🌿 Peaceful Tools for Navigating Toxic Communication
A supportive training series for peace activists and human rights defenders, offering practical tools to navigate challenging communication dynamics (from inner self-talk to external power structures) while preserving energy, well-being, and collective strength.
Facilitator: Esset Samatova – Mental Health and Resilience Expert, Sean MacBride Peace Prize Laureate�
Format: Tools-focused, trauma-informed, grounded in real activist experiences�
Language: English�
Schedule: Every Thursday (September 18, 25, October 2, 9)�Duration: 90 minutes per session
Registration:
https://bit.ly/PeaceCommsTools
🔍 Session Overview
✅ Session 1. Rebuilding the inner voice�Explore how internal self-pressure and doubt can affect resilience and learn practices to restore confidence and self-worth.
✅ Session 2. Strengthening peer connections�Gently unpack common tensions in activist teams and practice tools for trust, clarity, and mutual support.
✅ Session 3. Navigating external pressures�Understand how to respond to challenging dynamics with authorities, donors, and decision-makers with grounded influence and integrity.
✅ Session 4. Holding boundaries with care�Explore how to stay present and compassionate with communities while protecting your capacity, energy, and values.
💖 Program Benefits
- Grounded, applicable tools to navigate complex communication
- Strengthened personal resilience and sense of safety
- Stronger activist teams and more sustainable collective work
- Supports IPB’s mission of gender-responsive peace education
By joining this course, you also contribute to IPB’s work for peace and sustainable disarmament.
🎁 Participation Packages:
💶 Basic (€30): Live access to all 4 sessions
📚 Standard (€50): + session recordings & tool summaries
🌟 Premium (€80): + individual feedback & certificate
💖 Solidarity Options available
— Solidarity A – Any amount: “I want to support another participant.”�Your contribution helps someone else access the course.
- Solidarity B – Free access with scholarship: “I’d like to request a scholarship.”�Limited scholarships are available.
📩 Register now (bit.ly/PeaceCommsTools) & make your payment:
👉 PayPal:
https://bit.ly/paypal-peacecommscourse
📨 Then email your receipt to
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Full details:
https://ipb.org/peace-education/toxic-communication-in-activist-realities/