Appreciative Integral Leadership
Course description
An examination of the construct of culture provides clarity about our personal and collective identity and tools for the development of cultural intelligence. We sense how people experience and engage cultural difference ranging from ethnocentrism to ethnorelativism and how we experience culture as “relative to context.“
Appreciative Inquiry is a strengths-based, inclusive and actionable approach for large system change and development. Appreciative Inquiry works on the premise that every organic system has some inherent generative forces, which when amplified, unleash positive energy and enable collective commitment.
In the space of our system explored in this training course, we look for balance between development and integration to promote a conscious, harmonious and steady development. The integral approach is inclusive or holistic rather than exclusivist or reductive and values and integrates multiple explanations and methodologies.
In this course we will also focus on:
- Appreciative inquiry
- Integral theory
- Intercultural competence
- Emotional intelligence
Methodology
This is a powerful package for leading systemic generative change in organizations and communities using a combination of systemic, appreciative and integral approaches. Emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence principles are proven to enhance both relationships and awareness in positive community change. Wellness involves techniques of mindfulness in looking at one’s overall inner picture and areas of potential change.
The integral approach and AQAL (All Quadrants All Levels) model incorporates four major dimensions of human activity, effectiveness, efficiency, wellbeing and culture, combined with levels of human and organisational development. It is a grand synthesis that provides an Integral Map that enables you to gain a more comprehensive understanding of any issue, using an Integral Approach helps you to facilitate better self awareness.

Benefits
The program is designed to provide participants with leading-edge tools:
- Motivating intervention strategies for resilient and more productive workplaces and lifestyles
- Developing a more positive outlook
- Reflecting upon actions and preparing new actions.
Programme
This programme is flexible and will be tailored to the experience and requirements of the participants.
MORNING SESSION I
- Opening and introduction
- Opening round
- Getting to know each other
- Expectations round
- Setting the agenda
Break (20 minutes)
MORNING SESSION II
Appreciative Inquiry
- Introduction and overview of Appreciative Inquiry
- Principles of Understanding and Practicing
- 4D model – Discovery process
Lunch Break 13.00 -14.30
AFTERNOON SESSION
Intercultural Competence –
Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes
Theory and preparation for practice
Break
Reflective Sharing Round
Closing of the day
Local Evening – welcome reception
MORNING SESSION
- Check in opening round
- Warming up exercises
- Plenary session – Sharing and processing round
Break
- 2D Envisioning Process
- Cultivating a generative approach – Workouts
Lunch Break 13:00 – 14:30
AFTERNOON SESSION
- 3D Design – Appreciative action planning
- Practicing ‘Appreciative Conversations’- Workouts
Break
- Workouts
- Formulation of working groups and Journaling
MORNING SESSION
- Morning Check in Opening Round
- Flow movement exercises
- Sharing and processing round for the whole group
- Practicing ‘Appreciative Conversations’- Workouts
Break
- Developmental model I ( Ken Wilber & Robert Kegan)
- Workouts II
Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION
- Developmental model II
- Circling
Break
- Processing round for the whole group
- Sharing
MORNING SESSION
- Morning Check in Opening Round
- Mindfulness Exercises (part 1)
- 4D Destiny/Delivery
Break
- Fishbowl process
- Circling & Flow process
Lunch Break 13:00 – 14:30
AFTERNOON SESSION
- Open space technology
- Co-creating your AIL intervention
Excursion – Outdoor activity
- Co-learning from nature and other resilient environments
- Reflections
- Evaluations
- Closing
MORNING SESSION
- Morning Check in Opening Round
- Case supervision
- Collective Mind Map Making visible our thinking
Lunch Break 13:00 – 14:30
AFTERNOON SESSION 14:30 – 17:30 (3,5 hrs)
- Afternoon Check in Opening Round
- Pro-action Cafe
- Practical implementation
- Sharing and processing round for the whole group
Duration: 6 days
Dates & Location:
03 – 08 October Crete, Greece

Designed for participants/groups
This training is designed for those interested in team-building and strengthening awareness. It is designed for staff, managers, coaches, psychologists, social workers, counsellors and organisational development professionals specialised in human resource development, career management and other related fields.
Instructors
Dr. Markos Perrakis, founder and managing director of Fractality, designs and implements projects in the areas of leadership development and strategic planning to promote effective communication and individual and collective process development.
Dr. Perrakis is one of the first persons in Greece to apply the methodology of appreciative inquiry for individual and organizational development. This approach seeks to strengthen human capital and social bonds to generate organizational capacity.
Fractality offers services in coaching, training, assessments, supervision, process facilitation and speaking, systemic consultation, solution focused and cognitive behavioural approaches, methods of participatory design, spiritual intelligence and psychometric assessment. Dr. Perrakis is a certified provider of Vocational Guidance and Professional Orientation and an ISO 9001 lead auditor.
Dr. Perrakis is a representative of the Association of International Institution Supervision in Europe, a member of International Intervision Groups, scientific assistant of the Society for Organisational Learning, and scientific partner of the European Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (EUMU) in Greece in the Strategic Planning and Human Capital Development programmes.
Dr. Perrakis holds a Ph.D. in social psychology on leadership styles and their efficiency in organisations and an M.A. in clinical psychology.
Dr. Anna Storck has extensive experience living in different countries around the world and working as consultant with international companies particularly in Poland, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, the United States, India and New Zealand. After spending 15 years in Germany, she moved to New Zealand where she taught at the School of Communication at the Auckland University of Technology. Now based in Switzerland, Dr. Storck provides online courses focused on embodied knowing which create generative learnings systems that balance self-knowledge and social awareness with academic demands.
Dr. Storck is co-founder and Dean (Department of Peace) of the Institute for Global Integral Competence and member of the Board of Directors (Listening for Peace Division) of the Global Listening Centre in Mumbai, India. Her passion for intercultural communication – the area of her specialisation – is rooted in her own immigration experience. In her 20-year career in the field of intercultural communication as scholar educator and practitioner, she has encouraged awareness of the impacts of inequality and the benefits of embracing diversity.
Over the past decade, she has extended her research domain to issues of integral and cosmopolitan communication carrying out a series of original studies investigating various psychological, situational, and macro-environmental factors influencing communication behaviours of individuals when they encounter culturally dissimilar others. She is a blogger with extensive expertise in the area of empowerment of women.

Venue
Our programme takes place on the island of Crete in Greece in the pleasant seaside town of Platanias close to Chania, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Porto Platanias Village Resort, located on the northwest coast of Crete, provides luxurious accommodations and fully serviced workshop facilities. Beaches, local eateries, shops and sites are within walking distance of Porto Platanias. This setting provides ample opportunity for participants to continue discussions outside of formal workshop hours in a relaxed atmosphere.
The closest international airports are Chania International Airport (24 km) and Heraklion International Airport (165 km).
Chur is the capital and largest town of the Swiss canton of Grisons and lies in the Grisonian Rhine Valley, where the Rhine turns towards the north, in the northern part of the canton. The city, which is located on the right bank of the Rhine, is reputedly the oldest town of Switzerland
Participation Fee
Option A.
The fee for this course is 780€.
Option A price include
– Tuition fees
– Educational materials
– Certificates of participation at the end
– Beverages and a welcome cocktail
Accommodation and meals are not included in the above fees.
Option B.
Total full package price for participants with double room accommodation: 1,300€ (approx. depending on the period)(+200€ single room):
Option B prices include:
– A 5*star hotel accommodation
– Breakfast
– Lunch or dinner
– Tuition fees
– Educational materials
– Certificates of participation at the end
– Beverages and a welcome cocktail
Additional option:
- A half-day excursion with the group led by locals – €50

Contact us
Questions or concerns? please contact us at [email protected] or call +302106010522. Cancellation Policy*
Until 30 days before the starting date of the selected workshop, cancellation will be free of charge and the pre-payment will be fully refunded. Between 30 to 15 days before the starting date of the workshop, 50% of the fee will be refunded. Within the 15 days before the starting date of the workshop no refunds will be made.