In the midst of war, over 50 Ukrainian facilitators and community leaders are gathering to train in vital skills to support them in their work with communities dealing with trauma, conflict, and profound challenges. 



This is our 'Facilitating Our Future' Training Programme, facilitated by Boris Sopko, Neus Andreu Monsech, Anup Karia, and Arlene Audergon - designed and implemented by CFOR in collaboration with the Ukraine Process Work Institute.


This journey began at the start of the war, when Ukrainian Process Work trainee facilitators – many deeply affected by the conflict while supporting others – reached out for support. What started as online meetings to process shock and trauma evolved into a 5-day residential seminar in late summer 2022, led by Boris Sopko and Neus Andreu Monsech with CFOR's support. The success and impact of this initial gathering led to the development of our current comprehensive training programme, combining in-person modules, online sessions, study evenings, and mentoring.


In Autumn 2024, participants came together for the first module of our new programme, in-person, and in a safe region of Ukraine. With the escalating war, it meant the world to everyone to be able to gather and learn together again. In our next online modules, we were able to continue working extremely deeply together, bringing a profound sense of meaning and possibility. We are touched to be able to witness how much it matters to the participants that they are able to take part in this training, while grappling with hardship upon hardship, then power cuts on top of it all, and some even connecting from the front lines.

Advanced Ukrainian Process Work students are both participating in the course and assisting, mentoring other participants. The feedback has been extremely strong about the impact of the training on participants' lives and work in their communities, whether as therapists, community leaders, or facilitators.

The training focuses on Processwork and Worldwork methods for:

* Facilitating in relationships, organisations, and communities grappling with the impact of conflict and violence.

* Practicing inner work, useful for facilitators to work with their own personal and family situations, and to stay present when facilitating others in their communities.

* Working with personal and community-wide trauma.

* Accessing and facilitating the wisdom within communities and finding pathways forward in seemingly impossible situations
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Your support directly strengthens a needed and growing network of community facilitators who are making a real difference every day in Ukraine, during the current crisis and for the future.

For more information: http://www.cfor.info/facilitating-our-future-facilitation-training-in-ukraine/

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