Maria Tymoshchuk

Maria Tymoshchuk

Contact email: maritymoshchuk@gmail.com

Kyiv, Ukraine.

Trainer and facilitator of the trainers’ pool of the NGO Insha Osvita and the international coaching network Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg. She is a journalist by education, worked in the media for 7 years, after which she began to delve into critical thinking and facilitation. She has experience working with different target audiences — from teenagers to veterans. Also worked as a media literacy programme manager at Impact Hub Odesa. 

Specialisation:

  • Design, management, and facilitation of online and offline learning products for different target audiences
  • Critical thinking
  • Team building
  • Non-violent communication
  • Moderation of forums, networking meetings, and professional exchanges
  • Resilience
  • Coaching
  • Work with IDPs, ex-combatants

Events:

  • Facilitation of professional exchanges: meeting of international donors and young femactivists (Global Resilience Fund), professional exchanges Navzaem for representatives of the creative, cultural and public sectors.
  • Moderation of forums and major events: UkraineLab 2022, Rural Rules (2019), conferences of moderators of the DocuClub network from all over Ukraine (2020-2021).
  • Hackathons, ideation, and idea generation sessions: Veterandvizh and Veterandvizh 2.0 (UNDP), ideathon for non-formal education actors from Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Moldova Rethinking citizenship education (MitOst), Global Service Jam on design thinking in Odesa, ideathon Youth Leadership (Ukrainian Leadership Academy); brainstorming session for a future international network of scholars (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2022).
  • Support circles for IDPs within the Sign of Hope project (2022).
  • Networking: Arts Access networking session for the international community of artists participating in the festival (2020), networking for the community of the Live History Workshop programme (2020).
  • Training events: School of Online Facilitation, School of Decision-Making Facilitating, School of Learning Formats Facilitation; 2020-2022 — trainer of the media literacy programme Rozumiu (Insha Osvita in partnership with DW Akademie).
  • Adaptation of curricula from offline to online: Creative Enterprise Ukraine Online (2020-2022).
  • Working with organisations: Pangea Ultima Development Centre (teamwork training), Lviv Media Forum (facilitation of a strategic meeting for a new project).
  • Coaching of the fellows within the framework of the Vidnova Fellowship, a programme of individual support for people in the Ukrainian public sector.

Languages:

  • Ukrainian
  • English
  • Russian