Learn and experience from and within social interaction
Managerial and organizational success does not depend solely on experience or professional knowledge – it requires leadership skills, effective communication, and the ability to create collaboration and influence. The courses for managers and teams were specifically designed to provide practical tools for dealing with management challenges in today’s dynamic work world.
Whether it’s developing strategic thinking, strengthening leadership presence, improving interpersonal communication, or increasing connectivity and productivity – the courses are tailored to the real needs of the organization and the people who lead it. Now is the time to move from good to managerial excellence and create significant change, both personal and organizational.
I developed my professional approach to the role of group facilitator from two study paths that deal with the psychology of groups and families, understanding group work processes, communication between people, how to make change, what you need to know, know and understand, and what helps to make the change while growing, allowing you to harness people, helping them get the most out of themselves in their own way. One at Lesley University, where I studied as part of a master’s degree (MA) in group facilitation combined with the arts, and the second path was taken as part of the Adler Institute, where I studied a group facilitation course for parents. These are two study paths that are different in essence and method, which allowed me to examine and delve deeper into different concepts of group work. One is structured and clear, dealing with the transfer of knowledge and learning, and the other path is much more open and broad, dealing mainly with the relationships and communication created between group members while integrating the world of the arts, allowing for cognitive bypassing, and bringing content from the world of the soul at a deeper level. These are two different aspects of the role of the facilitator in a group versus the facilitator in a workshop. The involvement, the intervention, the knowledge required, the preparation of the meetings, the discourse within the meetings are very different and require different skills from the facilitator of inclusive listening, recognition of processes and dynamics in the group or recognition of a topic and training skills. I bring this entire toolbox with me and act according to the needs and requirements of each workshop.
Of course, over the years, I have also worked in groups within organizations, associations, and public bodies, which have allowed me to bring my knowledge and professionalism to a very high level of perfection.
The workshops and groups I facilitate can be of the following types:
Participatory processes and methods: open space, global café, participatory leadership.
Lectures in the private sector and in the community deal with various levels of the self – self-promotion and fulfillment, career development as freelancers, developing interpersonal communication, achieving more with the right language, self-confidence is not what you thought, becoming a better leader, and more.
A combination of business processes and human processes creates higher qualities within the organization, a sense of belonging, meaning, and partnership, which bring partners to a different level of trust and commitment. It is clear to all of us that the people in a business are the driving, promoting, decisive, or overthrowing factor of the organization. Participatory and enabling discourse, open communication, learning and development, diversity, and inclusion of all voices do exactly that. That is where the emerging organizational world is headed.
There are several ways to advance these goals in organizations and communities. But in any format, it will be important to incorporate two significant parameters: experiential learning that does something different for us, it activates us from the inside, and makes the experience three-dimensional, multi-sensory, one that affects us deeply. Not only from thinking, but also from emotion, from the gut.
Communication enables collaboration that gives space and legitimacy to a variety of voices and possibilities. It does not outline and reduce, but rather expands and opens out of curiosity and passion.
