Gradual development of our programmes and learning process
With no template to draw upon, in 1989 the Spirit of Enniskillen core leadership and dialogue programme Explore was instigated and immediately began to develop and refine its approaches through the on-going reviewing, reflection and evaluation of all the young people and staff involved.
In a field where theory and practice are constantly changing and informing each other, this continuous reviewing over the years has generated a range of innovative and practical approaches and ideas aimed at releasing the energy, committment and learning of young people. 
Explore is also complemented in that, whilst the bulk of work is carried out in Northern Ireland, important learning also takes place through an overseas project set within a region of diversity or conflict.
The overall emphasis of the Trust has been to move the work beyond mere contact between individuals and into a participative group learning environment where young people can feel confident to explore the difficult and contentious issues normally avoided in relationships between those coming from conflicting cultures.
In carrying this out it is critically important to ensure that those who facilitate the work are also equipped with the essential blend of understanding, awareness and skills necesssary to enable this process and to deal positively with the fraught emotions that can often emerge.
Whilst many adults find it difficult to take these risks, young people are deeply interested.
When they are carried out in a supportive environment, greater understanding and improved relationships are the natural outcome - notwithstanding the lack of full agreement on either issues or political ideals.
As the work progressed through the early years, many of the experienced young people graduating through Explore moved to form their own follow-up organisation Future Voices in order to continue with their dialogue and learning activities and to influence positive change.
As the capacity of the Future Voices grouping grew and matured, they gradually began to take over the key responsibilities of the Explore project coordinators from the professionals who had been delivering it up until to this time.
Since 2004 all Explore coordinators have been past-participants, deepening the pool of experienced volunteers and, in turn, leading to these trained young adults, from all backgrounds and traditions, instigating the Together 'dealing with difference' programme between Catholic and Protestant schools in Northern Ireland. 
In support of the growing number of Explore and Together volunteer facilitators involved in the work, the Voice peer-mentoring and training programme has recently been organised on a systematic and on-going basis.
Since 2004 the young facilitators of Future Voices have delivered a programme of workshoips and residentials in Oldham schools in England for young people coming from white and ethnic backgrounds. The partnership and mentoring approach of the Future Voices group members has also supported the emergence of a growing group of local Oldham young people who are now expanding their facilitative leadership capacity and gradually taking on responsibility for the delivery of their own Shared Future programme.
The significant lesson is that young people are deeply influenced by their peer age-grouping and the 'dealing with difference' process is, through adaption, transferable across regions of division.
The core mission for the Spirit of Enniskillen is now development of the 'facilitative leadership' of young people and the delivey of 'dealing with difference' dialogue programmes in divided societys.