UPEACE Centre for Executive Education

01/10/2026

What happens when we create space in higher education not only for learning, but also for reflection, connection, and wellbeing? 🌿

We’re grateful to have been part of The Wellbeing Project's Hearth Summit Higher Ed 2026, where our own Gabe Coronado joined a global community exploring how wellbeing can be more deeply integrated into higher education.

Click play for a glimpse into the experience 🌿✨

01/10/2026

What helps people genuinely thrive at work?

Organizational happiness requires more than occasional wellness activities. It involves creating a culture where people understand their purpose, contribute through their strengths, experience compassion, and feel that they belong.

The Organizational Happiness Certification – Live Virtual Workshop provides practical tools to help leaders implement, measure, and sustain well-being within their organizations.

📅 November 6–December 4, 2026
🕘 Fridays, 9:00–10:30 a.m. Eastern Time
💻 Live virtual workshop

Learn more and register:
https://centre.upeace.org/live-virtual-workshops/organizational-happiness/

29/09/2026

A meaningful idea does not automatically become a fundable proposal.

Social impact leaders also need to communicate why their work matters, develop a credible plan, identify aligned funders, and build relationships that last beyond the initial ask.

Tackling Finance in the Social Sector: From Fundraising to Impact Investment provides practical tools to help participants strengthen their case for support and approach funding with greater confidence, clarity, and long-term strategy.

📅 October 22, 2026
💻 Online course

Learn more and enroll:
https://centre.upeace.org/tackling-finance-social-sector/

24/09/2026

We’re delighted to celebrate a wonderful milestone from a dear friend and partner of the UPEACE Centre! 🕊️

Prof. Luis Gallardo has released his new book, Fundamental Peace: The Source Book.

The book explores a compelling idea: that alongside the peace we create through our relationships, institutions, and societies, there is also an interior foundation for peace, one that can help us meet the world with greater awareness, compassion, and agency.

👉 Get your book here:

Read the source book on Fundamental Peace: 27 chapters, 22 figures, the FP20 scale, and a reading companion that answers from the book itself.

24/09/2026

Complex challenges often require more than conventional solutions.

The Design Thinking – Live Virtual Workshop introduces a creative, human-centered approach that brings together empathy, curiosity, and teamwork. Through practical activities, participants will apply the methodology to real challenges from their professional or personal lives.

📅 October 20, 2026
🕘 Tuesdays, 9:00–11:00 a.m. EST
💻 Live virtual workshop

Explore the course and register:
https://centre.upeace.org/live-virtual-workshops/design-thinking-virtual/

22/09/2026

When a challenge appears, our first instinct is often to search for an immediate solution. But moving too quickly can cause us to overlook assumptions, perspectives, and opportunities to learn.

Before committing to an answer, consider asking:

1. What are we assuming?
2. Whose perspective is missing?
3. What could we test before committing?

A thoughtful question can change how we understand the problem—and the possibilities we are able to imagine.

Which of these questions would be most useful for a challenge you are currently facing?

17/09/2026

A strong negotiator listens for what isn’t being said.

In a negotiation, people usually communicate their positions: what they want or what they believe should happen. But underneath those positions are interests, concerns, priorities, and needs.

Learning to recognize what lies beneath the words can help us communicate more clearly, manage conflict, and identify opportunities for more constructive agreements.

Skills for Effective Negotiations is a five-week live virtual workshop designed to strengthen preparation, communication, mediation, and interest-based negotiation skills.

📅 October 6, 2026
💻 Live virtual

Learn more and register:
https://centre.upeace.org/onlinecourses/skills-for-effective-negotiations/

15/09/2026

Every impact program should be able to answer more than “What did we do?”

It should also examine who it reached, what changed, and how the evidence can inform the next decision.

Monitoring & Evaluation Fundamentals: Measuring Outcomes & Impact helps participants develop practical tools to understand how their programs work, create meaningful objectives and indicators, analyze information, and use findings to strengthen their work.

📅 September 22–October 27, 2026
🌐 Five-week online course
💼 Flexible learning designed for working professionals

Explore the three questions in this carousel, then consider: which one is currently the most difficult for your program to answer?

Learn more and register:
https://centre.upeace.org/onlinecourses/monitoring-evalution-fundamentals-course-measuring-outcomes-and-impact/

11/09/2026

Another learning experience completed at UPEACE! 🌎✨

On September 6, participants came together for Skills for Effective Negotiations, an on-site learning experience facilitated by Rodolfo Carrillo.

Throughout the course, participants explored negotiation through practice, conversation, and shared learning, strengthening skills they can bring into their professional relationships, teams, and everyday decision-making.

Thank you to Rodolfo and to everyone who joined us and contributed to such an engaging learning experience. 💙

Here’s a glimpse of the day at the University for Peace campus in Costa Rica! 📸

10/09/2026

Is your program reaching the people it was designed to serve?

Are your services creating the outcomes you intended?

Collecting data is only the beginning. Its real value lies in helping organizations understand their progress, improve their work, and communicate results effectively.

Monitoring & Evaluation Fundamentals: Measuring Outcomes & Impact is a five-week online course where participants learn to develop a Theory of Change, create SMART objectives and indicators, analyze program data, and use evidence to make informed decisions.

📅 September 22–October 27, 2026
🌐 Five-week online course
🕘 Flexible learning designed for working professionals

Learn more and register:
https://centre.upeace.org/onlinecourses/monitoring-evalution-fundamentals-course-measuring-outcomes-and-impact/