‘Far In Far Out:

Ukraine – Transforming living history towards a sustainable future

The Ukraine Programme started as CFOR’s Far In Far Out Project, and grew into a long-term Programme.

It arose at the start of the war, in respect to immediate concerns and requests from trainee facilitators in Ukraine, and it will orient and contribute to supporting these facilitators’ contribution in the country for the longer term.

Boris and Neus have been deeply connected with the Ukraine Process Work Training over the past few years, particularly focusing on training and supervision in conflict resolution and facilitating the wisdom and vitality in community. Boris has also been in a coordinating role for the programme, and after the war broke out, he’s been asked by the trainees to step further into this role, coordinating activities and supporting local initiatives and leadership. He is also connected to colleagues from the Processwork programme in Russia, which had been managing and caring for the Ukraine training programme – this naturally calls for respect for limits and sensitive relationships of everyone involved, while caring for and facilitating the overall situation and all involved.

Since the war began, the Ukraine trainees have been organising daily meetings on Zoom, to come together among themselves, to check in, share practical and logistical information, and find emotional support during these traumatic and frightening times. Many of the Ukrainian trainees are professionals, usually in the role of caring for others, and so this support has been a lifeline for them.

The project has evolved from here – to coordinate the opportunity for the Ukraine trainee facilitators to gather for a 5 day retreat in August 2022, in a residential format. The retreat included facilitation training and support, in relation to processing polarisations and the impact of community-wide trauma. The retreat was also an opportunity for in-depth facilitated dialogue among the learning community gathered, to process how they are doing, their role as facilitators in the wider community, and directions forward. (Please see Reports and Articles.)

From here, the Ukraine project continues by way of facilitating next steps and initiatives that arise out of these community interactions, as well as linking with a diversity of practitioners, and organisations in Ukraine.

Boris and Neus are Processwork facilitators and trainers, living in Spain / Catalunya. Boris is from Slovakia and his father lives in Ukraine.

(Read more about them in the ‘Meet the Trainers’ section below.)

 

The Ukraine Process Work Institute and CFOR are very happy to offer a new training program ‘Facilitating Our Future’, as a part of our ongoing programme in Ukraine. 

The course focuses on skill training and practice in facilitating groups and communities, using Processwork and Worldwork skills.

The course is aimed at supporting discovery of sustainable ways to relate to one another, to face differences/diversity and build community.

It is based in our shared experience and deep-seated belief that facilitating personal and collective awareness is an essential key to working with the polarisations that perpetuate conflict, and to finding a sense of possibility and pathways forward.

Participants
The course is for participants interested in learning skills for facilitating, to support their personal awareness, and their professional work in a range of fields – including working in psychological, social, community and political sectors. 

Purpose of the course
Our purpose is to share a sense of community, and to share facilitation methods that are useful in these times of war, personal hardship, and for leadership and work in community.

Processwork and Worldwork methods support us in working with dynamics of personal and community trauma, to transform polarized conflict, and discover the wisdom of community.

The Ukraine Process Work Institute, the Institute of Process Work in Spain, together with CFOR, are very happy to offer a new training program ‘Facilitating Our Future’, as a part of our ongoing programme in Ukraine.

(Please see more about our previous work here.)

The Modules & Caste study evenings

Module 1: Individuation of the facilitator

April 15, 2026

Trainers: Arlene Audergon and Anup Karia

1st Mentoring of mentors meeting

April 22, 2026

Trainers: Arlene Audergon and Anup Karia

 

Module 2: Working in difficult situations, where we get triggered or activated or polarized

May 20, 2026

Trainers: Arlene Audergon and  Anup Karia

2nd Mentoring of mentors meeting

May 27, 2026

Trainers: Arlene Audergon and Anup karia

 

Module 3: Professional positioning

June 22, 2026

Trainers: Neus Andreu Monsech and Boris Sopko

3rtd Mentoring of mentors meeting

June 29, 2026

Trainers: Neus Andreu Monsech and Boris Sopko

 

Module 4: Multiple roles and teamwork / dreaming up

September 9, 2026

Trainers: Arlene Audergon and Anup Karia 

 

Module 5: Steps of preparation and facilitating group process, mapping roles, working with system edges

October 19, 2026

Trainers: Neus Andreu Monsech and Boris Sopko

4th Mentoring of mentors

October 26, 2026 Neus Andreu Mosech and Boris Sopko

The Modules & Case study evenings

Module 1: Deep Democracy Facilitation and Leadership, Inner work of the Facilitator

September 21 – 23, 2024
This seminar will hopefully take place in person and is open for participants who would like to attend only this seminar, or the whole course.

Facilitators: Neus Andreu Monsech and Boris Sopko 

This seminar gathers people who are engaged in their communities, interested in learning facilitation skills, and exploring the role of facilitation in leadership. We will practice facilitating awareness within the systems that we are part of, including the conflicts and trauma we are dealing with, and the potential creativity and directions within us, as individuals, in relationships, and in our organisations and society. 

Module 2:  Relationship Facilitation

November 22 & 23, 2024
Online ZOOM; Training Programme participants only

Facilitators: Arlene Audergon and Anup Karia

Our focus in this module is on facilitating relationship issues, and looking at the interplay of our inner lives, our relationships, and the field dynamics that we are all entangled in – including complex rank dynamics, conflict, and the potential creativity that arises when processing the tensions in relationship. We will focus on learning to facilitate one’s own relationships; facilitating others in relationship; and working with relationship issues in teams and organisations. 

 

Case Study evening 1 

January 30, 2025, 6 pm – 8.30 pm (Ukraine time)

Online ZOOM; Training Programme participants only

Facilitators: Anup Karia, Arlene Audergon, Neus Andreu Monsech, Boris Sopko

These evening sessions are a chance to study how the learning is applied in practice within the contexts you are living and working. 

Module 3: Personal and Collective Trauma

January 31 & February 1, 2025 

Online ZOOM; Training Programme participants only

Facilitators: Arlene Audergon and Anup Karia

This module focuses on facilitating dynamics of personal and collective trauma, including awareness of dynamics surrounding shock and frozen states, and the need for warmth and witnessing. We will also look at skills for facilitating sensitive points and hot spots in conflict, where historic and current trauma is activated. And practice skills and ‘meta-skills’ that make transformation and healing possible. 

 

Module 4: Accountability and Inner work of the Facilitator

February 28 & March 1, 2025 

Online ZOOM; Training Programme participants only

Facilitators: Neus Andreu Monsech and Boris Sopko 

We will focus on facilitating dynamics of conflict resolution related to questions of justice and accountability – rooted in history, and in the momentary interactions. This includes a focus on our development and inner work as facilitators, with awareness of our own position in relation to the field we are facilitating. 

Case Study evening 2 

March 13, 2025 6 pm – 8.30 pm (Ukraine time)

Online ZOOM; Training Programme participants only

Facilitators: Arlene Audergon, Anup Karia, Neus Andreu Monsech, Boris Sopko

These evening sessions are a chance to study how the learning is applied in practice within the contexts you are living and working. 

 

Module 5: Leadership and Facilitation

April 4 & 5, 2025

Online ZOOM; Training Programme participants only

Facilitators: Arlene Audergon and Anup Karia 

In this Module, we will focus on facilitating from inside out. We will practice skills to track awareness of the ‘field’ or systemic processes that are arising in you, as a pathway to finding interventions to support and facilitate others in the outer situation.

Module 6: Facilitating and anchoring moments of insight and transformation 

May 9 & 10, 2025

Online ZOOM; Training Programme participants only

Facilitators: Neus Andreu Monsech, Boris Sopko, Anup Karia and Arlene Audergon 

In this module, we will focus on the facilitation skills and meta-skills involved needed to anchor and appreciate shifts and transformation, and to frame the ongoing work needed. We will anchor learning from the course until now, and its application to work in community in different sectors.

Case Study evening 3 

June 5, 2025   6 pm – 8:30 pm (Ukraine time) 

Online ZOOM; Training Programme participants only

Facilitators: Arlene Audergon, Anup Karia, Neus Andreu Monsech, Boris Sopko

These evening sessions are a chance to study how the learning is applied in practice within the contexts you are living and working. 

Module 7:  Facilitating our Future in Community 

July 26 – 28, 2025 

This seminar will hopefully take place in person and is open for participants who would like to attend only this seminar, or the whole course.

Facilitators: Neus Andreu Monsech and Boris Sopko   

A chance to come together, to learn and practice Worldwork facilitation skills, and to bring to the table, and facilitate in-depth dialogue about the central issues that are of deep concern in community, in respect to recovery and building pathways to the future. 

Neus Andreu Monsech  

Neus has a Law degree from the University of Barcelona and she’s been a Process Work Diplomate since 2018. She co-founded the Process Work formal training in Spain/Catalunya in 2010. Neus also co-founded the organization Fil a l’agulla, SCCL in 2009. The organisation offers services to schools, public administration, organizations, communities, individuals and couples to support processes of change and transformation, particularly when systems or people are in crisis. Everyone in Fil a l’agulla is trained in process work, feminism and restorative justice, and have become over the years a reference in Catalunya. At this moment she is the Director of Fil a l’agulla, and she supports other organizations in moments of change and facilitate processes of reparation connected with gender violence. Neus is also engaged in processing history as a pathway of creating a more sustainable future in different parts of the world.

Boris Sopko

Boris is originally a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with a private practice registered in Slovakia. Over the last decade he felt a need to work on the deep personal experiences within group settings and in this way address the wider systemic level of processes emerging as difficulties in individuals.

Boris works internationally in Spain, Slovakia, Greece, Ukraine, and Russia. For the last 10 years, he has been based in Barcelona /Catalunya, Spain.  The main areas of focus of his work are as teacher, supervisor, and mentor within Diploma trainings in Process Work. The field of mental health, working with gender dynamics, and with collective and transgenerational trauma are very close to his heart.

Arlene Audergon, Ph.D

Arlene, co-founder of CFOR, is interested in the role of awareness and consciousness in individual and collective change, such that individuals, organisations and whole communities can access their innate capacity to go beneath polarities, support diversity and find creative solutions to societal problems, and for post-war conflict resolution and violence prevention.  She has facilitated over many years in communities dealing with violent conflict in the Balkans and Rwanda, as well as in the UK, Europe, and USA, focusing on conflict resolution, community trauma and recovery. Arlene is author of ‘The War Hotel: Psychological Dynamics in Violent Conflict’ (Wiley, 2005); ‘Daring to Dream’, in Hart B (Ed.) ‘Trauma and Peace-building’ (University Press of America 2007); ‘Transforming Conflict into Community’, chapter in Psychotherapy and Politics, Totton, (Ed.), (Open University Press 2005); and several articles in the areas of collective trauma, conflict resolution, Process Work, mental health, and  theatre.  Arlene has also developed methods of applying Process Work to theatre, working with actors, musicians, improvisers, puppeteers, directors and writers. Arlene teaches Process Work in the UK (RSPOPUK) and internationally, supervises faculty and students, and enjoys her consultation work and private practice.

Anup Karia

Anup is a facilitator, psychotherapist and consultant supporting individuals, groups and organisations to discover their wholeness and creativity. He has a deep passion and calling in seeking what lies beyond the boundaries of our everyday lives and limitations, and in discovering and engaging with diversity issues that both enrich and trouble us as individuals and communities.

He has worked for many years in the fields of trauma, mental health, HIV/AIDS and with refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK. He pioneered one of the first multi-cultural counselling programmes for gay/bisexual men from Black and Asian communities in London.

Anup teaches Processwork internationally and consults with organisations around leadership, conflict facilitation and change. He works with issues of racism, casteism, homophobia, gender and class in UK and internationally. 

He was a co-director of Processwork UK for many years, and is currently senior faculty member of both ProcessworkUK and IPOP (Processwork programme in Czech Republic) and is co-founder of Asta Facilitation.

He was born in post-colonial Kenya and lives in London.