Do you love physical strength training, and have you ever thought about turning this passion into a coaching practice that serves our communities?
Join us for our upcoming online workshop: 🏋️ Become a Queer Feminist Strength Coach: Empowerment, Health & Economic Justice
📅 Date: 2026, 10 September
🕒 Time: 18:30-19:30 CET
💻 Format: Online (Zoom)
📝 Registration deadline: 3 September (registration is open only for EL*C members)
This workshop is for EL*C members who are active in sports or strength training and are curious about becoming coaches – whether full-time, part-time, or simply exploring the possibility.
Together with Ana, we will look at how strength training can become not only a tool for individual empowerment, but also an accessible and sustainable practice rooted in queer feminist values and economic justice.
As part of the Zoom registration, we will ask you a few short questions about your experience, interests, and barriers to entering coaching. Your answers will help Ana adapt the workshop to the people in the room.
Ana brings over a decade of personal fitness experience to their work as a certified FLINTA* strength coach in Berlin. As a queer feminist migrant from the Balkans, their practice focuses on intersectional care, ensuring that strength training supports individual health and collective liberation.
We will explore:
🏋️ From passion to practice: Ana’s journey from lived experience to becoming a certified women’s strength specialist.
🔥 A queer feminist empowerment framework: coaching FLINTA people for strength, health, confidence and space-claiming.
💸 Making coaching accessible: how sliding-scale and other pricing strategies can make your practice accessible without making your own work unsustainable.
🌱 Building a sustainable practice: creating coaching models that can support you economically while serving our communities.
Personal coaching is often expensive, exclusive, and built around bodies and experiences that do not reflect our communities. We want to explore what happens when we build something different: coaching by and for our communities, grounded in accessibility, empowerment and solidarity.
No previous coaching experience or certification is required. Whether you already coach, lift regularly, or are simply wondering whether this could become part of your future work, you are welcome.
Please register by 3 September 2026.
