📅 22 April 2026 🕒 12:30 PM – 6:30 PM EEST
Online
This year’s Transformation Literacy Conference focuses on how to enhance patterns of aliveness in ourselves, our societies, and with the Earth. It brings together generations to explore collaborative approaches to building cultures of peace. Using the Collective Leadership Compass, we’ll examine how intergenerational partnerships can create thriving futures for people and planet.
This years collaborators – the next generation of peacebuilders
This conference directly supports CLI’s Young Peacebuilders Program, which equips emerging leaders with collaborative approaches to building peace in their communities worldwide.
By choosing a Solidarity Ticket, you help fund a Young Peacebuilder’s participation in the 2026 program – ensuring that those creating tomorrow’s peace cultures have the resources and connections to succeed.
Program
11:30-12:00 CET
Hello & Welcome |Let’s start the conference together
Join us for a warm-up before we dive in! Our welcome session is your chance to meet the team, connect with fellow changemakers, and get oriented for the day ahead. Share where you’re coming from, and start building the connections that will make this conference meaningful.
Come curious, ask anything, and let’s begin this collective learning journey together.
12:00 PM CET
Session 1: In Conversation with Peacebuilders experiencing violent conflict (1h 45min)
Details follow soon.
2:15 PM CET
Session 2: In Conversation with Peacebuilders experiencing social conflict (1h 45min)
Details follow soon.
4:00 PM CET
Wrap Up and Staying Connected! (30min)
4:30-5:00 CET
Closing Celebration |Let’s connect and toast!
The educational part of the conference ends here. Yet transformation literacy isn’t just knowledge—it’s the relationships, insights, and courage we cultivate together. So join us to celebrate what we’ve learned, honor the connections we’ve built, and reflect on how we’ll carry this forward. Share your stories, celebrate this stepping stone, and empower each other to continue the journey.
Who we’re calling in and what to expect
We are calling in Practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, organizers, and anyone curious about intergenerational collaboration for cultures of peace. Whether you’re actively working in this field or exploring how transformation literacy connects to your context—you belong here.
Learn: Explore transformation literacy and its role in building cultures of peace and what “enhancing patterns of aliveness” means in practice
Connect: Get in contact with high-profile professionals from the civil society, public, private, and research sector – change-weavers across generations and sectors
Transform: Leave with practical examples and fresh perspectives to advance peace in your context
Collaborate: Build relationships that extend beyond the conference and fuel collective action
What is Transformation Literacy?
Transformation literacy is the capacity to understand, navigate, and actively contribute to large-scale systemic change toward sustainability. It means knowing how to work across boundaries—whether institutional, cultural, or sectoral—to collectively steward transformations that benefit both people and planet.
In a world facing urgent sustainability challenges, transformation literacy is no longer optional. It must become a core competency for anyone involved in shaping our collective future: from government officials and business leaders to civil society activists and community organizers. It’s about moving beyond awareness to action, and from isolated efforts to coordinated, collaborative change.
