Training Program «GEIST & Leadership»®
The training program «GEIST & Leadership»® is designed to offer holistic training which is complementary to existing professional education. It combines contemporary insights from the fields of management, ethics, psychology and consciousness research with traditional Asian wisdom teachings.
Communication of solid knowledge enhanced by the use of case studies is directed towards implementing what has been learned in daily leadership. The focus is on personal experience as the path to competent, mindful and wise leadership. The participants are specifically encouraged in their efforts to develop their personal potential and to draw upon it when organizing their daily activities.
«GEIST & Leadership»® enables leaders to approach the major institutional and global issues of our time calmly and purposefully. The training program is based on the «Lassalle-Institut-Modell»® developed by Pia Gyger and Niklaus Brantschen.
The Modell is composed of three distinct modes of insight, reflection and action. Each of these includes three central elements (3 x 3):
- In addition to mental intelligence (IQ), emotional (EQ) and spiritual (SQ) intelligence are given equal attention and encouragement
- Holistically developed intelligence makes it possible to experience how unity, diversity and uniqueness are part of the essential structure of mankind and the plan
- Sustainable action encompasses the individual (micro-), institutional (meso-) and global (macro-) levels
The entire training program covers a total of three years and is composed of three parts:
- Part I is a basic course composed of three seminars
- Part II offers three continuation seminars. These can be attended separately in accordance with the individual participant’s program
- Part III brings in the global perspective and consists of a study trip to the United Nations or an international corporation
Since 2002, this training program has been offered annually and has received highly favorable recognition for its work in the fields of personality and leadership training.
Goals
Participants will be encouraged in their efforts to realize and further develop their professional, methodic, strategic and social competence in a holistic context. Specifically, this means:
- Freeing themselves from ingrained patterns of thinking and behaviour
- Developing their own creative potential and personal vision
- Realizing the advantages of ethical behaviour
- Having a lasting effect on corporate and global processes in a constantly changing world thanks to their connection with their own deep center
- Shaping businesses and institutions to allow for meeting the needs of today’s and future generation
- Finding their unique place in the whole system in order to serve humanity and the planet