Over the weekend of February 23-25 family members of people who were affected by violent radicalization met in Warsaw for a workshop about practical tools in counselling other families to counter violent extremism. Aspects such as risk assessment, coping with burnout and stress, evidence-based methods in deradicalization and family-based intervention programs were introduced. At the same time, the participants gave testimonies about their stories and experiences to the team of DARE to help build the educational toolkit that will be amongst the key outputs of the DARE products.

The participants came from Tunisia, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom and even though their contexts and struggles faced by their home countries differ greatly from each other, it became clear that they all shared very similar experiences of loss, powerlessness and pain but also the will to connect to each other and to jointly step forward supporting other families in need.

The DARE team is grateful for the opportunity to work with such wonderful and strong people.

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