Flow

PROJECT DURATION

Open

FLOW is a training program designed to develop facilitation skills in non-formal education settings while offering valuable insights into sustainable and inclusive project design and management. Unlike purely theoretical trainings, FLOW provides you with the opportunity to engage in real projects after the program, ensuring that you can apply what you’ve learned in practical, impactful ways. Effective and sustainable projects require skilled trainers to lead them successfully. Many activists within the peace movement aspire to become trainers and organisers of educational initiatives that foster a culture of peace. To support this goal, the International Secretariat of SCI organises an annual Training of Trainers with a special emphasis on peace education and inclusion.

The objectives

Empower participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively engage in peace education.

Provide (future) youth workers with new inspirations and perspectives for peace education to get in a good flow while initiating, organizing and managing educational projects.

Share best practices and institutional frameworks for developing and managing peace education initiatives, tailored to the needs of young participants (including Project Management and EU fundings).

Reflect on how power dynamics can be reproduced in project organization, and explore ways to integrate peace values into all levels of social movements and educational project planning.

Enhance the quality of non-formal education tools and resources for use in future events, training courses, seminars, and meetings.

What past FLOWers say

FLOW was an amazing opportunity to learn and to practice different dynamics on facilitation skills and what’s needed from a trainer or a facilitator in the training room!

Alaa

It helped me recognize my natural talents and nurtured skills I wanted to gain. As a trainer, there is no value you can put on confidence in who you are and what you do.

Monica

FLOW helped me a lot in feeling more confident in my skills and knowing which aspects are part of being a trainer. It was also very sweet to meet so many others through this experience. A lot of us have stayed in touch ever since.

Deno

Recent Updates

After a successful 2024 edition, we have decided to turn FLOW into an annual initiative. FLOW 2025 was held from April 22nd to 28th, near Innsbruck, Austria. The 7-day in-person training (including arrival and departure days) was hosted by SCI Austria, with financial support from the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) Programme of the European Commission.

Stay tuned for FLOW 2026!

FLOW 2021

Online Preparation Period

January 2021

Participants were invited to participate in the online course “Peace in Practice”. A padlet was created for the training sessions with different resources and participant were invited to get to know each other before the start of the training.

Online training course

March 2021

The training was held online and it included 5 basic elements: Welcoming, Introduction, Group building, Basics of being a Trainer, Power Structures in Educational Activities, Project Planning and Evaluation & Reflection. The training also taught participants how to run online projects themselves. So, it consisted of 3 working days, 6 evening sessions, and several individual tasks. A large Padlet resource library and interactive space was also available to participants.

Follow-up Period

June 2021

In the follow-up period until June 2021, each participant was encouraged to run a workshop with their organisation. The planning of the workshops, as well as other follow-up projects, was started during the time of the training itself and we encouraged participants to work on it as much in the 4 weeks of the training as possible. During the follow-up phase, there was also the possibility to get feedback from the project team as well as from other participants in a peer-review process.

Supporters

FLOW 2025  is financially supported by the CERV programme of the European Union.
The previous editions were supported by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union.