Resilient Presence: a path to renewal and leadership — 8-week online program for mediators in Ukraine

In wartime, mediators hold space for others—often at the cost of their own resources. Resilient Presence is an 8-week online program designed to help you restore inner balance, strengthen resilience and leadership, and sustain healing processes in communities.

About the program

• Trainer: Dr. Lori Leyden (USA), PhD, MBA — internationally recognized expert in trauma healing and humanitarian leadership, founder of Create Global Healing.
• Format: online, with Ukrainian interpretation.
• Duration: 8 weeks.

What you will gain

• Reduction of stress and trauma symptoms through somatic, science-based practices.
• Development of personal resilience and a stronger Heart–Brain–Body Connection.
• Presence-based leadership skills to support sustained community healing.
• Certificate upon completion.

Schedule (7:30 PM Kyiv time)

14 Oct, 21 Oct; 4, 11, 18, 25 Nov; 2, 9 Dec.

How to join

• Registration & details: https://mediation.ua/navchannya/resilient-presence
• Selection: results will be emailed the day before the start. Special focus on your motivation to share knowledge afterwards (clear plans and steps).

Organiser & support

Organised by the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation within the project “CONSENT: strengthening the role of ADR in Ukraine with a focus on mediation”, implemented with financial support from the European Union.