Collaborative Leadership
Root down
to rise up
Enabling leaderful organisations
Movements need more than courage. They need strategy, vision, and resilient leadership. Enter the Resilient Uprising leadership programs.
Who?
What?
When?
Aimed at 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 retreat followed by 6 follow up sessions that support expanding the learning through your organisation.
How?
For 2026 the programme will cover Supportive Facilitation
and Collaborative Leadership, then Strategic Leadership.
Intro workshops in April and May 2026
5-11th of July, south Germany
Collaborative Leadership July 2026 in Germany - Sign up to join us
You're invited to join our next Collaborative Leadership intensive!
In January 2026 Resilient Uprising and Integration Station hosted our first 5 day intensive outside of Amsterdam. Our 25 international participants gave us strong and clear feedback: we need this kind of training to build resilient movements for nonviolent activism. Everyone expressed interest in doing it again and inviting more people. So we are!
The program will start at 9:00 on 06 July and end on 10 July.
We ask that you arrive on 05 July and stay for the whole program. Please wait for the detailed schedule before booking your travel. Thank you :)
Please register here if you want to join:
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.
Residential Retreat & post-retreat 6 weeks
Collaborative Leadership
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!
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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