ULEX training in Leaderful Organising

View from ULEX’s Eroles training centre

November 2025, ACElab postdoctoral fellow Kate Rich attended the ULEX Leaderful Organising intensive training programme in Eroles, Spain. The training centred on practices and understandings for more effective distribution of power and leadership in social movements, organisations and groups that are working to achieve structural transformation and positive social-ecological change.
 
The programme aimed to bring together the best aspects of traditional hierarchical leadership structures with the best aspects of more horizontal ways of organising, along with a critique of each. The idea of leaderfulness draws on expanded notions of leadership, such as the idea of “group-centred leadership” articulated by Ella Baker, who was critical of a leadership style which tends to centralise power, decision making and responsibility for meaningful action in a single leader. The training provided a valuable reflective space for Kate’s research in FRICTIONS, working with small, change-oriented cultural organisations around Europe.
 

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