Programmes Overview

If you are interested in programmes that are not currently scheduled, or in commissioning a specific programme for your own organisation or situation, or in suggesting potential donors or anything else, please write to us in the Comments section of the ‘Contact Us’ page.

In all of the programmes offered by The Proteus Initiative, we target more experienced practitioners - people who have been practising in various areas of social and ecological renewal, of the helping professions, of leadership in myriad situations ... and who have questions which have emerged over time and which they would like to address. Questions about the nature and quality of their practice and their own processes of development, and questions concerning the nature of those with whom they are working. Questions prompted by their own practice and by what they are able and unable to see. Our programmes are not ‘beginners’ programmes’ but are grounded in practitioners’ own sense of practice and ongoing enquiry.

Programmes are offered for a wide but specific range of participants:

• leaders, managers, teachers, community organisers, development workers and social activists, programme officers, policy analysts, donors;
• development consultants (internal or external helpers to practitioners and organisations in specific settings);
• those involved in the helping and healing professions;
• those involved in questions of sustainable development;
• all those who are engaged in social situations - smaller or larger - and are endeavouring to facilitate fundamental change; and
• all those organisations focused on any aspect of social transformation and renewal.

Some programmes focus on specific groups of individuals working in a specific terrain, others are open to all of those mentioned above. Some are offered at the Towerland Wilderness Centre, others may be run in different locations, globally. Some are offered by Proteus alone, others in association with like-minded practitioners and organisations. Particular groups, organisations or associations may commission specific programmes in response to their own needs.

For descriptions of current and envisaged programmes, see Programmes Descriptions.