An introduction to a holistic and transformative approach to activist training and facilitation
This training aims to support activists and organisers who want to step into facilitation roles and use holistic methods of education and facilitation for activists and change makers. This course is an introduction to facilitation and training skills.
Ulex Project courses and events use an Integral Activist Training approach. Recognising the interconnected nature of the personal, the interpersonal and the political, our trainings empower integrated transformation in all three spheres. This training for trainers will be rooted in the Integral Activist Training approach but will focus on basic skills, aiming to support those with little or no facilitation experience to feel more empowered and skilled to step into facilitation and training roles.
More on the Integral Activist Training approach here.
What are the aims of the course?
So, the workshop will help participants to:
Who is it aimed at?
Anyone involved in socially engaged action addressing ecological, political and social justice issues. We embrace a broad definition of activism, including: Resistance – action preventing further damage to ecosystems and social justice; Renewal – action focused on developing and creating alternatives for healthier societies and communities; and Building Resilience – action supporting increased resilience in communities to weather the uncertain times ahead.
The main spoken language on the course will be English.
Mo currently lives in Berlin and Warsaw, working in the European Youth for Action (EYFA) network, supporting social and environmental struggles from EYFA’s office. Mo is an experienced trainer, a member of the SPINA trainer’s for social change collective, delivering numerous workshops, facilitating group processes and helping groups in need to figure out unhelpful dynamics, informal power relationships and conflicts they are facing. Recently Mo has published a book about gender bending, as the Polish Academy wasn’t ready to accept it as Mo’s PHD dissertation.
Neus has been passionate about education since she was 8 years old and went dumpster diving in teachers’ recycling bins for worksheets to help other students learn at break-time. She moved from Castellon to Scotland to study Community Education, with a focus on youth work and adult education, where she co-founded The New Leaf Co-op, a successful workers’ co-op in Edinburgh. Whilst there Neus developed her understanding of how productivity meets good working conditions meets overturning the food system meets resourcing the commons with resilient and democratically managed capital. This passion now underpins her project coordination role at Ulex.
deepening sustainable activism - nurturing resilience
methods and tools for working well with conflict in our groups
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3. A networked project adding nutrition and fertility to European social movements through training and capacity building. It kindles the realisation of social justice, ecological intelligence, and cognitive vitality.