Creating the Human Library:Fighting taboos & stigma through dialogue | Ronni Abergel | TEDxBucharest
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Imagine a safe space where we could all sit together and talk openly about taboos and stigma! A place where a conversation with a refugee, a transgender, a bipolar person or someone living with an eating disorder is equally possible, open and informative.
Ronni Abergel has been developing this space for 17 years with his concept of Human Library™, a movement designed to build a positive framework for conversations , where real people are on loan to readers, a place where difficult questions are expected, appreciated and answered.
Would you let somebody "borrow" you? We all have our stories that are relevant to someone. Feel free to share a moment with a complete stranger - your story may be of great need to somebody.
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Ronni Abergel, born and raised in Denmark, is the creator of the Human Library™ as well as a journalist and social change activist working full time at the Human Library Organization, which he founded. He is also a co-founder of the Danish Stop The Violence Organisation | humanlibrary.org
Ronni Abergel is the founder of The Human Library. This project is meant to help implement initiatives from Stop the Violence Movement, an NGO that he co-founded to fight violence among young people guided by the belief that “If we could make people sit down with a group attached to a certain stigma they don’t like or even know about for that matter, we could diminish violence”. Since 2000, when the initiative was launched, The Human Library has been continuously growing and expanding worldwide, as a platform of peer to peer discussions to fight the prejudice and violence in society.
Ronni Abergel was born and raised in Denmark, he is a journalist and social change activist. The Human Library Organization has an uncommon concept where instead of books, real people with real stories are on loan to readers. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
It's disappointing to see such nice innovative ideas get less than 6K views
What's a real shame is that you have to go through a LOT of red tape to create a chapter in your own country/state
I agree. And funny cats get millions!
It's a shame prejudice of that extent exists but it's so good to see such an innovative idea to tackle a growing issue of this caliber
So beautiful idea❤️ i wish we have a human library in Lebanon middle east.. We need that.... Thank you
Going to host one in Heidelberg, Germany!
Amara Vincent I wanna talk to libraries in my hometown of Pittsburgh to host a human library!!
How do you do it?
Discovering this concept just now. Find it fantastic ! Would it be possible to create such library in Belgium. We've3 officials languages : French, Dutch and Getman. I'm French speaking. Thanks by advance for your answer.
I like this . I would like a library like this in fresno california
We need one in Kenya💯💓
Excellent 👌
great speach!!
Ronni said something interesting about censorship in Russia about homosexuality here at home we are no different! NOT ALL ppl but many are ! vias due to ignorance, media Stram feedback, political trends etc sho how different we are from other countries where censorship.
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When people are afraid you can get them to vote!
What have we come to
i'd like this to be done in india , help me out
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He said there's no agenda, but then said it's trying to "build more diversity and tolerance". That is an agenda.
Remember, there is no monetary gain - It is all free. Altruistic. It is just allowing people to tell what they feel are stories worth hearing to people who want to hear them - and are all free to someone who wants to listen. So if we want to call it an agenda, it is one word: Conversation - and conversation leads to understanding.