Supervisor (SD),Trainer (SD)
T 2 / 12, 68161 Mannheim
Phone/Fax: 0621/ 2 99 99 20
www.Christiane-Schmidt.de
You will be a member of a training group whose participants
from various nations gather for the individual training phases. The
group has a contract guarantee through the binding cooperation
with the organisation which offers and conducts this training.
The
specific cooperation with the organisation, with the persons
chairing the training in the invidividual phases, and with the group
which organises the learning process as international group,
guarantee the scope of the training and also define the subjects as
well as the working contents of the learning system.
Such a
learning system will offer you as member of the group the possibility
to experience the long-term development of an international group,
to learn to understand while observing, and to explore in a designing
way. In the current group situation, you will analyse the specific
options and difficulties of the development of your
internationally learning group.
As member of the international learning system, you will
experience to what extent such a group is dependent on the fact that
its members mobilise all their available skills to be able to
communicate at all.
The significance of communication and
language mediation in such a group is thus not a problem to
be dealt with theoretically or merely on the organisational level,
but is experienced as of vital importance if all members of the group
contribute to mutual communication and understanding.
Within the
framework of this training, the individual group members have to
communicate in the English and/or German language as foreign
language. They also should be prepared to and capable of
guaranteeing the continuously required language mediation themselves.
It is only by this way that leadership skills such as
thorough listening, posing of relevant questions, clear definition of
statements, recognition of the diversity of communication acts on
various levels, the structuring of group communication, and a clear
understanding between several foreign languages are acquired or
deepened.
In international group processes, national groups
(as well as approaching these or distancing from these groups) also
determine the relationship quality within the group. Because
as soon as the members start a discussion via the intercultural
problems of their group development, they begin to reflect on their
being a group. They start to excercise meta communication.
The capability to discuss the group and its communication within
the group is of particular importance for the design of international
group processes. Meta communication creates language about the way
the members perceive themselves, about relationships, the current
mental state, and the objectives of the group. It promotes the
working capabilty of the group.
Thus, in a learning system, the
capabilities and skills the individual group members as leading
persons contribute to the group from the beginning, are to be
used in order for the joint learning process to be a success. Where
limits of abilities and skills are observed, these may be
experimentally extended in an observing, reflecting way and
within the group.
Within this two-year learning process,
different typical phenomens of international group developments
will be experienced and to be dealt with by the group. Experiencing
such a group process alone extends the personal scope for action and
the social capabilities with which the group members influence
themselves and determine the group process.
As a support of this
learning process, the phenomens to be observed will continuously be
examined based on several theoretical models. The model-based
understanding of the group processes experienced on the one hand
serve a thorough evaluation of the situation from various
perspectives. This is contributed to by group-dynamic,
communication-theoretical, and system-theoretical approaches which
promote insight into the laws of group development and the basis for
systemic thinking.
On the other hand, skills such as roll
flexibility and roll distance are exercised by examining the
present situation, thus extending the view on the situation and its
evaluation. Furthermore, the distanced observance of the situation
from various points of view leads to a more realistic
self-assessment as leader of international group processes and
clear personal attitude and broad competences for action.
This training is based on the working form of the
situation-dynamic training.
The theoretical concept of
situation dynamics is based on social-psychologic knowledge and its
applied working forms as well as the insights on which
system-theoretically-based counselling approaches and adult education
are based on.
Depending on the subject focus and the relevant
state of the learning sytsem, theoretical models as well as working
forms are used in a variable way.
As is the case in traditional
group-dynamic training, the focus is always on the work of the
training group in the here and now. The current experience
and the design of the group processes by all members involved are
subject, contents and objective of the joint work.
Furthermore,
the situation-dynamic training focuses on targeted, intentional
work. This means that the training intentions and objectives
formulated by the members at the beginning are to be accompanied
continuously within the learning process and are to be achieved in
the best possible way.
This concept is thus formulated such that
you may variably design some training steps depending
on your own experiences and interest focus as leader of international
group processes (see basic qualification)
5-day basic training: design of international group
development, leadership and group functions, international
relationships
5-day cooperation training: planning,
performance and reflection of team work within the learning system,
design of working units of the training by member teams,
Concept
work: development of own organisation concepts and presentation
of the written concept for evaluation through the training
supervisors 8 weeks prior to start of the training at the latest.
Leadership/co-leadership of international events, minimum
requirement: 5 days, bilateral group process, leadership mandate by
the organising institution.
5-day training on personal
leadership skills: Reflection of hitherto learning processes from
biographical, colleague and organisational (also institutional,
historical, and cultural) points of view.
Self-evaluation: Self-description as leader of
international group processes with feedback from the training
supervisors
5-day intention training: "Farewell into the
future " reflection of the entire learning processes with a
view to the future, award of the certificates and farewell to the
learning system.
The participation in the four training sessions is binding
for all members of the learning systems in order to be able to
guarantee a continuous learning process within the group for a period
of approx. 2 years.
In order to obtain the basic qualification
as leader of international group processes, the preparation of a
self-evaluation as leader of international group processes is a
prerequisite. If you already possess long-term experience in the
leadership of international group processes, you may see the
prescribed written concept work for the preparation of a
presently planned international event as voluntary work and conduct
it, if required.
The concept work is recommended if you intend to
lead an international event in the course of your training and
wish to further work on it in the following training sessions. As
experience shows, deepened learning processes are the result.
This
recommendation above all applies to participants without or only
few experience in the leadership of international group
processes. In this case, concept work as well as leadership and
co-leadership of international events are to be embedded in the
learning process to be able to use training experiences in leadership
practise and to further develop them in the course of the following
training.
Together with you?
Just call me!
Christiane Schmidt, Counselling practice
Supervisor
(SD),Trainer (SD)
T 2 / 12, 68161 Mannheim
Phone/Fax: 0621/ 2
99 99 20
www.Christiane-Schmidt.de