Board and team

Sílvia has a degree in Psychology and Master’s degree in Gender Studies. She has pursued her professional career working on different expressions of gender-based violence from a feminist and intersectional perspective. She has worked in areas of empowerment and awareness both individually and in groups. At Hèlia, she currently works as a women’s psychologist and as an advocate for the eradication of sexist violence against women.

Liliana is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies: Cultures, Societies and Politics and a Master’s degree in Gender Studies, whose line of research focuses on gender and memory from a decolonial feminist epistemology. She is a consultant and specialist with international experience in conceptualising and evaluating projects from a perspective of feminism, human rights and interculturality. She currently coordinates the Veïnes per Veïnes (‘Women Neighbours for Women Neighbours”) project in Barcelona and promotes its use across Catalonia. She is committed to the feminist and anti-racist struggle through education and activism.

Llicenciada en Psicologia; formada en teràpia Gestalt, violències masclistes i traumateràpia. All llarg de la seva trajectòria laboral, i des d’una mirada feminista i interseccional, ha treballat acompanyant a dones al seu procés d’apoderament des d’una intervenció individual i grupal. Té experiència terapèutica amb infants i adolescents en situació de violències masclistes. Actualment treballa a Hèlia com a psicòloga de dones i realitzant tasques de sensibilització, prevenció i recuperació de les violències viscudes.

Our collaborators are essential for developing the association’s projects and for achieving a comprehensive approach to women’s empowerment processes. Each collaboration is based on the woman’s experience and specialty, on our shared values and on the premise that the sum of diverse knowledge is greater than its parts.

Elina studied and practiced Reiki in Japan, Kripalu Yoga in the United States and Hatha Yoga in India, as well as different types of massage and oriental dance in the United Arab Emirates and Germany. She completed a postgraduate degree in sexist violence against women and became specialised in Integrative Body Therapy (IBT). She runs a Kripalu Yoga Workshop for Women and Teens and an Integrative Body Therapy (IBT) workshop for female survivors of violence. She has also volunteered for the Veïnes per Veïnes project since 2014.

With a degree in Gender Studies, Karin is a feminist activist with a long background in feminist and NGO activism who has taught feminist self-defence since 2001. She is a 3rd Dan in Ki Aikido and is trained to teach Aikido, Tai Chi and self-defence, in addition to having professional training in body therapies from traditional Chinese medicine, polarity therapy and the Grinberg Method. She has published two books and runs the feminist self-defence workshop for women at Hèlia. You can find out more at www.autodefensa.net.

Món studied Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona (UB) and Escola Grisart and she holds a Master’s degree in Design and Communication from Elisava, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and a Master’s degree in History from the UB. These studies have converged in teaching and supervising undergraduate, postgraduate and Master’s programmes at Elisava, UPF and at the School of Photography at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). She collaborates with Hèlia on the Mirades de dona photography workshop together with Eugènia. Both women arethe co-founders of CLICme.

Eugènia studied Contemporary Image Procedures at the Massana School of Arts and Crafts. She has also studied at the AKI Academy of Art & Design in the Netherlands at the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia and has a postgraduate degree in Visual and Therapeutic Image Pedagogy from the UAB. Photography has become her universal language and the tool she uses to work with people. She collaborates with Hèlia on the Mirades de dona (“Women’s Perspectives”) photography workshop together with Món. Both women arethe co-founders of CLICme..

Volunteers are a key part of our team. Plural and diverse, each of the women who make it up enriches the group with their knowledge and experiences, giving it an added value of community wealth. The synergies that are being created and the strength of the group make volunteering one of the essential drivers of the association for people to get involved in the fight for women’s right to live free of sexist violence against women.