Collaborative & Strategic Leadership
Root down
to rise up
Enabling 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
ISC are based in the Netherlands. Anchored in:
Nonviolence as a way of life
Integrative decision-making
Regenerative systemic change
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
From control or chaos to resilient collaboration
Many of us have gathered passionate people and mobilized to change the world, but it’s hard to have the impact we want when our organizational design is unclear or not aligned with our needs. Instead of complaining about wanting more members to take on leadership, responsibility, or commitment, we can focus on creating supportive conditions for effective collaboration. Which models for organizing and making decisions would best serve your community and goals?
Bring your real life challenges and discover new possibilities! Roni will provide live coaching so you can immediately apply what you learn.
Topics include:
Choosing structures that fit your context (hint: it’s not just hierarchy or consensus)
Responding to challenges with a systemic orientation
Clarifying who does what and how
Making agreements that people will actually follow
It is not enough to want change, we need to be willing to take consistent action to become what we want.
Introductionary Workshops
Write to info @ resilientuprising.org if you are considering joining the program and want to watch the recording of the session with Roni, Melissa & Jeroen.
First Residential Retreat & post-retreat 6 weeks
Collaborative Leadership
Supportive Facilitation
The venue
Learn by doing: work with real life challenges, leave with practical insights and plans you can implement.
Competencies of include:
Leadership: organizational design, decision-making, feedback
Facilitation: agenda building, integration, framing, interrupting
Intended outcomes for the 5 day residential retreat:
understand the core competencies (mentioned above) and how to develop them
have tools and templates to apply in your organisation
experience these tools and be able to explain them to others
build relationships for mutual support in the coming months
carry an embodied sense of what collaborative leadership feels like
An immersive experience means faster learning, community support, and lots of opportunities to experiment!
Key info
Dates: Arrival Monday 12th of January 2026. Departure Saturday afternoon 17th
Location: Near Pumerend just outside of Amsterdam, the Nederlands
Size of the group: Between 18-28 participants plus trainers.
Financial Sustainability Needs: Venue, accomodation and catering 350-450 euro, Trainers needs 250-450 euro, Host team (Resilient Uprising) 0-50 euro.
= 600-900 euro per participant for 5 days residential retreat + 6 weeks with one session a week.
Travel expenses is by default covered by participants.
For those who are unable to gift within this range register anyhow and by 26th of November we will access what Scholarship capacity there is.
Program focus
The main workshop space
Testimonials
"I absolutly loved the session yesterday [on Supportive Facilitation]! When I read the first time we will take about framing I was like "I know framings". But then Roni started so simple. With each sentence caring so much meaning. Trying that out in groups was super interesting. How one sentence could get completely different reaktions from different people was really eye opening. Not that it was new intellectual but the group work just made it so real. I absolutly loved it." - Climate Organizer with 5 years of full time organising
“I've learned more about effective facilitation in 12 weeks of practice labs with Roni than in 30 years of facilitating!” - Jocelyn
Why attend?
The local, national and global economic and political elites are killing us.
Our grassroots organisations needs a really healthy and collaborative leadership culture.
We need to be able to create distributed ownership of a DNA of a healthy and courageous culture across our organisations.
We need to have shared methodologies across projects in a global community, so we can easily learn and support each other.
Our most precious resource is the people who show up as volonteers, as the people we are engaging in conversations, and the staff of our organisations. The bread and butter activity is meetings, informal conversations on the phone, online, meetings etc. Our attentivness, care and courage in these conversations is the lifeblood of what we are creating.
The training lead by Roni, Melissa and the Integration Station team is here to support us to settle and deepen our foundation: facilitation and leadership culture.
At the retreat you will also be in community with organisers from across Europe and participants from Africa, North America. The quality of these personal relationships is of immense importance in the times ahead where the stakes and pressure will only increase.
We look forward to go into deep learning, build community and establish relationship with the mentors with Integration Station.
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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