We sincerely invite you to join the program “Leadership Experience Group: Reflections on Leadership. Development and Support of Leaders in Conditions of Uncertainty and Rapid Change.”

We sincerely invite you to join the program “Leadership Experience Group: Reflections on Leadership. Development and Support of Leaders in Conditions of Uncertainty and Rapid Change.”
 
Are you a leader of an organization, community, business, department, your group, or your own project? Are you the person who organizes processes, manages people, is creative and hardworking? Then you definitely have experience of both successes and difficult times. But in the face of modern challenges, you are at the top of the pyramid of your organization or process, where your team relies on you, and it’s not always easy for you to get support because «you’re already so strong...»
 
In a group of other leaders and experienced trainers, we will strengthen our ability to overcome obstacles together.
 
You will learn and practice:
— How to endure and overcome high workloads, often overload, in conditions of uncertainty and prolonged stress while remaining effective.
— What is interaction diagnosis: recurring patterns, conflicts of interest, conscious and unconscious contracts.
— How to enhance emotional and other types of intelligence. Dialogue and group work. How to extrapolate experience into the work of a team.
— Rules for creating a safe space in a team: exploring roles, boundaries, attitudes toward authority and tasks.
— Post-traumatic growth even during traumatic and/or difficult conditions, without waiting for «better times.»
— Understanding and practical effectiveness of intercultural interaction, diversity, and authenticity, their significance in the modern world. The impact of family models on professional interactions.
— And much more that is essential in our work and lives in these challenging times.
 
Event Leaders:
 
Dr Kevin Flinn is Senior Lecturer in Executive Education at Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.
 
Kevin's teaching, research, and community interests revolve around leadership and OD with a special (and specialist) focus on complexity and group analytic perspectives on management, organisation, change, and citizenship.
 
He is a graduate of the Doctor of Management (DMan — The Doctor of Management programme was developed at the University of Hertfordshire some twenty-five years ago by Professor Ralph Stacey and colleagues, in collaboration with the IGA)  programme, a qualified Group Work Practitioner with the Institute of Group Analysis, and a founding member of the Creating Large Group Dialogue programme and research community.
 
A second edition of his first book, Leadership Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach, was published by Routledge in October 2023, and his second book, Organisational Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach, is due out in 2025.
 
Iryna Ratzke-Rybak (Ukraine-Germany), psychologist, supervisor, training analyst, group analyst, couples and family therapist.
Iryna has more than 20 years of experience as a therapist and training analyst in individual and group therapy, 10 of them in the regional clinical hospital with various psychosomatic disorders.
She is a member of the Presidium of the Association of Psychologists and Psychotherapists of Ukraine (APPU) and head of the Department of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Couples and Families (Ukraine). She is an EFPP Delegate from the Department of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Couples and Families from the APPA in the Department of Couple and Family Psychotherapy. She is a valid GASI member. She is a guest lecturer at the Evangelisches Bildungswerk Regensburg (Germany). Certified Master Trainer in Mental Health, focusing on trauma psychotherapy and PTSD treatment, Community Stress Prevention Centre מרכז משאבים (Israel). Founder of the Khmelnytsky School of Psychotherapy (Ukraine).
Iryna is a private practitioner and founding director of the Creative Laboratory for Human Development «Lebenskompetenzen», Regensburg (Germany).
Iryna provides group psychological and psychosocial support to women and children forced to migrate from Ukraine to Germany at EBW (Evangelical Academy).
 
Event Format
 
The program will be held online on the Zoom platform in both English and Ukrainian, with consecutive interpretation. Therefore, knowledge of English is a plus in the candidate selection process, but it is not mandatory for participation.
 
**Registration and Participant Selection** 
The number of participants is limited. The group is partially selected through a competitive process. 
To register, please fill out the form at  https://forms.gle/NZXtXfZVdG8UYsVo7  by September 30. The first event will take place on October 12. 
 
Participation in the program involves a charitable contribution starting from 1000 UAH, which will be used to cover translation and organizational costs. The contribution can be made through the link: [hrvector.org/pyidtrimati-nas](http://hrvector.org/pyidtrimati-nas). The event leaders and organizers will work voluntarily as their contribution to the development of Ukraine’s leadership potential. The event is organized by the NGOs «Human Rights Vector» and «IPSI.»
 
How Will We Work Together?
 
The influence of participants on each other, exchange of experiences, and mutual learning within a community of managers and leaders is a key element of the group's work. 
We will interact as a community of manager-researchers in a process of joint exploration. Cooperative inquiry is a method developed by John Heron, which involves two or more people exploring a topic through their own experience, using a series of cycles where they move between experience and collective reflection on it. 
In addition to creating reflective narratives about our experiences and sharing them, we will together create what will help us express something from our experience, such as objects, collages, art, photography, sculpture, poetry, film, and music. 
The experience gained from the current events will be used to develop future educational and support programs.
 
Event Topics and Dates
 
Events will take place on the following dates: October 12, 2024; November 2, 2024; December 7, 2024; January 4, 2025; December 1, 2025; March 3, 2025. The dates are confirmed, but may change depending on current conditions.
 
Event Topics:
 
— Supporting assistants, leaders, and managers – developing and maintaining the ability to work with complexity and uncertainty. 
— Caring for leaders – promoting and supporting the development of more democratic and inclusive ways of working and living together. 
— Creative work with differences. 
— Co-creating and supporting spaces where creativity, innovation, and collaboration can thrive. 
— And other topics essential for our work and life in these challenging times.
 
For any questions, please contact us via email: hrvector.org@gmail.com

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