FAQs

Lucca Leadership offers transformational leadership training and support, to give young people from all nations of the world the skills and ability to lead change for the benefit of their community, nation, humanity and the world.

Lucca Leadership is for a charity set up to help the whole of the world. We believe that communities throughout the world can be bettered through good leadership and that this leadership can come best from young people. To help young people lead change for the benefit of their community, nation, humanity and the world, we want as many people to experience the transformational Lucca Leadership programmes. See the alumni section to see how previous participants projects have helped their communities. For application criteria, see the apply section.

The Leadership Foundations programme is open to young people from age 16 – 30. The Living Leadership and Mentoring programmes have different application criteria. The simple criteria can be found on the Who Can Apply page.

You can apply on-line here.

Attending the Leadership Foundations programme will help you unleash your potential and gain a deep insight into your purpose in life and what it takes to become a good leader who can make a real difference in your community. It is a week long residential course. Click here for more information.

When the charity was being set up in 2001, the concept was of a leadership renaissance. It seemed fitting that we should base ourselves at the heart of the Italian renaissance in Tuscany. A fittingly inspiring Villa was found near Lucca and Lucca Leadership was born.  For more on our history, click here.

Lucca Leadership is a global organisation, with independent affiliates around the world. There are branches in the UK, Ireland, Australia and soon to be the United States and South Africa. Each of these affiliates has it’s own team of volunteers who run the charities. For information on these people, see the Our People section. For contact information, see the Contact Us section.

Lucca Leadership is a global organisation, with independent affiliates around the world. There are branches in the UK, Ireland, Australia and soon to be the United States and South Africa. The UK and Irish affiliates run programmes in Lucca and the Australian affiliate runs programmes in Australia. Applicants can choose which course to attend and in which location. For a calendar of events, click here.

Transformational leadership is about change. Change for the better. Please see our Transformational Leadership section for more information.

Lucca Leadership graduates leave the course ready to set up a project for the benefit of their community. There is  a vast range of scales and themes for these projects. Please see the Post Programme Projects section to read more about them.

• Global info@luccaleadership.org. Click here for more details.
• UK info@luccaleadership.org.uk. Click here for more details.
• Ireland info@luccaleadership.ie. Click here for more details.
• Australia info@luccaleadership.org.au. Click here for more details.

• Global
• Australia (coming soon)
• Ireland
• United Kingdom (coming soon)

Please see our Events Calendar for the next event that you can attend.

The requirement of mentors is generally to attend a mentor training weekend and then to have a conversation with your mentee(s) roughly once a month. This frequency can be altered with the agreement of both parties but this is what we would encourage. There is no stipulated length of time that the conversations should last, but it should last long enough for the mentor to have a thorough discussion with the mentee as to how they are and how their project is progressing. The conversation could hence last anything from 1 hour to an afternoon. The conversations do not have to be face to face as the mentors and mentees may well be located in different countries and thus phone calls are fine and preferable to e-mail. Any other time needed in between conversations would be at the discretion of the mentor and would vary according to any action points that might arise out of the conversation (if there are any). We generally allocate 1-2 mentees per mentor. Each mentoring process is expected to last for one year, but again this could last longer if both sides wanted it to. Hence this will be at your discretion.

The guidance a mentor receives starts with the weekend mentor training. We also provide the mentor with a study pack along which contains useful articles and a small manual. Throughout the year, the mentor will also be contacted by various members of the Lucca Leadership team to ensure that all parties are happy, and to answer any queries. The mentor will of course be encouraged to contact the Lucca Leadership mentoring team with any queries he or she has at any stage.

There is a very simple contract to ensure that both the mentee and mentor are protected. There is a template contract that we offer which is then amended by the mentor and mentees as they wish. This template outlines the basic things that need to be agreed on such as frequency of contact, method of contact, ground rules such as confidentiality etc, best time for communication, next point of communication, proposed length of contract and any other commitments.

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There are various Lucca Leadership programmes, catering for people of different ages and experience. For young leaders (16 – 30 years old) there is the week-long Leadership Foundations Programme and for graduates of this programme, there is the follow on programme, Living Leadership. For prospective mentors, we have the Mentor Training programme. There are also one day and weekend programmes held throughout the year. Please see our Programmes sections for further information.

The Leadership Foundations Programme is based around four types of activity; tuition, practical experience, reflection and dialogue. This structure is designed to give you the maximum opportunity to understand the programme material from your own experience, and to come to a firm understanding of how you can lead transformation in your own community and society. This will involve reflecting on your own particular project and its relation to the needs you see around you. For more information on this topic, please see the Leadership Foundations Programme details.

There are bursaries available for help with the cost of the Programme and/or with travel costs for those with financial difficulties (with priority given to those from developing countries). Bursaries may be applied for on the application form, see How to Apply for more details.