Ulex Workshop at Global Just Recovery Gathering
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.
Coming up – Regenerative Activism Conference 2021
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!
Beyond Horizontalism and Hierarchy
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 some of these approaches have revolutionised practice and can be harnessed within social change organisations to build resilience […]
Building beyond burnout in Sweden
With a ‘stunning democratic breakdown’ occurring across much of the Balkans, LGBTQI+ people are living within an increasingly overt hostile environment. We interviewed 5 activists from across the region to learn first-hand how resilience and resistance are being woven together within queer organizing circles.
Narrative is fractal : Why we need more than words to truly face racism
In the first of a series of profile pieces on Ulex project partners, we’re highlighting the excellent work of the Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) in Wales. PIRC is an independent charity which works to help movements – for equality, anti-oppression, and environmental justice – to tell better stories for a different world.
Reclaiming power with women’s self-defence in Belarus and Poland
With a ‘stunning democratic breakdown’ occurring across much of the Balkans, LGBTQI+ people are living within an increasingly overt hostile environment. We interviewed 5 activists from across the region to learn first-hand how resilience and resistance are being woven together within queer organizing circles.
Resilience as Resistance: LGBTQI+ Movement Building in the Balkans
Apologies, we are currently in the process of translating the Ulex site into Catalan and Spanish. Please be patient with us – this page will be coming soon! With a ‘stunning democratic breakdown’ occurring across much of the Balkans, LGBTQI+ people are living within an increasingly overt hostile environment. We interviewed 5 activists from across […]
Tools & Practices for Navigating Uncertainty : 2020 Regenerative Activism Series
When navigating through stress and uncertainty what are some of the ways we might develop resilience and collective care in a time of Deep Change?
Somatic Spaces for Healing Activist Trauma
An interview with Ulex trainer Lou Hemmerman about the importance of trauma-informed sustainable activism and how body-based practices can support healing at both an individual and movement level.
The Landworkers Alliance – Building resilience into our organisational structures.
In November 2019, the Ulex Project worked with the Landworkers Alliance to design a bespoke training in ‘Facilitation, sustainable organising and movement building’ to support their staff to better build skills and strategies for organising effective projects and campaigns. Roz Corbett, who participated in the training, shares a little of her experience.