Atlantic Forum Trainings.
Whether you are looking to improve your knowledge and skills in public speaking, negotiations, international relations or disinformation, Atlantic Forum offers a wide variety of training offers.
The adaptive training offered at the Atlantic Forum Academy is tailored to anyone’s needs. They can be booked on their own, for one day or multiple sessions, or as a set of modules. Atlantic Forum trainers are experienced in matters of international relations, international security, NATO history, and missions, and have been trained by Clingendael - the Netherlands Institute of International Relations.
Public Speaking.
Public speaking is a vital skill, no matter your studies or your career path. Whether you have to defend your thesis, give a training, or pitch a product; feeling confident speaking in front of a group will help your message get across. Persuasive public speaking is a skill that you can learn and that takes practice. Atlantic Forum aims to provide motivated students and young professionals with the opportunity to develop themselves in a safe but challenging group environment. The key areas discussed during the training are body language, use of voice, structure, rhetoric, and framing while practicing speaking styles as presenting, debating and pitching.
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Pre-Bunking.
Along with other actors within the international community, NATO has long referred to disinformation as one of the most significant security threats of our time. Contrary to our expectations from other, more traditional security threats, the problem of disinformation affects more than just the military. Instead, regular citizens in civic society are the most vulnerable to the dangers posed by today’s disinformation challenge. Therefore, precisely understanding and engaging the information environment that our society is located is of immense importance for becoming a critical and disinformation-immune thinkers. More than ever, education has a key role to play in raising a generation with strong skills in media literacy. Atlantic Forum offers a program that sensitizes course participants to the dangers of disinformation and aims to build disinformation resilience through a unique gamification training.
Negotiation Training.
Everyday we negotiate is a common catch phrase, but if we did, then surely we wouldn't be anxious about it - yet many people are. A negotiation requires movement and not closed and rigid positions. An inflexible negotiator who only makes a single proposal risks blocking the negotiation. Nobody likes to be told “take it or leave it”. Phrases like “It´s not negotiable” is simply slamming the door on the others face. And nobody likes to be told “no”. A conscious negotiator opens doors, windows, trapdoors, hatches and holes, not closes them. And if a door is closed they open another. This training focusses on learning the fundamental elements of a good negotiation and builds forward on the principle of win-win, meaning a careful exploration of all parties’ needs and a focus on mutual interests and benefits rather than position and power.
Crisis and Conflict Scenarios.
This training promotes an experiential learning environment, where students become actors at the forefront of a crises and are required to find the best course of action to deal with pressing and challenging situations.
Future leaders, decision-makers and crisis management team members must be ready to respond to such events swiftly, effectively, and decisively. Major high-impact crises that have recently occurred, including the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have shown the necessity to assess and improve our toolbox to respond effectively, using fundamental principles like cooperation, communication and foresight. When a crisis hits, vulnerable population groups are affected the most.
By responding to a specially created interactive simulation based on actual and possible occurrences, the training will help drive an active and dynamic learning process, while also preparing future decision-makers for the challenges of tomorrow.
Social Media for Peace.
Today’s digital environment has become a critical part of how we carry out our lives, growth, economic activities, learning and entertainment.
More and more the role of private citizens, especially young people, have a crucial role to play as digital Sherlocks, as both states and non-states actors weaponize tech and social media tools to amplify divisive and polarizing content, spread false information to undermine trust in governance, democracy, human rights and fuel conflict. To prevent digital risks to outweigh opportunities for social change, we need to better understand the types of digital tech tools and how digital spaces can transform how people share information and communicate with one another.
In light of the 75th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2023, the focus of the training is on human rights issues, particularly the enormous opportunities of social media to do good and to become a tool that promotes human rights, peace and justice.
Intercultural Learning and Communication.
This training is built around the principles of intercultural learning established by the Council of Europe. In a changing global context, where our societies have never been as connected, yet sometimes so far from each other, the need to bring intercultural matters closer to political and human rights education has not been greater. This training provides a perfect educational approach that can lead to social transformation, so that students from different cultural backgrounds can develop positive relations based on the values and principles of human rights, tolerance and dignity.
Intercultural learning as a concept, and even more as a practice or process, is not isolated. It is linked to our realities, societal changes, politics, economic development, justice, human rights, education, ecology, health and biology, globalisation and much more. In fact, intercultural learning can intersect with all areas in which human beings interact.