COLLABORATIONS
What We Can Do Together
We are curious about collaborating with you. At Recrear, we love entering processes where people, organizations, and communities learn, transform, and create together. Over the last 15 years, we’ve accompanied grassroots groups, activists, collectives, INGOs, public institutions, and funders across many geographies. We are guided by a profound commitment in regenerating our relationships to the social fabric that sustains communities, and a commitment to deep experimentation, reflection, and care. We partner with organizations, collectives, and networks to design and accompany processes of collective learning, culture-shifting, and transformation. Here’s what we can co-create together:
Facilitation of Collective Spaces
We design and host participatory, creative, and care-centered spaces that help groups reflect, align, imagine, and make meaning together. We co-design programs that blend research, facilitation, creativity, and embodiment. This includes:
- Workshops, laboratories, and participatory learning spaces
- Team retreats and strategic reflection sessions
- Multi-day residencies and immersion programs (co-designed for your context)
- Learning journeys across teams, regions, or ecosystems
- Multi-stakeholder dialogues
- Art-based and experiential learning journeys (Virtual, in-person or hybrid)
- Experimental labs and incubators
- Community-based residencies or ecosystem gatherings
When to bring us in:
when you want to convene a group to explore together narratives, strategies, relationship building across your ecosystem, or collective sense-making in an embodied way. When you want a deeper, longer-term learning arc rather than a one-off engagement.
Participatory Research and Inquiry
We accompany teams and communities through processes of learning, investigation, and storytelling that honor lived experiences as knowledge. This includes:
- Participatory Action Research (PAR) processes
- Community-led research design
- Case studies and storytelling documentation
- Learning publications, reflective products, and sense-making outputs
When to bring us in:
when you need meaningfully participatory research that supports learning, evaluation, and strategic direction. If you see research as a way to build deeper relationships and a strong foundation for defining actions based on a more nuanced understanding of needs in your organization, or ecosystem. Also if you are interested in exploring creative outputs that can include Playbooks, online courses, microsites, creating an interactive public event, creating a game or audiovisual outputs – then this is a conversation we’d love to have with you.
Organizational Culture & Transformation
We support organizations in examining and reshaping their culture, relationships, leadership, power dynamics, and ways of working. This includes:
- Culture-shifting processes
- Power and positionality work
- Leadership accompaniment
- Facilitating transitions or moments of re-alignment
When to bring us in:
when your organization is navigating change, growth, or tensions and wants to do so in a grounded, creative, and relational way. When you are craving for transformative work to go beyond being a peripheral experiment but rather a profound willingness to revisit how your organization understands itself, its role in the broader ecosystem and your ways of working.
Our Thematic Expertise
Across all collaborations, we bring particular depth in:
We are always looking for partners with whom we can learn and experiment. So please do reach out if you want to start a conversation. Below we share a portfolio of our collaborations.
Alternative resourcing and organizing
Resourcing and philanthropy transformation
Feminist and women-centered processes
Leading in times of systemic “crumbling” and complexity
Collective imagination
We have worked with
Organizational accompaniment
We accompany groups and movements to renew and reinvent their organizational culture, through processes of collective inquiry.
Strengthening collaboration
We support organizations and movements interested in exploring new ways to engage other actors in their ecosystem.
An archive of our accompaniment work
Accompanying WFD Staff – 2025
Online Series
The online series offered a space for WFD staff to learn and reflect collaboratively on how to practice, design and facilitate Participatory Action Research, as well as how this approach can be adapted to your specific contexts.
PAR Training for WFD
Recrear is in a long-term learning partnership with the Westminster Foundation for Democracy where we are integrating PAR to processes of democracy (re)building all over the world. This includes having accompanied an intensive PAR residency retreat for members of parliament, civil society and the media in Sri Lanka. As members of a working group on social economic inclusion, they learn to design and conduct community consultations inspired by the design and principles of PAR. They carried out their participatory consultations in fisherman and plantation communities, as well as in Parliament. The insights gathered led to reviewing key legislation on health and transport related issues as well as inspired the creation of an association, independent from WFD, to continue this body of work. We also trained local experts in Ukraine and accompanied them to carry out a PAR process around community-rebuilding in a context of war within two municipalities. Most recently we brought PAR to the design and accompaniment of a collaborative cross-party workshop on unpacking and addressing Violence Against Women in Politics (VAWP) with members from eight political parties in the Maldives.
2024 ASEAN Region (WFD)
We had the unique opportunity to collaborate with WFD to provide women politicians across Asia with a space to discuss their experience with Violence Against Women in Politics. The workshop focused on creating a safe space to surface, share, and analyse stories on VAWP.
Alternative Resource Laboratory, MX 2025
In times of funding uncertainty, Madre and Fondo Semilla convened a gathering to explore alternative resourcing models that reflect local realities, prioritize solidarity and interdependence, and inspire adaptable strategies for systemic change. Recrear was brought in to co-design this process and facilitate the 3-day lab attended by over 50 feminist collectives and women’s funds from around the world.
Crisis and Care Convening- Brazil 2025
The Crisis and Care convening hosted by the Urgent Action Sister Funds was a gathering that brought together approximately 300 activists, predominantly, and feminist funders to unpack what it means to practice care in times of crisis. Recrear was part of the facilitation team that co-designed and facilitated elements of the gathering. In particular, we designed and held a co-creation process with a group of artists and healers whose sessions were offered as part of the programming of the convening.
The Fund for Global Human Rights - Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda (virtual) 2025
Our team was invited to strengthen the capacity of partners across West and East Africa to hold meaningful spaces with young people and community members on complex issues such as human rights and economic discrimination. We supported a small group of actors through online training sessions focused on participatory facilitation, reflective practice, and adapting learning tools to grantee contexts. Together, we also co-designed and tested participatory learning activities that the Fund can now use to sustain ongoing learning and capture insights with partners.
Decolonial Feminist Collective with Oxfam - virtual 2025
We accompanied the Decolonial Feminist Collective at Oxfam in understanding and shaping its work and in setting a shared vision for transformation grounded in decolonial feminist thinking and praxis. We facilitated a dynamic, participatory process that surfaced the knowledge already present within the organization and enabled the Collective to develop practices to sustain and deepen its transformative journey.
Mapping our Resistance to the Opposition - hybrid 2023:
partnership with Fos Feminista, we coordinated regional dialogues across four regions to create a collective space to analyze the approaches and impact of anti-rights movements and to share strategies for mobilizing among organizations advancing bodily autonomy. This process involved a series of virtual sessions, culminating in an in-person gathering for shared reflection and strategy-building.
Multi-country PAR programme with FemPawer:
As part of the FemPawer initiative, we supported Kvinna Till Kvinna and its partners in co-designing and implementing a Participatory Action Research (PAR) programme on economic gender-based violence (GBV) in Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Tunisia. We trained local co-researchers in our PAR and storytelling methodologies and guided them in conducting in-country projects to investigate how economic vulnerability exposes women to GBV. The project culminated in the publication of Hidden Voices, a booklet of stories about Arab women's economic survival.
Learning Agenda with the Fund for Global Human Rights:
This learning partnership explored the connections between youth livelihoods and human rights in West Africa. As part of the process, we recruited and trained a team of co-researchers—grantee partners of the Fund based in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The project concluded with the creation of Youth Lively-hoods, a Learning Agenda designed to inspire curiosity, facilitate deep learning, and provide a roadmap for future research. This agenda serves as a tool to frame key questions, propose PAR activities to address them, and inspire actions for meaningful progress in securing the livelihoods and fundamental rights of young people.
A cooperative inquiry with movement organisations in the UK:
Recrear was brought in by the Lankelly Chase Foundation (LCF) to accompany a 5-month cooperative inquiry with 8 movement organisations in the UK to explore how to attend to the relationship between movement organisations and donors, especially in the UK. The inquiry happened to unfold just as the fund took a decision to transition towards closure. These turning tides made for a deeply moving learning experience, the insights of which, and accompanying tools, are shared in the interactive publication ‘What Moves Movements: An inquiry into the power of words and silence in navigating uncertainty’.
FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund strategic review:
FRIDA engaged Recrear to investigate the long-term impact of FRIDA’s support on its grantee partners and, by extension, the communities served by these young feminist groups. Over the course of a year, Recrear conducted in-person visits with young feminist groups in each region supported by FRIDA. The research involved grantees in workshops and in-depth interviews to ensure their insights shaped the findings. This collaborative process resulted in The Young Feminist Pluriverse, a narrative report that delves into how sustained, flexible financial and non-financial support enhances the resilience and evolution of young feminist organisations and movements.
Youth Civic Space Learning Trajectory with Oxfam:
This participatory research project explored ways for INGOs to better nurture and safeguard youth civic spaces. We facilitated a learning journey with Oxfam staff and youth organisations across Palestine, Pakistan, and Uganda, examining strategies for more supportive engagement. The insights from this journey culminated in the publication of ‘What Happens if We Meet?’, a practical playbook designed to strengthen collaboration between INGOs and youth organisers within the context of shrinking civic spaces.