In late 2021, we engaged activists involved with more than 100 organisations across Europe, to ask them about the key challenges their movements and organisations were facing. Most pointed to fragmentation, persistent divisions within and between movements, and a lack of movement capacity for longer-term and coherent strategy. Based on this, together with our close […]

Creating the conditions for our teams and organisations to work well isn’t easy. Neus, who is part of Ulex’s Team Culture Circle, spoke to people from RadHR to hear what they are doing to help movement organisations develop effective and value based systems that can help. I’m curious about your name. What was the thinking […]

We’re living at a historical point of disruption which contains both great peril and promise. The stalled engine of neoliberal growth, bankrupted political leadership, deepening inequalities in wealth and power, ongoing racist and patriarchal violence, and the fierce urgency of the ‘ecological now’ delimit the terrain upon which we need to contest our future. Against […]

Tens of thousands of refuge-seekers continue to die preventable deaths at sea, and in the absence of State support, volunteer solidarity networks are providing infrastructure and vital care. To support their work, Ulex recently teamed up with organisations working in Greece, Italy, and Spain to develop resources for enhancing psychosocial resilience in migrant solidarity activism. […]

For the fourth year running the Ulex Project collaborated with Advaya and Gita Parihar to offer the Regenerative Activism conference, this time focussed on the theme of Building and Sustaining Our Movements. Over a five week period, from 24 February to 21 March 2021, hundreds of people tuned in around the world to participate in […]

For over a decade, Ulex trainers have been working on psycho-social resilience training for activists. In recent years we have been developing a curriculum aimed specifically at the LGBTQI+ community, alongside supporting social movements in Eastern & Central Europe. To address the specific challenges of the LGBTQI+ community in this region, the Ulex Project is […]

Coming up from April 9 – 11, 350.0rg and hundreds of organisations round the world will host a global three-day online event for the climate movement to ‘recharge, rebuild, and reconnect’.  The Ulex Project will be offering an Activist Psychosocial Resilience workshop on Friday April 9. Choices are being made right now that will shape […]

We’re excited to be co-hosting, for the fourth year running, the Regenerative Activism 2021 Conference: Building & Sustaining Our Movements, a series of 4 critical conversations and a half day workshop exploring the transformative power of social movements. We’d love you to join us!   Over the space of five weeks, in collaboration with Gita Parihar […]

How can we design decision-making frameworks and share power in more nuanced and effective ways in our movements? In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in agile and decentralised approaches to self-organising structures, drawing on systems thinking, information theory, and notions of agility. In the Organisations Revisioned training at Ulex we explore how […]

In Sweden, four activists who attended a training at Ulex launched a Resilient Movements project on their return. They speak about the negative impact of productivity standards on activist culture, and how social movements can become more resilient through daring to break silence around burnout. By Valdemar Möller   Two days before this interview, Lanja Rashid and Olivia Linander […]