This project is funded through Derry City and Strabane District Council’s PEACEPLUS Local Co-Designed Action Plan and supported by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) PEACEPLUS.
About the programme
Creative guided
facilitation.
LEADER is a six-week programme for women in Derry, combining practical experience in creative guided facilitation with shared learning and personal storytelling.
Verbal’s trained facilitators help participants understand and experience guided reading, preparing them to lead sessions within peacebuilding and community engagement settings.
Creative writing gives each participant space to share her story, learn about other lives and traditions, build mutual respect and question assumptions.
What participants will gain
What participants
will gain.
The programme combines guided reading experience, creative facilitation, creative writing and shared learning.
01
Connection
Develop friendships by learning about one another’s traditions, communities, values and belief systems.
02
Facilitation skills
Develop practical skills in creative guided facilitation.
03
Facilitation experience
Gain the understanding and practical experience to lead guided reading sessions.
04
Your own story
Use creative writing to tell your story and hear the experiences of others.
Inside a session
Inside a
LEADER session.
Guided reading, shared discussion and creative writing make each session practical, participative and rooted in lived experience.
“There’s so much energy and resonance among the group.”
Participant voices
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It’s great hearing what the other women have to say – there’s so much energy and resonance among the group.
Participant • Waterside Women’s Group
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Watching the group’s confidence and dynamics grow from week to week was wonderful. The skills are useful far beyond the workshops.
Facilitator • Waterside Women’s Group
Get in touch
Programme
information.
For further information about LEADER, contact one of our friendly staff.
