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Focus Areas of Work
In the following, I list my current work fields. While considering the list bear in mind my educational and professional career steps. On the one hand, I hold diplomas in economics as well as in city planning and have an education as a trainer in communications, facilitation and mediation. On the other hand, I gained 30 years of practical experience in the communal administration of a large city. Furthermore, I worked parallel to my administration job for 25 years as a coach giving seminars and trainings as well as accomplishing projects within the tension-filled areas of citizens, administration and politics.
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Seminars, trainings, lectures
Currently, my main field of action is giving seminars and trainings to deepen the knowledge and to offer exercise of methods. These seminars are tailor-made and take into account the participants’ working environment as well as their experience world.
Regarding this topic, I also offer lectures at conferences and workshops.
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Consulting and coaching
Consulting and coaching of leading personnel within business, administration and politics, is a growing field of action resulting from my project and seminar experience.
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Facilitation of development and decision making processes
Beyond processes of citizen participation, there is often the need to facilitate (large) groups target as well as result oriented.
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Moderation of conferences and congresses
Another work area of mine is the moderation of conferences and congresses with methods oriented towards the participants. Thus, making it possible to have a varied mixture of presentations, discussions, experience exchange and consensus oriented elaboration of targets, projects and agreements.
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International activities
Usually, my international activities are moderations of conferences and congresses with methods oriented towards the individual participants. Several times, e.g. in Russia and Turkey, I have used the Zukunftswerkstatt-Methode. In a research project in France and the U.S., mediation has been my core task.
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Citizen participation methods
For regional and national administration authorities I offer consulting, concept elaboration, organisation and moderation as well as accomplishing civic participation methods. On this occasion I propose consensus oriented negotiation and mediation techniques in particular to solve problems and de-escalate conflicts.
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