About Me

My expertise is based on nearly 30 years of professional experience in the following fields:

Community Development and Community Work (since 1997)

  • I have been working in local projects aimed at Roma communities in Central- en Eastern Europe and the Balkans
  • I have been the manager of Community Center GC de Bosuil in Overijse (Jezus-Eik), Belgium (2019-2021)
  • For gro-up buurtwerk I implemented Right to Cooperate in Rotterdam Prins Alexander and am leading a team of community builders (from June 2021 till December 2023)
  • At home in The Hague, Laakkwartier, I am, as one of the inhabitants, actively involved in community building and local activities to improve our neighbourhood (since 2022).

Citizen’s Participation (since 1997)

  • Motivating citizens to participate in new developments in their neighbourhood
  • Consulting citizens before taking political decisions
  • Involving citizens in local development, facilitation of meetings

Training, training design, workshops and group facilitation, using participatory approaches (since 1998).

  • Managing long-term training programmes
  • Tailor-made training for NGO’s and companies
  • Training of grass-roots groups
  • On-line training using WebEx, Zoom, JitsiMeet, MS Teams
  • Technical Training (IT, applications, training of end-users)

I have been trained in the methodology of Technology of Participation (http://top-facilitation.com/)

Strategic planning (since 2000)

Facilitating Participatory Strategic Planning Workshops and providing advice on organizational development; stakeholder analysis.

Project Management & Team leadership (since 1999)

  • Design and management of EU-financed projects
  • Financial management and fundraising

Social Work (since 1992)

  • In 24/7 crisis centers in The Netherlands
  • Training social workers and community workers within training projects for NGO’s
  • Since October 2021 I am working as policy-advisor for gro-up (www.gro-up.nl), a large not-for-profit organisation in the domains of kindergartens, child care, social work for youth, social work and community building. My work in mainly focused on social work in Rotterdam and community building.

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Peter Mulder - Tailor Made Training and Workshops

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