It all starts with the individual. If one person in the family is empowered, then there is a good chance that the rest could be empowered. Where there is love, care and nurturing in a family, definitely there is empowerment. One could also be empowered and empower others in a workplace. School as well, where you read books like Paulo Feire, hear form experienced professors and learn form the wealth of experience of fellow students, is empowering.
Empowerment has a rippling effect.
If a community is empowered through individuals and families, nations are empowered, and if nations are empowered the whole world could be empowered, and this empowerment could result in social change. But we are not the experts, empowerment is something that is better understood collectively, because we all can learn something form one another - so we would like for a moment to take off our trainer hats and as a group explore what this term means to us. Please take a moment to brainstorm two or more elements or aspects of empowerment and write them on the pieces of paper we have provided. In summary we could think of empowerment of a tapestry woven form all of these elements, made up of both actions and beliefs. Belief in the Expert - deferring or conferring thoughts and opinions to others 3.