Appreciative Spiritual Leadership
Course description
Are you aligned with your vision, values and strategy as a leader?
The Appreciative Spiritual Leadership Retreat reinforces the sustainability of your organization. This retreat has been designed to practice efficient and effective leadership techniques that build rapport and motivate and energize your team. Our participants discover and develop leadership capacity and characteristics, learn to communicate effectively and to control emotionally charged reactions.
Appreciative Leadership focuses on potential, discovering what works well and how to get more out of organizations and individuals. It aims at getting the best out of people who are engaged in a system or a situation.
Methodology
This appreciative spiritual leadership retreat utilizes a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum comprehension and retention of the information presented. Its applications include: strategic planning, vision-values-culture articulation and cascade, leadership and team excellence, and employee engagement. The programme includes case studies, interactive activities and instant implementation.

Benefits
- Cultivating a healthy mind and body for maximum effectiveness
- Understanding different personality profiles and how to communicate with them
- Picturing the current situation of the organization or individuals such as skills, output capacity, organizational and personal effectiveness, adequacy of available resources
- Developing openness to creativity and innovation
- Designing the necessary actions for the company or the individual to achieve objectives
- Creating and sustaining effective team development
- Enhancing ability to clarify client and team vision to deal with issues from another perspective
- Applying anger management techniques and resolving conflicts
Organisational Impact
- Increase organizational productivity via greater leadership influence
- Catalyze systemic generative change in organizations
- Enhance leadership skills
- Improve communication and teamwork between managers, leaders and staff
- Develop effective leadership influence
Personal Impact
- Enhance personal leadership growth
- Develop skills as an inspirational leader
- Develop personal influence to positively impact others
- Improve personal effectiveness
Programme
This workshop is highly participative. It consists of short theoretical lessons, concrete exercises and group discussions. As we apply each tool to your real life case, you gain new insight into your current situation.
- What is Self-discovery?
- Personalities in the Workplace
- Maximising our People Skills Abilities
- Wellness of The Body
- Exploring the Appreciative Inquiry 4D Model
- Increase our Energy – Positive core
Local Evening – welcome reception
- Developing The Right Attitude
- Understand The Stages of Growth
- Openness to New Ideas Discovery process
- Creating a Creative Climate
- Principles of Appreciative Leadership
- Dreaming/Envisioning process
- Characteristics of A Skilled Communicator
- Asking Questions to Clarify Information
- Active Listening to Understand the Message
- What do our bodies say?
- Creating A Positive Self-image
- Design process/action planning
- Results – Feedback
- Definition of A Team
- Factors in Team Development
- Types of Team Players
- Giving Feedback For Improved Performance
- Destiny/Delivery
- Open space technology – Tips
- Reflecting Teams
- Excursion – Outdoor activity
- Co-learning – The Assertive Formula
- Relaxation Techniques
- Reflections- Evaluations
- Debriefing and Closing
Duration: 5 days
Dates: June 3 – 9
Arrival day 3rd of June & Departure day the 9th of June
Location: Chania – Crete, Greece
Certificates
A Fractality certificate of completion is awarded to each participant upon successful completion of this training course.
Programme
This workshop is highly participative. It consists of short theoretical inputs, concrete exercises and group discussions. Reflecting upon and applying each tool to your real-life cases from your everyday work, you will practise and gain new insights into your current dilemmas.
- What is Self-discovery?
- Personalities in the Workplace
- Maximising our People Skills Abilities
- Wellness of The Body
- Exploring AI- 4D Model
- Increase our Energy – Positive core
Local Evening – welcome reception
- Developing The Right Attitude
- Understand The Stages of Growth
- Openness to New IdeasDiscovery process
- Creating a Creative Climate
- Principles of Appreciative Leadership
- Dreaming/Envisioning process
- Characteristics of A Skilled Communicator
- Asking Questions to Clarify Information
- Active Listening to Understand the Message
- What do our bodies say?
- Creating A Positive Self-image
- Design process/action planning
- Results – Feedback
- Definition of A Team
- Factors in Team Development
- Types of Team Players
- Giving Feedback For Improved Performance
- Destiny/Delivery
- Open space technology – Tips
- Reflecting Teams
- Excursion – Outdoor activity
- Co-learning – The Assertive Formula
- Relaxation Techniques
- Reflections- Evaluations
- Debriefing and Closing
Duration: 5 days
Dates: 03 – 09 June.
Arrival day 3rd of June & Departure day the 9th of June
Location: Chania – Crete, Greece
Certificates
A Fractality certificate of completion is awarded to participants upon successful completion of this training course.

Designed for participants/groups
- Leaders, managers and supervisors who want to become more effective
- Managers seeking career development
- Managers requiring strategies to grow as effective and influential leaders
- Leaders wishing to develop self-awareness and personal effectiveness
- Organisational development professionals specialised in human resources
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.
Yogesh Sharda has been a personal development trainer and workshop facilitator for over 30 years presenting hundreds of programmes for businesses, hospitals, universities, youth organisations and local community groups throughout Europe, UK, the Middle East, South East Asia, Australia, USA and Central and South America. He is of Indian heritage born in Malawi, Africa and brought up in London and Oxford, England,
Mr. Sharda has led seminars and trainings on: Stress Free Living, Effective Communication, The Secrets of Self Esteem, Positive Thinking, Team Building, Self-Discovery, The Principles of Inner Leadership, Motivation and Empowerment, Decision Making, The Art of Relaxation and Meditation, Problem Solving through, Appreciative Inquiry, Emotional Intelligence, Anger Management and Personal Excellence.
Clients include: Microsoft, Siemens, IBM, Adidas, Motorola, Ericsson, Barclays Bank, Dow Chemicals, Citibank, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Barilla Foods Italy, Salesforce, Tata Consultancy Services, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, Next, The American Hospital, Hilton Hotel, Swiss Hotel, Marti Hotels and Marinas, Turk Telecom, Central Bank of Nigeria, Koçbank, Bank of America, Bank of Baroda, Media Markt, ODTU, Dubai Petroleum Company, Maruti Suzuki, Habitat Local Agenda 21, AIESEC in Turkey and Switzerland, International Women of Izmir and Xanthi, Dubai ToastMasters Association, Mantra School of Budapest, Film City Hyderabad India, Satyam, Abscon, Maslak Rotary Club, Sisli Etfal Hospital, Bosphorous University, Robert College, Bilkent University Primary School, Middle East Technical University, Kadir Haas University, Marmara University, Girne American University, Eastern Mediterranean University, Pammukkale University, Cukurova University, Sariyer University, St. Gallen University (Switzerland), BITS Pilani College Dubai and Kayad Cyprus.

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).
Participation Fee
Total full package price for participants with single or double room accommodation: 3.700€
We are offering an early bird fee (15%) until 12th of April .
All prices include:– A 5-star resort hotel accommodation
- Breakfast
- Welcome cocktail
- Lunch and refreshments
- Dinner
- Excursion / entrance tickets.
- VIP transportation to the hotel served during the entire seminar.
- Workshop tuition fee
- Educational materials
- Certificate of participation at the end
- one-day excursion with the group led by locals and Instructors
* Extras (upon request):
- Analysis of personal leadership style
- Evaluation of educational and organizational needs for your organisation
- Online support, follow up (possibility of video conference)
- Possibility of private session after the Workshop
Terms and Conditions
- Mode of Payment – The delegate has the option to pay the course fee directly via bank transfer or request to send an invoice to his/her company/sponsor.
- Cancellation / Substitution – Request for seminar cancellation must be made in writing and received two (2) weeks prior to the seminar date. A €300 processing fee will be charged per delegate for each cancellation. Thereafter, we regret that we are unable to refund any fees due, although in such cases we would be happy to welcome a colleague who would substitute for you.
- Hotel Accommodation Full board – is included in the course fee. If you wish to extend your stay contact our team for a reduced corporate rate for a limited number of rooms at the hotel venue.

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.