Lab 2
Dr. Achim Goeres and Dr. Tanja Hetzer
with Dr. Olga Heismann, Kristina Loge, Giulia Molinengo and Franklin Tchoumbou
DIVERSITY - A CHANCE FOR EUROPE?!
SLOW FLOW - New Aproach to Group Work
22 April 2016 from 10 am to 6 pm
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The people in Europe are challenged more than ever in their stance over diversity and living together in society. A flow of suffering people who are searching for help and a home in Europe awaken fears of losing the habitual privileges of personal safety and prosperity and confronts with personal responsibilities for economic injustice in the world. The necessity to find a consensus on highly complex questions in a cooperation of international forces puts an additional strain on the “European idea” and the solidarity of the European nations. In this situation, when confronting the unknown, people are challenged to discover the inner gate to the true inner wealth of vitality, rather than to get stuck within knee-jerk defence reactions created by inner images and prejudices.
When exposed to this kind of stress fields, we are reminded of the old, collective traumas of war experiences and economic misery that many of the affected people and their descendants in Europe are still facing. Additionally, this confrontation increases our awareness about the driving forces of global conflicts and the European responsibility within the global exploitation mechanisms. Thus, when trying to step into a relationship with each other in order to work on the diversity in our societies, we urgently need a strong protection against the heat and vehemence of the arising collective energies. Only then are we able to open up to our own inner plurality when facing the other and experience a deep gratification and vitality together.
In the workshop, we will create a safe space where we can work on our relationships to the foreign and the challenging in a very slow mode. “Slow Flow” is a further development of Processwork's group process that allows an extensive slowing down of the collective dynamics. Furthermore, we will clearly define the space of the collective experience, concentrate on a small number of exemplary roles and will abstain from a verbal dispute most of the time, since it can easily result in unrestrained escalation. Instead, we will create a space for sentient body awareness and mindful movement. This sentient experience will be a great help to find an inner stability also in potentially traumatizing situations.
Working in small groups, we will develop a small range of roles that represent diversity and limits in relationships as we experience them, and will then bring them back into the focus of the whole group. There, in a defined field of collective energy, we will systematically work on the relationships to and between these roles one after the other and finally all together. We will then connect these experiences to our everyday's life in small group exercises as well as in the plenary session.
Workshop hours: 10-13 hrs, 15-18 hrs
Language: English and German
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Number of praticipation is limited to 100. (50 with donor and standard rate, 50 with social and global fairness rate). First come first serve. Your seat is guaranteed as we receive your payment.
Subject to modifications. Last update: 28.12.2015.
The Team
Dr. rer. nat Achim Goeres
Coach and supervisor, astrophysicist and musician, Berlin
During his research as a post-doctoral astrophysicist, Achim has been inspired by a training in Processwork (1992 – 1998, based on Arnold Mindell's work) to further explore inter-disciplinarity, the nature of human understanding and humans as such. As a process facilitator he has since worked as a coach, supervisor and facilitator, with managers, entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organisations as well as in teaching and continuous professional development in Higher Education institutions. Together with Tanja Hetzer he founded in 2008 the Hanuman Institute in Berlin for coaching, process facilitation and supervision. Together, they offer a training course in N-process-facilitation and process-oriented coaching. Every summer he gives concerts as an organist in the Swiss Mountains.
www.hanuman-institut.de
Dr. phil. Tanja Hetzer
In the '90s Tanja was engaged in refugee work and feminist politics in Switzerland where she was born with a German family background. In this decade she did her PhD in History at the University of Sussex (GB) in the field of anti-Semitism and nationalism in the 20th century and was working as a historian in international historical research projects (e.g. Bergier-Commission). Following her dream to combine history and psychology she met Processwork in 2003. 2011 she finished her studies in Process oriented Psychology at the Institute of Processwork in Zürich (IPA) and received her Diploma.
Together with Achim Goeres she founded the Hanuman Institute in Berlin. She is teaching intercultural and interdisciplinary seminars at various universities, facilitates group processes, supervises teams and works with individuals in her private practice. Since 2008 she regularly conducts historical and psychological workshops focussing on the long-term psychological effects of National Socialism, war and holocaust in the second and third generations. She has specialized on trans-generational transference of (collective) trauma. She loves movement, is dedicated to African dance and loves to do her yoga on the peaks of Swiss Alpes in the summer.
www.hanuman-institut.de
Co-Facilitators
Dr. Olga Heismann
Born in the South of Ukraine, Olga moved to Hamburg together with her family at the beginning of her school time. Already as a small child, she discovered her fascination for mathematics, which led her to studying mathematics with a following PhD at TU Berlin. Currently Olga applies her mathematical skills at a startup company in Berlin.
In 2009, she came in contact with Processwork at Achim's and Tanja's course at TU Berlin for the first time. This was the discovery of a new world that resulted in the training course in N-process-facilitation and process-oriented coaching at the Hanuman Institute. Combining her passion for improvisational theater as well as her experience as a course leader at a Multinational Pupil’s Academy and a workshop leader for pupils she has a special interest in the complex group dynamics and its facilitation. Since 2014 she has facilitated several seminars for students based on Processwork.
In her leisure time, Olga likes being in movement – as a passionate runner sometimes for 42 km at a stretch or vertically along rock walls.
Kristina Loge
Kristina has a German-Russian background. She spent her childhood in South Ural and her youth in Rhineland Palatinate. After school, she went to Berlin to study Environmental Engineering, to work and live there.
Already in her childhood, she had a big interest in interpersonal relationships and the living together of people and was wondering what it needs to make co-living as pleasant as possible. While studying, she was a group leader and trainer for group and seminar leaders in a volunteer organization for several years. She got in touch with Processwork for the first time in 2003 when she visited the course "Interdisciplinary Communication" at the Technical University Berlin. Since then she did not let go of Processwork and in 2014 she completed the training N-Process-Facilitation and Process Oriented Coaching at the Hanuman Institute in Berlin. After working for many years in the international solar industry she now works as quality manager in Berlin. Furthermore, she is active as a process oriented facilitator and coach.
In her spare time she likes to make and to listen to music, and likes being on the road, preferably using her feet.
Giulia Molinengo
Giulia was born in a small village close to the Alps in Northern Italy. After her BA in Mediation and Conflict Management in Firenze, she moved to Kosovo to work with an Italian NGO on a project providing informations on migration opportunities from Kosovo to Italy. At the age of 23 she moved to Germany (Berlin) to continue her studies in Intercultural Conflict Management (MA).
Over her past seven years in Germany, Giulia worked first as facilitator and moderator of participatory processes, by focusing especially on the establishment of intercultural and transdisciplinary networks of collaboration among practitioners in the field of urban planning. Currently she is working as researcher on the question of how to involve citizens and other relevant stakeholders in the early planning phase of big infrastructure projects.
The encounter with Process Work in 2011 allowed Giulia to deepen her strong interests for topics such as conflict and diversity and to develop new ways to approach them, both in her professional and private life. In 2014 she completed her training course in N-Process-Facilitation and Process-oriented Coaching at the Hanuman Institute.
Giulia loves traveling. Writing is her way to express her being as “multi-local” human.
Franklin Tchoumbou
Due to his great interest in communication and cultural competences, he took a course given by Tanja Hetzer and Achim Goeres in interdisiplinary communication while studying at the Berlin Institute of Technology. After taking this course he was interested in learning more and he started a three-year training course in „N-Prozess-Moderation“ and process coaching alongside his studies. In 2014 he started to moderate small groups, including courses with Olga Heismann and Tanja Hetzer. His main focus is on racism and rank dynamics.
His hobbies include boxing and kickboxing, and he is also a passionate marathon runner.
Dr. Achim Goeres
Dr. Tanja Hetzer
Dr. Olga Heismann
Kristina Loge
Giulia Molinengo
Franklin Tchoumbou
