Dorit Machell
Profile Picture Dorit Machell EJBW
Dorit Machell is a cultural scientist (M.A.) with an academic background in media culture, international relations and media management, which she studied in Weimar (Germany) and Malmö (Sweden). She has completed a wide range of professional development programmes, including training in human rights education, European non-formal education, sustainability education, dialogue facilitation, online facilitation, non-violent communication, design thinking, coaching, the Noah Sow Academy’s Successful Event Management Critical of Racism course and additional training in accessible event management. Dorit is also a Fellow of the FutureLab Europe Programme (Robert Bosch Foundation/Körber Foundation).
Since 2011, Dorit has been working as an educational consultant, learning facilitator and project coordinator in European non-formal adult education. Since 2017, her focus has been on human rights education, professional development and organisational training. Her work explores how educational and organisational processes can be made democratic, power-critical, and sensitive to diversity and discrimination.
Since the beginning of 2020, Dorit has been the full-time project manager for the »Migrants as Youth Workers« project at the European Youth Education and Meeting Centre (EJBW) in Weimar. In this role, she plans, designs and facilitates a qualification programme in the field of civic education. Dorit particularly enjoys the opportunity to work intensively, individually and holistically with participants, accompanying them throughout the qualification process. She finds great strength and inspiration in the collective growth of the project and its participants.
Dorit has lived in Germany, Iceland, Sweden and Canada and has called Weimar, Germany home for the past ten years, where she lives with her bilingual, bi-national family. From Weimar, Dorit works all over Europe.
Her guiding questions are: How do we want to work and learn together? How can we bring the values of human rights to education and organizational structure in an uncompromising way? How do we design educationand leadership that is critical of discrimination?
Currently Dorit is focusing on concepts of social justice, adultism, ableism, classism and the organisational model of sociocracy.
See here for a selection of Dorit’s educational offerings.