Building resilience
Course description
Organisations are microcosms of the wider world currently faced with many challenges such as constant change, bureaucracy, strained relationships, and lack of motivation and vision. These all take their toll on the quality of teaching as well as learning results.
Individuals understand that change and sustainability go hand in hand. Being sustainable requires knowing how to interpret signals to adapt to the external environment.
When we are overwhelmed by negativity, the positive approach of Appreciative Inquiry offers tools and perspectives to deal with increasing demands.
Institutions and organizations are preparing the next generations for a future facing uncertainty fuelled in part by the immense technological, demographic, economic and political changes we face. Within the parameters of the systems in which we work, the capacity for resilience is becoming a key competency. The quality of self-management directly affects the quality of collaboration, co-creation and learning.
Our aim is to teach participants how to:
- Grow individual and collective resilience in institutions and organizations
- Reclaim the joy of learning together within system parameters
- Rebuild trust in oneself and others
- Create generative space where everybody shines
- Facilitate positive relationships key for good learning results.
Methodology
This course is highly experiential, practical and interactive based on scientific research and the extensive use of the practical tools. We use a combination of techniques in order to help you adapt them to your own temperament and style. Intercultural diversity and the context of the external environment become resources we work with to create tools for connection. The variety and combination of elements in each workshop is unique.
The interactive exercises are structured for groups ranging from small team processes to large conference groups employing group dynamic and participatory techniques.
The course builds on proven methods for positive change:
- Appreciative Leadership
- Connecting (non-nviolent) communication with oneself and others
- Methods of Participatory Design
- Collaborative Change Processes
- Mindfulness and Embodied Self-management
- Systemic approach to change management
Participants receive a toolkit of methods easily transferable to educational settings.
Benefits
The course offers practical tools to build resilience through individual and collective learning to face challenges and change. Participants learn generative perspective as a means to deal with challenging situations.
The course builds trainers, facilitators and educators’ trust and self-trust in times of immense societal changes to become the best versions of themselves by using proven methods that build resilient and appreciative perception, reflection and action.
The participants gain:
Insights into the theoretical foundations of systemic appreciative approaches, solution-focused methods, and participative tools for supervision and coaching
A map of the current situation of the organization or individuals (skills, output capacity, organization and personal effectiveness, adequacy of available resources)
The opportunity to practice in a variety of different techniques, new perspectives and alternative ways of dealing with urgent and important issues
A chance to try out a reflective and flexible coaching role as an observer or even as supervisor/coach and supervisee/coachee (developing a positive perspective).
Programme
This workshop is highly experiential and participatory. It consists of short theoretical lessons, practical exercises and group discussions. By reflecting upon and applying each tool to your real-life cases, you practise and gain new insights into your current dilemmas.
Participants learn to:
- Foster resilience and appreciative attitude in individuals, teams and organisations
- Reclaim integrity, passion and vision as leader, trainer, educator, etc.
- Build a culture of positive challenges
- Cultivate positive (inner) dialogue during change / in intense situations
- Handle conflict as opportunity to connect and co-create solutions that work for all
- Incorporate appreciative and systemic teaching and learning
- Opening and introduction: presentations, learning goals and contract
- Aligning individual and collective learning goals for the week
- Future carousel (experiential method transferable to learning contexts)
- Theory of change (Change levels, Theory of U)
- Introduction and framework of Appreciative inquiry (SOAR Model)
- From downloading to generative listening
Local Evening – welcome reception
- Opening and introduction: presentations, learning goals and contract
- Aligning individual and collective learning goals for the week
- Future carousel (experiential method transferable to learning contexts)
- Theory of change (change levels, Theory U)
- Introduction and framework of Appreciative Inquiry from a Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results (SOAR) Model perspective
- From downloading to generative listening
Local Evening – welcome reception
- Reflection circle
- Participatory processes and tools for building coalitions
- Homegroup learning teams (practice)
- Self empathy: tool for building intrapersonal resilience
- Embodied self-management for staying centred in intense situations
- Conflict transformation for building collective resilience and co-creating solutions that work for all
- Reflecting Teams
- Mindfulness practice
- Increasing cultural awareness (knowledge about cultural adaptation)
- Coping with prejudices – strategies and attitudes
- Multicultural awareness
- Reflecting Teams
- Morning check in opening round
- Discovering and mobilising sources of resilience in environment
- Experiential circle reflection: co-affirming gifts, talents and sources of resilience
- Reactive resilience: reaction and strength-based coping capacities
- Proactive resilience: transformation and transformational capacities
- Reflecting Teams
- Team coaching and/or supervision (hidden dynamics)
- Co-learning from nature and other resilient environments
- Walking reflection
- Reflecting Teams
- Morning check in opening round
- Evaluation / Integration
- Feedback – working groups and journaling
- Sharing and processing round for the whole group
- Practical implementation (your personal action plan)
- Debriefing and closing
Duration: 6 days (Start at 10:00 am on Monday – End at 14:00 on Saturday)
Location: Chania Area, Crete, Greece
Designed for participants/groups
This workshop is designed for managers, psychologists, social workers, counsellors, personal and professional development specialists and for staff of institutions and organizations.
Participants learn how to identify and adapt to meaningful signals while keeping to goals and principles. State-of-the-art techniques oriented towards self-organization, knowledge management and collective intelligence are applied.
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.
Evelyn Soidla (MA in Education)
With more than 25 years of experience as a lecturer, trainer, mentor, advisor, supervisor and coach (member of the board of the Estonian Supervision and Coaching Association and level 6 supervisor, member of ICF), partner for managers and teams of different levels both in the Estonian and international organizations, both in the private and public sector.
After my first education as a language scientist, I entered the International Supervision and Coaching Institute. The supervisor and coach training helped to systematize and integrate the previous experiences. Today, I have acquired a personal style on how I work with people, teams and organizations – I am influenced by NLP, psychodrama, process work, solution-oriented approach, creative techniques, appreciative research, systemic approach and constellation work.
Currently, I am happy to realize my dream of training leaders, managers, educators in a management style based on coaching, team building, building organizational culture, self-management, resilience, healthy and unhealthy boundaries, conflict resolution methods, burnout and stress reduction. I have experience in training adults since 2001.
I collaborate in the field of supervision and coaching with many public and private sector organizations that operate in various spheres – from the social sphere, education and healthcare to business. I consider my speciality to be the knowledge of both the conscious and subconscious laws of organisational management and functioning, and working with issues of ‘misplaced’ positions and hierarchies. I also work with all kinds of hidden dynamics and the resulting difficulties in the organisation and the team, change management and team engagement.
I have published various articles on the topic of change in the field of education and business.
I am grateful that I have had the honor to be a member of the board of the Estonian Supervision and Coaching Association for 2 years and to contribute to the development of supervision and coaching. Everything that happens in the field of education is close to my heart.
I am grateful to the managers, teams and organizations I have worked with. I believe in positive changes, I believe in the great potential of teams. – Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture just reflects the realities of people working together every day – Hesselbein. I am there to support them.
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
ption 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: 1,490€:
Total full package price for participants with double room accommodation: 1,750€:
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 full-day excursion with the group led by locals with local snacks and drinks – €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.