Within • With • World – advisory and learning for social impact work

Most support services fix one level. We work across all three — the person, the team, the system — with one
method that connects them.

People who defend rights, build peace and respond to crises carry a lot: high stakes, tight budgets, and partners and communities who depend on them. corelab helps them design programmes together with the people they serve, build skills that stay long after the training ends, and keep going under pressure without losing what drives them.

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Coaching, facilitation and training for social impact work.
A silhouetted figure floats horizontally above a mountain landscape, as if suspended between earth and sky. The person’s body is rendered as a transparent cut‑out filled with dense evergreen forest, so that trees and branches are visible inside the outline of the torso, arms and legs. The scene behind and around the figure is a wide, open hillside with scattered trees under a cloudy sky in muted grey tones, while the forest texture inside the body appears darker and more detailed. The person’s posture is relaxed, with arms hanging down and one leg slightly bent, suggesting a state of exhaustion, surrender or deep rest rather than active motion. The overall effect is a double‑exposure style composition that visually connects inner landscape and outer environment, evoking themes of burnout, grounding, nature, and the relationship between body, mind and surroundings.

Why now

Donors demand participation. Teams are burning out. Political space is shrinking. These aren’t three separate
problems — they’re one problem seen from three levels. Localisation and decolonisation have moved from
conference language to funding condition, but the team capacity to make them real is rarely funded. The human
cost of rights work is no longer a side issue — it’s why programmes stall and partnerships fracture. And shrinking
civic space demands not just technical competence but the ability to hold a team together when the ground
shifts.
We work across all three levels. That’s the only way to address what’s actually broken.

How we can help

Human‑centred transformation across people, teams, and civil society.

You have a programme idea and a donor deadline. We shape it with you: a clear reading of the context and its conflicts, a theory of change that holds up, and a real plan for how the people affected will take part.
Your partners need skills that last. We listen first, build a curriculum around what they actually face, train their trainers and stay in touch while they put it into practice.
People need to sit at one table, and they don’t agree. We design and facilitate dialogue where every voice counts and decisions still get made.
You want to know what really changed. Participatory evaluations and learning reviews, with recommendations your team can act on straight away.
Your team works close to violence, displacement and loss. We help you build care into the work: do-no-harm and trauma-informed reviews of activities, wellbeing measures for staff, and Psychological First Aid training (non- clinical).
Your staff can’t leave their posts for weeks. Online cohorts, team courses and self-paced learning that fit around the job.

The 3W Framework

WITHIN – Leadership& Resilience

Grounded, values-based leadership for people working on rights and peace
under pressure.

WITH – Dialogue & Conflict Transformation

Trust, honest communication and shared decisions in teams, coalitions and communities.

WORLD – Learning & Dialogue

Human Rights, Peace & Learning. Rights-based programmes, peace and human rights education,
and women’s full part in peace and security.

Rootwork method

3W tells us where to look. rootwork is how we move through the levels. It takes the tools of organisational change — stakeholder mapping, theory of change, risk and resource planning, power analysis — and applies them first to a person’s own working life. Participants map their own stakeholders, their own risks, their own
theory of change. Then they use the same tools in their teams, their coalitions, and the programmes they lead.
The method grew out of corelab’s LeadHerShip programme — a feminist leadership training for women in rights and peace work — and proved so effective that we now use it with mixed teams and whole organisations. It’s in active development: we’re currently piloting it with two groups and refining it based on what we learn.

Why It’s different:

Transformation that unites ethics, care and effectiveness.

Integrates peace and human‑rights principles into leadership, communication, and team culture, rather than treating them as separate project topics.
Combines intercultural competence with trauma‑aware and feminist practice, with specific experience in migration, GBV, and gender equality contexts.
Addresses burnout, conflict, and emotional labour in value‑driven work, using MHPSS‑informed approaches without offering therapy.
Works across levels – individual, relational, and societal – for lasting impact, rooted in 20+ years of NGO, education, and human‑rights‑based experience across Europe.

How we can work together:

Collaboration, not consultancy.

Every organisation and leader has their own rhythm of change.
Together, we co-create pathways that combine structure with care — from one-off facilitation to long-term development partnerships.

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