STREAM

SCI has a long tradition of facilitating learning for peace, solidarity and social change. Besides our volunteer camps and long-term volunteering programmes, non-formal education has become an increasingly important part of our work over the past decade. Across SCI, facilitators and trainers create learning spaces in many different settings —from volunteer camp coordination and preparation or evaluation seminars for long-term volunteers to international trainings and educational projects.

In times of military aggression, the climate crisis, rising right-wing movements and growing global inequalities, strong and resilient peace education is more important than ever. With the annual FLOW-Training (Facilitating, Learning, Organising and Welcoming), SCI has established a space for people who want to develop their facilitation skills while gaining practical insights into sustainable and inclusive project design, coordination and non-formal education.

STREAM stands for Solidarity. Training. Reflection. Exchange across the Movement. Building on the foundation of FLOW, STREAM invites experienced facilitators to take the next step. While FLOW helps facilitators find their flow, STREAM offers a deeper current of learning, centred on a different focus topic each year.
Unlike traditional training, STREAM combines facilitator-led sessions with a participant-driven Open Space. After the first days of shared learning, participants shape the program themselves by facilitating sessions, exchanging ideas and supporting one another. True to its name, STREAM is a space where different streams of experience meet. Facilitators from across SCI come together to explore a common theme, exchange methods and perspectives, and reflect on challenges from their educational practice. At its heart, STREAM is about peer learning and mutual support: participants are encouraged to bring questions, dilemmas and real-life cases from their own work, learn from one another’s experiences, give and receive constructive feedback, and develop new ideas together. In this way, STREAM not only strengthens individual facilitation skills, but also fosters a connected, reflective and supportive community of educators who continue to support one another across the SCI movement.