Training testimonials.
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Unique and wholly positive impressions. Journalists need all of this information — not being able to secure your own safety, as far as that is possible, affects the quality of your work and the effectiveness of the team.

Every session was substantial and useful. I gained valuable experience and drew important conclusions for my work, especially in frontline areas. Grateful to the organisers for the friendly atmosphere and the quality of preparation.

A very sensible spread of load across the days: day one immersion, day two the hard part, day three the way out, day four online for everything we had not covered.

Thank you for such an excellent opportunity — in our turbulent reality this is critically important. I will push for our whole newsroom to take a training like this and learn at least what I managed to learn.

It was very intense and very useful. Yes, it was hard, but for me it was extremely valuable experience. The practical drills showed me my strengths and weaknesses and what to work on. Thank you for the opportunity.

The training taught me to restore my energy even in the newsroom's frantic rhythm, and made the point that a comfortable sofa and a morning coffee are already half the battle for a good day.

It was valuable to hear colleagues' experience, discuss real challenges and find ways to keep professional resilience. Meetings like this remind you how much mutual support matters, and how to understand your own role during the war.

A training retreat is an organic combination of learning, networking and rest. Knowledge media workers genuinely need, in great company and a warm, atmospheric setting, gives a real therapeutic effect. Thank you for the chance to recover and learn.

A useful training for beginners, with the chance to pick up practical skills and a general understanding of psychological first aid.

I like that in her training, she shows real cases with solutions in different conditions

An absolutely indispensable training, as basic a necessity as a vest, helmet, first-aid kit and drone detector. Servus, Natalia, Lidiia and the drone team — Bohdan, Mykyta and friends — are absolute stars. My only wish is a longer course, long enough to drill the skills to full automatism.

Prominent strategist caring about safety and security of journalists and civil society

A training you cannot imagine safe fieldwork without. Knowledge and skills that genuinely save lives.

The lecturer's professionalism is immediately noticeable. Her lecture was truly engaging

I think everyone living in a country at war should take courses like this, if only for themselves — to understand what to do if something happens, and to be able to help the person next to them.

Insightful, led by experienced professionals, focused on acquiring practical skills which might come in handy in any extreme emergency situation.

On the whole the training reminds you how important psychological care for yourself and others is in the hard times we are living through, and it motivates you to learn more and put it into practice.

Thanks to this training I revised the MARCH protocol and felt for myself how hard it is to work in a hostile environment under drone threat. I hope it will help me make the right decisions on future assignments. Learning to work as a coordinated team was just as important, and that is a challenge in itself.

The lecturer demonstrated deep knowledge and expertise and skillfully kept the audience engaged, creating a supportive learning atmosphere