Forging the Future
Root down
to rise up
Building leaderful organisations
Movements need more than courage. They need strategy, vision, and resilient leadership. Enter the next Forging the Future training programme....
Who?
What?
When?
Aimed at Core team members or experienced national and local leaders from organisations with a commitment to capacity building, social justice commitments and explicit division of responsibilities.
Intensive 5-day residential retreats followed by 6 weeks of coaching that support expanding the learning through your organisation.
How?
For 2025/2026 the programme will cover Supportive Facilitation
and Collaborative Leadership, then Strategic Leadership.
Intro workshops in late October and November 2025, see dates below
12th-17th January '26: 1st Residential in the Netherlands.
January-March: First coaching phase.
Second residential dates to follow....
Meet the Trainers
Strategic leadership
Collaborative Leadership
Supportive Facilitation
With Roni Wiener & Melissa Jones from Integration Station Collective.
ICS are based in the Netherlands. Anchored in:
Nonviolence and nonviolent communication
Convergent Facilitation
Systemic change
With Roni & Melissa
Supportive Facilitation
Monday 3rd of November 6-8:30pm CET
Collaborative Leadership In Practice
Tuesday 18th of November 6-8:30pm CET
With Jeroen Robbe Co-founder of Labo in Belgium and part of the Ulex Trainers Collective.
Involved with grassroots disruptive actions and organizing since he was 15 years old in Belgium.
Core organizer for the first climate action camps in Belgium in 2009.
Campaign coordinator for decolonizing project.
Palestinian solidarity grassroots support
With Jeroen
Strategic Leadership
Wednesday 29th of October 6-8:30pm CET
Strategic leadership isn’t a secret art reserved for a select few—it’s something we all practice, even if it sometimes feels mysterious or overly complicated. Yet, regardless of how tangled it seems, we can’t afford to ignore it.
Join Jeroen Robbe for an energising workshop that kicks off Resilient Uprising’s year‑long program in collaborative and strategic leadership. It’s the perfect chance to demystify strategy, sharpen your skills, and connect with fellow movement leaders ready to turn hope into action. See you there!
When we try to move toward more collective responsibility, we often get stuck in disagreements or long discussions. We sometimes compromise or use force simply because we don’t know what else to try. Or we just keep talking until we run out of energy, patience, or time.
What can you do to facilitate decisive action that cares for everyone’s needs?
In this intro session, Roni offers a demo and guided practice for resolving disagreements by integrating concerns. You can use these skills to:
hold more efficient meetings without leaving anyone behind
get everyone to agree on a plan, even when people have opposite preferences
facilitate difficult conversations in ways that increase trust and pull to action
Introductionary Workshops
We live in a time when the brokenness of our world is undeniable
Climate collapse, rising authoritarianism, deep inequality, and the erosion of collective hope.
Since the fall of alternatives to extractive capitalism, many have turned inward, isolated in silos and stripped of faith in a shared future.
The thread of resistance and collective courage has never been lost.
Across history, mentors and movements have shown us another path: Civil resistance, solidarity, and the discovery of strength in community.
There is a tradition and we are gathering the teachers to deliver the key learning.
There's Hope...
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