Facilitation for Change

Steps has long been at the forefront of facilitation for change. Our approach to capacity development is grounded in participatory and interactive methods, ensuring that participants are actively engaged in the learning process. Whether in meetings, workshops, or conferences, we create dynamic, collaborative environments. Our team of diverse professionals tailors facilitation to meet each partner’s needs effectively. This includes: 

  • Design and facilitate capacity development workshops, through a tailored approach customizing facilitation methods and content to align with the specific goals, objectives, and needs of partners and participants.

  • Ensure collaborative learning environments by creating an atmosphere of trust, openness, and mutual respect where participants feel comfortable sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of facilitation efforts through feedback mechanisms and incorporating lessons learned to enhance future capacity development initiatives.

Capacity Development
Collaboration
Quality assurance
Empowerment
Learning by Doing

Facilitating dialogue sessions for women groups working on peace building

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Facilitating Women Empowerment Workshops

Facilitating Women Take the Lead workshops

Facilitating Memory of Civil War workshops with women groups

Facilitating of National Strategy for PCVE

FTN Launch

Facilitating the launch of Future Together project

Working with Adolescents in Conflict Settings

A training and coaching program for frontline staff working with adolescents. Steps designed and delivered the workshop for frontline staff and partners in four countries: Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon. In addition to adapting the content and tools to fit online modality and delivering it remotely.

A project implemented in partnership with Save the Children. 

Women Take the Lead

Designing and facilitating a series of workshops over the course of five years around communication skills, transformational leadership, dialogue, conflict management, transitional justice with a gender perspective, negotiation and mediation, etc.

A project implemented in partnership with Women Now, elbarlament and Choose Love.

Dealing with the Past

Over the past eight years, Steps has been extensively engaged in developing materials and training different groups on dealing with the past, the memory of the civil war, with Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) specialists, history teachers, NGO activists and youth.

Each year, Steps facilitates three cycles on Memory of War for young people from Lebanon. A project in partnership with forumZFD.

Active Citizens

Steps was engaged in different interventions around Active Citizenship, with its core team members being Master and National trainers on Active Citizens toolkit. The experience varies from designing and delivering facilitators development workshops, designing and facilitating the networking event for British Council partners from different countries in the MENA region, Africa, Europe and the UK, designing and training facilitators from Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, Algeria, Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco, and Yemen on the Active Citizens toolkit.

A project implemented in partnership with the British Council across many years.

Dialogue Facilitation for Women Groups on Reconciliation and Peacebuilding

Steps designed and facilitated 135 dialogue sessions for 250 women community members in Aarsal, Al Qaa Baalback, Tripoli, Aakar, Hasbayya, Khayzaran, Damour, Ein Remeneh, Cheyyah, Haret Naemeh, Batloun, and Mazraat Chouf.

A project implemented in partnership with UN Women, KAFA and Peace Labs.

Delivering Empowerment Workshops for Women

Promoting and delivering workshops for disenfranchised women in Lebanon, as part of the global program IMAGINE, designed to empower women in challenging life circumstances to envision and create new possibilities for their life, family and community.

Facilitation of National Strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism

Steps was part of the national team of facilitators for the different pillars of the national strategy that was implemented over the course of one year.

Future Together Now ll Project

Designing and facilitating the launching of the project with partner organizations, evaluation, planning of second phase, documentation of workshops and the closure of the project over the course of two years.

A project implemented in partnership with forumZFD.

An interactive "learning-by-doing" approach to oral history. It highlights oral history's role in conflict transformation by capturing diverse voices, documenting narratives, and promoting understanding about the past.

A project in partnership with forumZFD.

Steps was responsible for:

  • Leading and facilitating the review process of the guide, including facilitating peer review workshops, and setting the knowledge development process with the team involved.

  • Co-developing the content alongside the team involved, with a special focus on conflict transformation.

  • Designing the website and ensuring accessibility and user-friendliness.

Check out the website Reimagine the Past to access the guide and learn more about the transformative power of oral history.

A participatory and discovery-based toolkit for volunteers, activists, teachers, or anyone interested to know more about conflict transformation and the culture of non-violence. The aim is to make conflict transformation concepts and applications accessible to people in different communities. 

A project in partnership with forumZFD.

Steps was responsible for:

  • Updating the content and activities of the previous toolkit, including a review process with those who implemented the toolkit over the years.

  • Designing the toolkit in a visually engaging and user-friendly way.

Steps continues to facilitate yearly Eye not for an Eye workshops for activists, educators, and facilitators engaged within their communities.

A guide that focuses on knowledge and essential tools for community mediation, aspiring to be a reference for peace building activists, and to present the Syrian experience as one in the area of mediation within local frameworks. 

A project in partnership with Mobaderoon and Swiss Peace.

Steps was responsible for:

  • Collecting and presenting mediation stories from community activists who lived through conflict and mediation in their environments.

  • Presenting the results and conclusions of a critical review of different mediation schools and references, and an attempt to add a new theory of change specific to this guide, based on a transformative approach and theory of human needs and non-violent communication. 

An interactive and engaging resource designed for animators to work on conflict transformation and peace education with children during summer camps and informal activities. Until 2025, around 30 organizations in Lebanon have been trained on Hawli w Hawaleye and implement it with children from their communities. 

A project in partnership with forumZFD.

Steps was responsible for:

  • Creating interactive activities for children aged 7 to 12, fostering personal growth, non-violent communication, conflict transformation skills required to cope with conflict, and play and sing during activities. 

  • Creating an Animators Development Toolkit to enhance animators’ skills in conflict transformation, team dynamics, and understanding children's’ age group dynamics and contexts.

  • Facilitating the learning journey for groups, starting with the Animators Development Workshop (5 days), then HwH Activities Workshop (3 days), and shadowing the teams implementing HwH to support them.

Steps continues to facilitate yearly Hawli w Hawaleye learning journeys to groups and organizations working with children.