First Residential Retreat & post-retreat 6 weeks
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 or Sunday morning 18th of January
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.
Gift Economy, trainers & organizing team
By the 26th of November we will start assessing how to meet the scholarship applications. Until the full confirmation of attending the training can be done via these links below. From 600 euro and upwards. For those who are able to gift more then the 600 euro this will enable others who need scholarship to join.
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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