Overview

F4F is a programme created in 1993 that develops people through encouraging them to search for values-centred decision making in personal and professional life whilst creating positive change in their communities and countries. Originally developed for Central and East Europe, its main activity is still in that region.

• It runs courses that bring a different perspective to participant's attitudes and thoughts, inspiring vision and purpose. Follow-up activities build up local teams to the point where they can initiate and sustain their own projects to transform their societies.
• F4F courses are often run at the request of other organisations and NGOs in order to develop values-based leadership, transparency in professional life and inter-cultural dialogue.
• F4F takes a 10 to 20 year view by working with young people such as students and young politicians, some of whom will become leaders in the future and will be able to shape the political, social and organizational culture around them.
• The programme has inspired the formation of a network of groups and individuals who share the same values and care about spiritual growth and ethical development on an individual, regional, and international level.

International organisation Foundations for Freedom is happy to announce start of a new programme Ukrainian Action (UA) 2010 – Healing the Past

15 representatives with 5 facilitators from communities with different past, various regional, religious, language and political Ukrainian backgrounds with the common aim to heal the wounds of past in Ukraine will take part in the intensive 6 week program, which consists of: living and travelling together, sharing personal life stories, listening to the past experience and initiatives for healing and reconciliation from hosts and speakers, receiving diverse training on conflict resolution, healing, accepting others; reflecting on Ukrainian and personal past, present and future, taking part in dialogues, working with archives, team-work presentations of personal change and experience, recording an inspiring and challenging video on the course of the program, giving interviews to media, presenting their experience and stories of change at the conferences in Caux Conference Centre, Switzerland www.caux.ch . The project is expected to start a series of programs under the common title “Ukrainian Action” and one specific subtitle each year.

Read about the program in English here

Read about the program in Russian here (Читайте о программе по-русски здесь)