C31 TEAM
Maša Avramović and Aleksandra Stamenković
We are the C31 team. Maša Avramović and Aleksandra Stamenković, the founders of the Centre, are leaders, creators, and authors of the Organization’s conceptual frameworks, programs, and projects. This duo has been leading the Organization since its establishment in 2007, in strategic and program development and project management, ensuring that the organizational values, vision, objectives, and principles are met in all aspects of its operations.
Maša is a pedagogue, researcher, and teacher at Södertörn University in Stockholm, a Gestalt play therapist with children and adolescents, and a supervisor in the Oaklander model, Gestalt and integrative psychotherapist under supervision. She is the author and educator of the international community-based trauma-care program for children living in difficult circumstances and coping with traumatic experiences (YARN), an expert in children’s participation as well as the author of numerous publications.
Aleksandra is a historian, an educator, a licensed ICI international coach master trainer, and an NLP IN master trainer. She is the author of an internationally accredited youth coaching program, Young Practitioner of Self-Leadership (link), an entrepreneur, and a founder of the Moment of Excellence Consulting and Education Centre. She has enrolled in the European-accredited Diploma program in Gestalt psychotherapy.
Organisational Goals, Mission, Vision
C31 – Centre for Creating a Culture of Children’s Rights is an NGO established in 2007 with an objective to take an active role in the fields of human and child rights, child and youth culture, and education.
Goals
The goals of the organization are contribution to the promotion and implementation of human and child rights, children’s and youth participation and activism, fostering humanistic values based on equal rights, encouraging critical, creative and ethical thinking, promotion of contextual learning and use of cultural and historical heritage as a resource for learning, as well as development of educational programs and pedagogical approaches in working with the children and young people.
Mission
The mission of the organization is to educate and empower children and young people, contribute to broader social awareness raising about the importance of joint building of a democratic society of equal citizens, with active youth participation and intergenerational dialogue.
Vision
The vision of the organization is a society where everyone, with respect of their differences, can feel equal, safe, accepted, involved, belonging, encouraged, fulfilled, purposeful, and content, can have a dignified life and equal opportunities for developing their full potentials and expressing their authenticity.
C31 Principles
During almost two decades since it was founded, C31 has gone through various internal transformations and witnessed different socio-political processes, and has come out of them with insights that further supported core values and principles that have served as an inner compass for C31’s holders and their work.
Today, within this website (re)constructed to include the Share–Engage learning platform the C31 team has articulated and presented eight principles of work as its guiding principles for all its projects and programs (link to the platform).
