Wild Womb: Menstrual Education, Health & sovereignty
Erasmus+ KA153 Youth Workers Mobility
The project offers menstrual education tools to integrate and apply in Youth Work contexts. Further, it aims to co-generating responses to combat precariousness and discrimination, in collaboration with the partnerships, and caring for Planet Earth.
Budget: 20 518€
Starting Date: May 2025
Length: 8 months
Participants explore the physiological, social and political aspects associated with the menstrual cycle and gain resources for conscious, respectful and critical menstrual education. In addition, they participate in intercultural dialogues aimed at generating responses to combat taboo, discrimination and menstrual poverty and to promote the use of sustainable menstrual management products.
Partner Associations
– Europamente ETS (Italy)
– InterAlia (Greece)
– Associacao Quinta das Relvas (Portugal)
– Global Explorers Youth Team (Turkey)
– Shoura For Building National Consensus (Jordan)
– JEFF-Ukraine (Ukraine)
RESOURCES for facilitators
01
Traveling Within: Anatomy, Physiology, and Cyclicity
Facilitated by Mikaela Estrada
This class offers a journey through the sexual anatomy of bodies with a uterus and the physiological functioning of the ovulatory menstrual cycle. The talk presents an anatomical and physiological exploration that considers the energetic, living, and embodied aspects of the organs, and invites us to approach them from an integral perspective that embraces felt somatic awareness and a connection to the emotional information held within the body.
02
Gender and Intersectionality in menstrual sovereignty
FACILITATED BY Serena Bernardini (Europamente)
In this class, Serena explains the concept of intersectionality and explores how it relates to menstrual sovereignty, highlighting the political, social, and intersecting dimensions of the menstrual cycle.
WILD WOMB TOOLKIT
A non-formal education toolkit that promotes collective knowledge and participatory methods to support personal and social transformation. It includes movement and breathing practices, eco-somatic walks, artistic expression, sharing circles, and discussions on menstrual rights to challenge taboos, address inequalities, and strengthen menstrual literacy in youth work.
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Dissemination and Follow up
Moments
«I bleed and remember this is not weakness,
this is the earth moving through me.
Pain may take my hand
teaching me to rest, receive,
and came here again.»
Mobility project for youth workers in the youth field (KA153)
2025-1-ES02-KA153-YOU-000300970
The project was financed with the support of European Commission’s Erasmus+ Programme, administered by the Spanish National Agency. This publication reflects only the author’s views, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained there in.