Basic Facilitation Skills CEE

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8 to 15 November 2025

an introduction to a holistic and transformative approach to activist training and facilitation

This course offers a practical introduction to facilitation and training skills, specifically designed for activists and organisers who want to step into facilitation roles with more skill and confidence. It will focus on the application of holistic, participatory methods which can support learning and empowerment tailored to activists and changemakers.

At Ulex, all our courses and events are influenced by an Integral Activist Training approach. Recognising the interconnected nature of the personal, the interpersonal and the political, our training works to 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. 

You can read more on the Integral Activist Training approach here

This training is part of the Ulex Central and Eastern Europe Programme. It is designed and delivered by a training team embedded in CEE social movements.

 

What are the aims of the course?

  • Explore various aspects of transformative and holistic activist education
  • Empower activists to step into facilitation roles and equip participants with basic facilitation skills to apply in their own contexts
  • Offer tools which support more skilful inter-personal work in our groups and networks, and enable ways of organising which exemplify the values we want to realise in the world.

 

So, the workshop will help participants to:

  • Assess their existing skills and knowledge and identify areas of growth in relation to social movement-based facilitation and training
  • Understand key, basic principles of transformative and holistic approaches to education
  • Think strategically about what kind of educational and facilitation skills are needed in their local organising context
  • Develop basic and initial skills in:
    – creating learning spaces that embody solidarity and restore a sense of empowerment
    – navigating power dynamics skillfully in groups and in learning spaces
    – supporting groups to embody the values they strive for
  • Learn approaches and practices to support individual growth, developing talent and creativity, deepening self-awareness and learning to bring deep inner resources to support our struggles.

 

Who is it aimed at?

Anyone involved in socially engaged action addressing ecological, political and social justice issues, coming from Central and Eastern Europe. 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; Building Resilience – action supporting increased resilience in communities to weather the uncertain times ahead.

This training will take place in Kunbábony, Hungary

This venue is accessible for people with limited mobility.

This training is offered in the solidarity economy. You do not need to contribute financially to attend. Contact us if you need a travel bursary – we might be able to offer it.

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Sergio

Germany

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Germany

Sergio (all pronouns) was born in Romania and migrated to Germany in the early 2010s. In the past, he was a social worker with homeless people and a social consultant for Eastern European migrants for various organisations. Trained as a filmmaker, he spent two years making a documentary about the ‘civic reawakening’ in Romania and the waves of protest it brought with it. In connection to this, Sergio is currently co-steering the development of an online open-source participative knowledge production platform on activism in Romania. Over the past nine years, Sergiu has offered his skills to various journalists, grassroots collectives and campaigns, mostly working within the labour rights, climate justice, international solidarity and anti-authoritarian movements in Germany and Romania. Nonetheless, his biggest focus since 2020 has been his work as an organiser with the anarcho-syndicalist Free Workers Union, where he focuses mostly on organising Romanian migrant workers on construction sites, in factories and in the agricultural field.

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Jeroen

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Jeroen (he/him pronouns) has been involved in grassroots social movements for more than two decades now, starting back when he was fifteen. Throughout the years the fights for “climate justice” and “migrant justice” have been consistently on top of the list of struggles that make his heart beat faster. A key transformative moment for Jeroen was reading Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire’s revolutionary pedagogy gave him a language to support the creation of emancipatory learning environments, rooted in a desire for collective liberation. Jeroen has also been exploring in depth Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and Joanna Macy’s The Work That Reconnects among other methodologies to build his trainer’s toolkit. Inspired by the liberatory possibilities of these traditions, he started an organization with a friend, LABO vzw, based in Belgium, where he has worked as a trainer and campaigner between 2013 and 2023.

Ella

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Alex Swain

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Nina Scott

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