Holistic Security

Practitioner Training "Holistic Security" (English speaking)

Objectives
Participants are able
• to carry out in-depth risk and context analysis to improve their personal and organisational security practices
• to create basic security plans and protocols for common or high-risk aspects of their work and activism
• to know and choose secure practices and tools according to their own situation and capacity

Activists and peace workers face many risks depending on their contexts. This training combines physical, psychosocial and digital elements of security and care with security planning and management into an integrated approach. It will stimulate participants to think critically and act to improve the security of themselves, their communities, and families with the objective of “well-being in action”.

Based on the Holistic Security Approach, this training enables participants to reframe security into community-care and self-care within their contexts, collectives and organisations to face different forms of repression and violence.

Date
23. - 27.02.2026

Trainers
Marianne Koch
is a trainer, facilitator and mediator. She has been active in social movements and has many years of experience in facilitating political groups as well as in civil disobedience. Furthermore she works on nonviolence and holistic security.

Peter Steudtner
is a trainer in nonviolent conflict transformation and a photographer / filmmaker. His training focus lies on holistic security for peace, human and environmental rights activists and on the Do No Harm-approach. Currently he is a Digital Integrity Fellow at HIVOS / DD.

More info on training format, costs and application
Go directly to the application form for February-March 2026