Lecture

At the invitation of the Consulate General St. Petersburg, I had the honor to speak about my work in the field of human resources and organizational development with a focus on permaculture design at a German-Russian evening. The topic of my presentation was how working principles of permaculture can be used to strengthen resilience in teams and organizations. In a diverse group of 35 people, we had a lively dialogue.

Holistic observation, flexible planning and responsible action are among the basic principles of permaculture. This may sound familiar at first, but a closer look at permaculture’s systemic ways of working reveals important distinguishing features that have the potential to make a big difference. They offer valuable impulses for our everyday leadership and management – especially in these crisis-ridden times.

I was very pleased that the working methods presented met with such a positive response from this very heterogeneous group of participants. Many thanks again to Consul General Dr. Eltje Aderhold for the invitation to the lecture.

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Together with Hanno Burmester (Democracy Lab/Progressive Center) and Katja Jäger (better place lab) I had the pleasure to report in a short impulse and dialogue about the pilot project “Democracy as an everyday working experience“. Topic of the session: “Innovations from within – How do public administration employees become innovation promoters?
The focus was on practical experience in strengthening the innovative capacity of administrative staff. In this context, the conceptual approach of the Learning Journey was presented to promote this by strengthening personal implementation and change competence for the design of participatory development processes in politics, civil society and public administration.

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At the invitation of Lukas Beckmann, I had the great pleasure of participating in the 2016 money summit of the GLS Bank Foundation in Witten/Herdecke with an introductory lecture. The focus was on “Homo civilis et oeconomicus” – the handprint of those people and groups for whom real economic value creation has the purpose of satisfying people’s economic, social and cultural needs.

Subject of my presentation was background, motives and experiences in context of the foundation and development of Europe’s largest women’s cooperative and the establishment of the first women’s start-up centre in Berlin.  You can find out more here.

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