Active Hope Training
Active Hope Training
4 online sessions: Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 21 & Wednesday 22 September
9.30am – 12 midday each day
Through this 4-part workshop participants will engage with the process of “Active hope”, developed by environmental activist Joanna Macy. This process supports people who are engaged with global justice issues to continue to have hope and take action, while addressing the sometimes overwhelming feelings that arise. The workshop will be experiential, with opportunities to connect with yourself, and others in a supportive online environment. Participants will also gain tools and approaches that can be used both at a personal level, and with groups. Attendance at all 4 sessions is important as each will cover a different topic related to Active Hope.
The seminar will be facilitated by Chriszine Backhouse and Eimear McNally of Creativity & Change, a programme of Crawford College of Art & Design, that nurtures change-makers and supports people to imagine and create a better world. Through her teaching and practice, Chriszine explores the intersection between creativity, community and the environment. She has been involved in Active Hope restoration work since 2008. For the last four years, she has integrated this approach into the Creativity and Change programme at MTU, leading students and workshop participants through “the work that reconnects”. Eimear works as a facilitator in the field of creative activism and transformative learning where she uses visual facilitation to help groups explore complex global and local justice issues. She has been involved in Creativity & Change in various ways since 2009. She is a co-founder of the all-Ireland network of visual practitioners, Drawesome, and a member of the International Forum for Visual Practitioners.
Cost to attend all 4 sessions:
- IDEA members: €50.00
- Non-members: €100.00
Deadline for registration is Wednesday, 08 September.
If you have any questions please contact us.
Last week, IDEA hosted the second webinar from our 2025 series, ‘Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education, ' focusing on Palestine. If you missed out, you can watch the full video below!
At the end of March, IDEA staff and representatives from three IDEA members travelled to Riga, Latvia, for a two-day event marking the launch of IDEA’s Erasmus+ project with our partner LAPAS (Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation) focused on the IDEA Code of Good Practice The project’s core objective is to enhance the quality of global citizenship education (GCE) at local , national and European levels. Central to this work is the creation of a Code of Good Practice for Latvia based on learning from the IDEA Code that will support Latvian GCE practitioners, including teachers, NGOs, youth workers and others, by fostering a common understanding and approach to GCE. This represents the first piloting of the IDEA Code in an international context. The new IDEA task group for the project, made up of Code members, alongside IDEA staff, are supporting LAPAS members to adapt the Code for the Latvian national context by sharing our own experiences and learnings from the Code and GCE in Ireland. The event in Riga was the first in-person gathering of the project, bringing together LAPAS and IDEA members. This face-to-face interaction allowed us to begin the process of knowledge exchange, and mutual learning which will spread the Code’s reach and strengthen our GCE practice. IDEA was represented in Riga by Dean Oke (CDYS (Cloyne Diocesan Youth Service), Georgina Eastaugh (Concern Worldwide) and Claire Glavey (Global Village), alongside IDEA staff Elaine and Aine.
06 May 10.30am – 4.30pm
IDEA offices, 6 Gardiner Row
