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CFOR facilitates and trains facilitators. Our goal is
‘a facilitator at every table’, from the kitchen to the negotiating table. When people can facilitate awareness of the polarized dynamics and violence they suffer from, community becomes a protective and creative force, that prevents violence and transforms the future.

Our work:

• BALKANS: In partnership with Assoc ‘Mi’, UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) and the EU, large forums in Croatia link psychosocial and economic recovery, and leadership training in the areas hit hardest by war. Participants are from all ethnicities or nationalities from a wide network of civil society organizations and local authorities. In tandem with UNHCR, we’re also developing a model for the wider Balkan region.
• EUROPE MATTERS: Supported by the EU, focuses on awareness and facilitation needed to transform Europe’s violent history towards thriving multicultural societies.
• SEEDS: Supported by the EU, focuses on bringing one’s deepest dreams to fulfillment, recognizing the difference each individual and organization makes.
• FACILITATION FOR LEADERS: CFOR offers an annual 5 module training programme in London.
• CONSULTATION/ TRAINING: CFOR also does inhouse training and consultation in International organisations.

The Deep Democracy Institute provides worldwide diverse and multidimensional Leadership Training Programs. They are designed to teach skills and attitudes to unfold the potentials of organizations, teams, and communities.

Leadership development is a key component of sustainable development and stability globally. This perspective applies globally and parallels advances in organizational leadership in Washington, Berlin, Portland, Sydney, Warsaw, Kyiv, Sierra Leone, Moscow and other areas in which the leaders of the Deep Democracy Institute are active.

Organizational concepts are changing in the business world and other sectors of society. Leadership is no longer viewed as a static framework in which one person dictates the actions of the organization. It is a complex collaborative process that requires well trained, adaptive, and skilled individuals throughout the organization. Coaching and entrepreneurial skills are important aspects of developing creative social, business, and political solutions that can lead the way towards psychologically, emotionally, and politically sustainable development.

GPI provides conflict facilitation trainings, conducts worldwork seminars, and organizes town meetings providing public forums to bring opposing groups together to address the conflicts between them, serving a vision of building sustainable communities based on deep democracy.

VFEW hosts trainings and practices in the facilitation of intensely polarized issues and organizes forums where individuals and groups from a broad perspective of views, backgrounds, and experiences can interact.

VFEW began because of a belief that there is a meaningful connection between trauma and leadership, between the things that have happened to us and the directions that our lives take, and a belief that we need the leadership of all to grow as a nation. This approach, based on process oriented psychology and Deep Democracy, is not psychotherapy. It is a direction change process that comes from following yourself.

Healing from trauma, we believe, comes from finding a meaningful way to use our experiences to change the world that is at least as strong as the traumas we have experienced. People are powerful, but identifying with and learning to use power isn't easy to do, especially in the midst of extreme experiences.