during the World Urban Forum in Vancouver in June 2006.  The interviews describe how MC leaders personally experience the Mother Centers.

4. Limitations and Paradoxes of the Mother Center Movement

• Mothers Centers as a Business reflects on the difficulties involved in creating financial sustainability for Mother Centers through an entrepreneurial approach.
• The political paradoxes the MC Movement faces, in Dutch.
• The political paradoxes the MC Movement faces, in English.

5.  Information on the MC Concept Points and how to start up a Mother Center

• The Mother Center Start up Materials I and VI are a shorter and a longer version describing the steps involved in starting up Mother Centers.  Start-up Materials I contains concept points that describe the key approaches of the MC concept. Start-up Materials VI describes the steps involved in starting up Mother Centers.
• The Report on the Mother Center Workshop in Nepal commissioned by Practical Action UK describes how the Mother Center concept is adapted in interactive exchange to the situation of women in Nepal.

6.  The Significance and Impact of MC for Specific Regions, Groups and Themes

• The Significance of Mother Centers for the Balkan Region describes how the MC are experienced in Bosnia.
• Mother Centers in Roma Communities–Mother Centered Development in Europe is the end report of a project co-commissioned by Cordaid and Spolu International on the lessons learned in the process of initiating Mother Centers in Roma Communities in Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Slovakia.
• Mother Centers in the Czech Republic describes the specific approach the MC have taken in the Czech Republic.
• Empowerment and Impact of Mother Centers is a report done for an EU Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Project and focuses on how Mothers Centers empower women and children.
• This text is a collection  of quotes on how Mother Centers contribute to the integration of migrants.

7.  The Original Mother Center Book

• Mothers in the Center–Mothers Centers is the book that started it all. It contains the first-hand stories of the participants of the first three model Mother Centers in Germany.

8.  The Development of Mother Centers  to Intergenerational Houses

• Partnerships for a New Millennium – the Stuttgart Model is a study commissioned by the Ford Foundation to describe the process of a successful partnership process between professional urban planners and grassroots groups that created the Inter-generational Mother Center in Stuttgart West.

9.  Mother Center International Network:  mine

• Why we created an international network describes the vision and development of mine.
• Mine Organizational Structure is a paper that describes the membership and participation procedures in mine.

10.  Mother Centers in Germany

• “All About Us” is a summary of the German Mothers Center Movement.
• The article “Mother Centers in Germany“  describes the beginnings of the Mother Center movement in Germany. It was written for the international UN Conference on Women 1995 in Beijing, which a delegation of 20 Mother Center women from Germany attended.

Mother Center Movement –Documents  in German

11.  Overviews on the Mother Center Movement and its Impact on Society

• Mütterzentren und soziale Verantwortung is a lecture given in 2006 at the Benedikthof in Germany and describes the MC movement as a way of creating alive and caring neighbourhoods.
• Mütterzentren und Gesellschaft is a text outlining the benefits Mother Centers have on society.

12.  Overviews on the Mother Center Concept and Development

• MZ Projektbeschreibung describes the development of the MC research project at the German Youth Institute.
• MZ auf einen Blick sums up what Mother Centers  are all about–in 2 pages.
• MZ Fakten is a fact sheet on German Mother Centers.
• MZ Konzept describes the original MC concept as developed in the research project of the German Youth Institute.
• Schlüsselelemente beim Aufbau von MZ describes key points of how to build up a MC.
• Habitat an die Basis is a text written for the United Nations Center for Human Settlements Sustainable Cities Sourcebook on Gender Sensitive Environmental Policies

13.  The Mother Center experience with Local to Local dialogs as a Governance Strategy

• Von und mit Familien lernen – Internationaler Local to Local Dialog in Stuttgart is a text describing the local to local methodology as introduced to the Mother Center movement and moderated by the grassroots group Womanspirit in St. Louis.

14.  The Mother Center experience with Savings and Credit groups

• Hot Money is a study carried through for the German Federal Department for Family Policy on the effects of Savings and Credit groups on single parenting welfare mothers. The method was introduced to the Mother Center movement by grassroots women’s groups from India .

15.  The experience of Mother Centers in Bosnia

• Im Mütterzentrum fühle ich mich wie in Europa is the report  on the start up process of Mother Centers in Bosnia as commissioned by the Robert Bosch Foundation.

16.  Mother Centers and the Role of Research

• Soziale Innovationen durch Forschung describes the process of activating research, how social movements can be jump started through research.
• MZ Befragung is a report of a study on the development of the German MC by the German Youth Institute in 1988.

Professional

• Video introducing M&M is a short advertisement for M&M.
• M&M company description summarises what Monika and Marieke’s company “M&M – Coaching and Research in Social Innovation” is all about.
• Working Principles of  M&M outlines working principles of Monika and Marieke’s company M&M.
• CV Monika Jaeckel gives an overview of Monika’s professional life.
• DJI page, Monika Jaeckel links to Monika’s personal page at the German Youth Institute.
• Circles of Change (Dutch) is a platform of action put together by M&M of an informal group of social innovators in Amsterdam
• Outline Neighborhood Academy was written for the Circles of Change group, but the vision was never taken up and realised.
• Grundtvig Partnership Report, Amsterdam portrays goals and methodologies of a peer learning project undertaken by the Nest! Foundation with eight European countries inside the EU Life long Learning Program.
• Nest leaflet is a short description of the Nest! Project.
• Introduction to Nest! Study gives a more elaborate introduction to the Nest! study.
• Complete Nest! Study gives the full text of the Nest! study.
• Article for Women and Environments is a summary of the Nest! project for a Canadian Women’s magazine.
• De Lerende Stad (Dutch) describes the results of the Nest study in dutch.
• Nest Project presentation is a power point presentation on the Nest! Project presented at Cordaid in Den Haag.
• Gender Sensitive Urban Planning is a power point presentation on Gender Sensitive Urban Planning which was presented at the Urbanism e Genere conference in Barcelona and describes principles of gender aware urban planning.
• Principles of Gender Sensitive Urban Planning is the article published after the conference Urbanism e Genere in Barcelona.
• Nest! Foundation workshop in 2010 is a description of a current project of the Nest! Foundation, addressing organisational development issues of grassroots groups.

The section Innovation consists of two parts:

1.  Grassroots Women’s International Academy (GWIA)

• GWIA wins Dubai International Award for the transfer of Best Practices is the press release sent out as notification that the Nest! Foundation had won the prestigious UN accredited award.
• GWIA as Methodolgy for Best Practice Transfer describes the way GWIA supports transfer processes.
• GWIA - one pager sums up the GWIA idea in one page.
• Article on first series of  GWIA reports on the results of the first GWIAs during the Expo 2000 in Germany.
• The GWIA Handbook describes the basic philosophy and methodology of the Grassroots Women’s International Academies.
• The Interview with Monika was conducted after the first GWIAs in Germany and describes the intentions and results of the original GWIAs.
• Article for GUD analyses GWIA as a learning format.
• Advancing Governance through Grassroots Networking is an article taking a broader outlook and describes some GWIA-related  theoretical and practical approaches. It analyses the function of peer learning for networking and for advocacy.
• GWIA powerpoint presentation was prepared for the award ceremony in Dubai.
• Report on GWIA 2001 sums up the results of this GWIA, which was the first after the original GWIAs to be transferred to a new setting.
• Short Description GWIA 2008 Barcelona describes the GWIA conducted as part of an EU Grundtvig Learning Parnership.
• Description of GWIA by ITDG  is a case study written by ITDG on GWIA.
• Grundvig GWIA  presentationis a powerpoint presentation that outlines the GWIA 2008, which was part of an EU project in the Lifelong Learning Program.

2.  Competence Audit

• The Competence Audit Presentation is a short description of the instrument as power point presentation in English.
• The Kompetenzbilanz Flyer describes the instrument in German.
• Einführung Kompetenzbilanz is an introduction to the approach of the competence audit in German.
• Kompetenzbilanz, Artikel für’s Bulletin is a brief description of the competence audit in German for the in house magazine of the German Youth institute.
• Handreichung zur Kompetenzbilanz are guidelines in German how to apply the instrument.
• Beschrijving Competentie Balans is a description of the instrument in Dutch.

Personal

• My Spiritual Journey describes stages of Monika’s inner growth process.
• Monika made music almost all her life and sang in several bands. Monika’s Music gives you a taste.
• Circular letters: The emails Monika sent out to her group of friends describing the inner and outer process of her illness: 1st Circular, 2nd Circular, 3rd & 4th Circular, 5th Circular, and 6th Circular.
• Quotes from responses received from friends (English). We wait for their approval before publishing the comments
• Quotes from responses received from friends (German).
• Quotes from responses received from friends (Dutch).
• Letter Monika wrote to the clinic and the treating doctors after hearing her cancer diagnosis.
• Invitation to Monika’s 60th birthday party including current photo of Monika and Marieke.
• Birthday speech Monika gave at her 60th birthday party.
• Birthday Photos
• Birthday Video
• Poster for Monika is a photo of the poster  painted by participants of the Mother Center International Network Meeting in Vienna, May 2009, as a gift to Monika who could not attend, for health reasons.
• Wedding Photos
• My Last Demonstration describes the gay parade through town after Monika and Marieke’s wedding ceremony.
• The Nazi Document describes the coming about of a very historic document.