What is coming in 2024?
We are continuing to shape and deliver a capacity building programme that responds to live challenges of social movements in Europe. We will be adding and trailing some new trainings, like Conflict Transformation course and Leadership Retreat. We are coming back with our Roots of Resilience course, rooted in and (re)growing from our Radical Nature […]
Movement Learning Catalyst: A Year+ Programme
We’re living at a historical point of disruption which contains both great peril and promise.
Solidarity Networks and Leaning into Wisdom Beyond Trauma
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. Lindsay Alderton speaks with one of the core team, Caoimhe Butterly, about finding hope amidst despair.
Regenerative Activism 2021 Round-Up
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.
New for 2021: 4 month LGBTQI+ resilience training in Eastern & Central Europe
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.
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.