Learning from Latin America: Building a Common Front
Strategies for alliance-building and strengthening political power on the Left. [Versión en español aquí] What can European movements learn from the transformative strategies and enduring alliances forged in Latin American movements? This new video resource explores the experience of Uruguay’s Frente Amplio — a broad-based progressive coalition with over 50 years of history and experience […]
Looking back at 2024…
It’s so important to make the time to pause and take stock in our work. To give real importance to the space for reflection – on outcomes, achievements, challenges, questions, uncertainties, enjoyment, all that stuff – making sure we are staying alive to the core of our mission and doing our work in a way that aligns with our values. Along with the necessity of this in supporting effective evaluative and visioning processes, it’s also so important to take the time to absorb and celebrate the successes and positive outcomes of the work we’ve all been doing. Loads happened at Ulex this year! We thought we’d share a few of those highlights with you. Here goes…
Ulex Team Meetings 2025 – Reflection, Relationship, Resourcing & Strategy
Over the years of running Ulex – and for years before that in our sibling project Ecodharma – we have considered it necessary and important to carve out structured times and spaces throughout the year for evaluation, reflection and taking stock. We have done that in all kinds of ways, but always we have had a period in midwinter where we pause and spend some substantial time – two weeks or so – reviewing the previous year, revisiting vision and values, attending to relationships in the team and strategising for what’s coming.
New Guide to Learning for Systemic Change
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.
Rad HR Library: how to work together in a way that embodies our values?
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.
Ulex Team Update: we’re growing!
Since we launched in 2016 the Ulex coordination team has grown, with the original crew of Gee, Ella, Lindsay and Carol joined by five new members – Eweryst, Lou, Neus, Kat and Sheila. Our logistics and hosting team have also grown with Sana now joined by Sergi and Frida.
Crowdfunding a new training centre to make change happen.
Crowdfunding update – 10 April – Within two weeks we have now reached over 50% of our target! Hundreds of people from all over the world have contributed and we’re now over half-way there and have until 09:00 am on May 2 to raise the remaining €20000. Will you help us create a unique new training centre to empower organisers and activists working on the most pressing issues of our times? Visit our campaign page to learn more.