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Marija Farmer

born 1982  •  lives in Serbia  •  speaks fluent English
About:

Trainer, consultant, theatre director of physical and expressive theatre. I find creativity essential tool to change ourselves and the world around us. Through programs I create and lead I want to support the complexity of the human being, its fullness, beauty and mystery and to avoid simple answers and single faceted interpretations of any phenomena.

Marija Farmer has 3 references for past work as a trainer and added 13 tools to the SALTO Toolbox.

Marija Farmer

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Current occupation

Free lance trainer for personal, professional and civil society development; Theatre director; Expert in creativity development;

Work experience

I am freelance trainer & consultant in the area of people, organizational and social development. I have been engaged-contracted by numerous national and international organizations on short-term or long-term basis. I am also founder and owner of consulting agency Marija Farmer & The Good Cats (ex Magic Agency, 2008-current) focused of creativity development of people and organizations and delivering theatre trainings for softskills and company culture development and creative events of large scale for different occasions. I have behind me more then 7500 participants from all three sectors, public, business and nongovernmental.

Some of the international training courses (extensive list you have attached) I worked on as trainer/facilitator :

Trainer for ToT for ART-ACT-DISRUPT - Train of Trainers workshop on Artivism = activism and art in public spaces. Tools and knowledge provided to the participants during the workshops will be used for the 3 Intervention Trainings taking place during the final quarter of 2023 - Nicosia, Cyprus, 14-16th of March 2023, ABR-Alternative Brains Rule, Cyprus
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Trainer, External expert - Cultural Practitioner Guide - trainer of the local workshop for RYCO “Western Balkan Youth Cultural Fund” project", Mokrin, Serbia 30.11.2023-
1.11.2023.

• Facilitator (member of the team) at a Conference/Symposium, a two day forum for policy makers and researchers from the field of education and training of youth workers across Europe to discuss what is and could be the position of education and training in ensuring youth work quality, 19-20 October 2022 | Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia

• Creative Approaches to Peacebuilding - Erasmus PeaceBuilders Project, online workshop, 2022

• ART&FACT - Peacebuilding and Art - international youth training on how to create and use art and performance in social change and social impact, 7-days training, SEEYN, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2022

• Take Your Power Back - Wellbeing in International Youth work - senior trainer and manual-book writer, YEU Brussels - Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2021

• Expert for Building Advocacy Capacities of the Associations of Families of Missing Persons - training and manual writing – ICMP (International Commision on Missing Persons), Belgrade, September 2021

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Educational pathway

M.A. in PSYCHOLOGY, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade;

MAPA – Moving Academy for Performing Arts, Netherlands; Projections in Theatre; Lightening Bodies; Coaching in Theatre;

Educated in Developing Creative Potentials and Intuition Development Advanced Level; Sandra Mussey; Expressive Arts University of California, San Francisco-Belgrade

Educated in Expressive Arts Techniques – theatre, visual arts and poetry; Advanced Courses in Expressive Arts Therapy – EGS; Paolo Knill, Majken Jacoby, Melinda Meier, Stephen K. Levine– Italy, Germany.

Certificated director of Theatre of the Oppressed – Forum theatre (The Forum Theatre Week) and Rainbow of Desire - Adrian Jackson, Cardboard Citizens, London, UK.

International Certificate to competently prepare, run and evaluate training activities with an international and intercultural dimension; Council of Europe’s Directorate of Youth and Sport- European Youth Centre, Budapest, Hungary.

Participated in many national and international trainings, seminars and conferences on peace education, conflict resolution, communication skills, teamwork and leadership, intercultural learning.

Fields of training expertise

  • (advanced) Animation
  • (intermediate) Bullying & Harassment
  • (expert) Campaigning & Awareness Raising
  • (expert) Change Management
  • (advanced) Citizenship Education
  • (expert) Coaching & Mentoring
  • (expert) Communication Skills
  • (expert) Conflict Management & Mediation
  • (expert) Creativity & Art
  • (intermediate) Crisis Management
  • (expert) Diversity & Anti-Racism
  • (expert) Drama & Theatre
  • (expert) Entrepreneurship (Social)
  • (expert) Equal Opportunities
  • (intermediate) Evaluation & Assessment
  • (expert) Event Management
  • (advanced) Financial Management
  • (intermediate) Fundraising
  • (intermediate) Gender Awareness & Mainstreaming
  • (intermediate) Global Education
  • (expert) Group Dynamics & Motivation
  • (beginner) Health & Prevention
  • (expert) Human Rights
  • (expert) Intercultural Learning
  • (expert) International Youth Work
  • (advanced) Labour Rights & Employment
  • (expert) Leadership Development
  • (expert) Lobbying & Advocacy
  • (advanced) New Information Technologies
  • (intermediate) Open Space Technology
  • (expert) Organizational Management
  • (intermediate) Outdoor & Experiential Training
  • (expert) Peace Education
  • (expert) People Management & Cooperation
  • (expert) Personal Development & Empowerment
  • (expert) Project Management
  • (intermediate) Public Relations & Marketing
  • (expert) Public Speaking
  • (advanced) Recognition of NFLearning
  • (expert) Social Inclusion & Exclusion
  • (advanced) Social Media
  • (expert) Storytelling & Humour
  • (expert) Time Management
  • (expert) Training of Trainers
  • (beginner) Valorisation of Projects (DEOR)
  • (expert) Volunteer Programmes
  • (expert) Youth Exchanges
  • (advanced) Youth Participation & Initiatives
  • (intermediate) Youth Policy
  • (intermediate) Youth Violence & Criminality
  • (expert) Youth Worker Training

Knowledge about institutions and programmes

  • (expert) Erasmus+ (KA1) Youth Exchanges
  • (expert) Erasmus+ (KA1) Training & Networking
  • (advanced) Erasmus+ (KA2) Transnational Youth Initiatives
  • (advanced) Erasmus+ (KA2) Strategic Partnerships
  • (advanced) Erasmus+ (KA2) Capacity Building (other countries in the World)
  • (intermediate) Erasmus+ (KA3) Youth Policy Meetings
  • (expert) European Solidarity Corps Volunteering
  • (expert) Erasmus+ (lifelong learning, non-youth)
  • (expert) European Youth Centres (CoE)
  • (advanced) European Youth Foundation (CoE)
  • (advanced) Solidarity Fund for Youth Mobility (CoE)
  • (advanced) European Institutions
  • (advanced) Youth Partnership CoE-COM
  • (intermediate) International Youth Structures
  • (beginner) Private Foundations
  • (advanced) United Nations

Working with specific target groups

  • (expert) Children
  • (intermediate) Families
  • (intermediate) Gay, Lesbian, Bi & Transgender work
  • (expert) Intercultural Teams
  • (expert) Marginalized & Excluded Youth
  • (expert) Minorities
  • (intermediate) Religious Youth Groups
  • (advanced) Women's Issues & Groups
  • (expert) Young People in/from Conflict Areas
  • (beginner) Young People with a Mental Disability
  • (intermediate) Young People with a Physical Disability
  • (intermediate) Young People with a Sensory Disability

Experience with specific geographical regions

  • (intermediate) Eastern Europe and Caucasus
  • (expert) European Cooperation
  • (intermediate) Global Cooperation
  • (intermediate) North-North Cooperation
  • (intermediate) North-South Co-operation
  • (expert) South East Europe

Other skills

applied theatre and theatre for social change; working with business sector-business consultancy; facilitating events of larger scale; opening creative potentials; expressive arts; developing intuition;

Language Skills

  • (fluent) English

Other languages

Serbian - native

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This profile was last modified on 2026-02-11

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