Lisa (Yelyzaveta) Glybchenko

I have 10 years of experience in facilitation, which theme-wise is situated at the intersection of design, visual art-making, digital technologies, peacebuilding and community development. I have facilitated experiences of both own design and designed by others, both online and offline. On-site, I have facilitated in about 15 countries.

My most significant facilitation experiences revolve around my entrepreneurial venture Color Up Peace. Color Up Peace, which I founded in 2016, works at the intersection of artmaking and technology to leverage artistic innovation as a tool of futures design in conflict-affected areas. From a student initiative at the American University in Bulgaria, Color Up Peacehas grown to have projects/programs not only in Ukraine (my home country), but in about 15 other countries (e.g. Israel-Palestine and Kenya) attracting participation from around 30 countries. With the financial assistance of Tampere City(Finland) and The Nordic Culture Point / Nordic Council of Ministers, I created a special 13-month-long support program for Ukrainians who relocated to Finland during Russia’s 2022-2026 full-scale war against Ukraine. (The program later scaled to Iceland and the Faroe Islands). I collaborated with the online education platform Claned to create an ed-tech piece – a virtual workshop series, designed and facilitated by me, in English and Ukrainian to support war-affected people.

My latest facilitation experience has been unfolding within the world-wide Bosch Alumni Network, based at the International Alumni Center gGmbH (iac Berlin). I had proposed to create an Impact Field focusing on futures thinking, which I now lead, facilitating capacity- and community-building experiences for the members of the Bosch Alumni Network. I also received a grant to implement my originally designed project “Futures Thinking in Conflict-Affected Contexts” to design and facilitate a learning journey for the Bosch Alumni network, which attracted alumni from more than 20 countries. The learning journey was based on my original award-winning research and digital media work, built on the premise that traditional futures and forecasting methodologies can be harmful in conflict-affected contexts since they were designed in and for other environments.

See here my artistic portfolio.

Experience

Languages: English, French, German, Ukrainian

Event Types: Accelerator, Bootcamp, Conference, Festival, Hackathon, Hybrid, Offline, Panel, Summit, Training, Workshop

Audiences: Children (0–12 y/o), External Stakeholder, Internal Stakeholders, Older adults (65+), Private Sector, Public Sector, Teens (13–19 y/o), Third or Fourth Sector, Young adults (20–35 y/o)

Certificates: CXC Online Facilitation Training  CXC In-Person Facilitation Training

Thematic Areas

• Futures Thinking, Futures Design, Forecasting
• Creative Approaches to Community Building, Peace and Security, Democracy
• Tech-Aided Visual Design
• Design and Urban Development
• Design Thinking
• Entrepreneurship
• Visual Facilitation
• Graphic Recording and Illustration in Contexts of Facilitation