What inspires Behna to engage in field support?
In the suffocating competition based world we live in, field support is truly a breath of fresh air that we’re excited for, as a way of overcoming the increasing pressure of production as opposed to mutual growth.
We’re excited to share our experience in more effective and direct ways through open channels of communication through which information, resources and learning outcomes flow freely.
As our work environment turns more and more into a supportive community, we become increasingly excited to extend this atmosphere to near and far similar communities/organisations with shared visions, so we can meet where we intersect and grow into virtual nurturing giants for culture everywhere.
As Within As Without
What We Are Testing
Culture is everything. It’s not just a facet of humanity, it is its mirror and litmus test, when it thrives we thrive and when its spaces shrink, we shrink with it. From this belief and with the support of iac Berlin, we are trying to find the gaps between our inner worlds and outer ones, between our priority of establishing a bustling culture scene that is free enough and supported enough to reflect and improve the world it exists in and our personal needs that by filling which individually and collectively we turn into a more stable and creative unit that supports both individual growth and collective spiral growth that feeds back into the outcomes of our programs and collaborations with participants and other institutions within the same field.
Personal Development Path
Enhancing individual capabilities and expanding expertise through travel, engagement with similar initiatives, and cross-contextual learning opportunities.
Workplace Wellbeing
Cultivating a healthy, psychologically safe workspace by collaborating with experts to strengthen core skills, energy management, and guidance techniques.
Reflective Path
Conducting reflection and brainstorming sessions to examine our aspirations for the cultural and civic landscape while envisioning future possibilities.
Skill Development Path
Building key soft skills that align personal growth with defined roles in the organization, ensuring each team member is supported in their ambitions.
As we carry out this experiment, we are asking ourselves:
- How do we leave everyone we interact with—especially through long-term programs—with meaningful and lasting change?
- How can we exchange cultural practices and methodologies effectively with other institutions and practitioners?
- How do we turn evaluation feedback into actionable, applicable outcomes?
- What strategies can help us empower and enable cultural actors in their different roles more effectively?
- How do we leave everyone we interact with—especially through long-term programs—with meaningful and lasting change?
- How can we exchange cultural practices and methodologies effectively with other institutions and practitioners?
- How do we turn evaluation feedback into actionable, applicable outcomes?
- What strategies can help us empower and enable cultural actors in their different roles more effectively?
Meet the team
We’re a dynamic team of 10-11 diverse individuals from all walks of life and all age groups. We’re unified by our passion for cultural work and our love for different arts. From our youngest who is merely twenty years old to our oldest, we run through a dynamic atmosphere that leaves so much space for innovation and creative ideas to take place. Although we have specific roles inside our institution, we also have enough flexibility for different team members to test and develop their skills however they see fit, in a frame of work that prioritizes experimentation and creative growth in our local community.
Each member no matter their background is both a seed and an anchor for other local creatives to shine the light of their talents on our charming city alexandria. In an environment that turns volunteer work to an asset, we managed to turn our shared investment in Behna into a dynamic community that thrives on diversity and communal learning. We absolutely believe behna is a living breathing creature and we are its organs breathing and cleansing and digesting the changing faces of Alexandria and constantly evolving with it for the sake of a better creative future for us all.