empowerment

18 new Radical Collaboration® trainers in the euforia community and new trainings coming up soon!

We are happy to have a bunch of freshly certified Radical Collaboration®  trainers in our community and to offer the first trainings in and around Switzerland. Together with our Chief Euphoric Officer Chantal, who became a trainer one year ago, we are now 19 trainers – the only ones in Switzerland!

Jim Tamm, the creator of the Radical Collaboration® methodology, and the psychologist and Radical Collaboration® trainer Malou Laureys facilitated the seven-day Trainer Certification course for 18 euforians in Geneva. The course was a deep-dive into the topic with a lot of space for reflections and discussions. The two trainers gave a great example on how radically collaborating creates an atmosphere where people complement each other and can flexibly come up with new solutions. Jim and Malou were happy to have the chance to train Radical Collaboration® trainers in a new country and to open up opportunities for a new group of young participants.

The aim of euforians to become certified trainers is to create more training opportunities for people within and from outside of the community. From now on Radical Collaboration® trainings will be offered regularly. Check out the next trainings:

 

March 24th to 26th
(only 2 spots left!)

March 31st to April 2nd
(12 spots available)

 

More trainings will come up in May and in Summer. You will find more information soon in our calendar. If you would like to book a training for your organization, get in touch with us!

 

What contains the three-day Radical Collaboration® training?
The three-day, highly interactive Radical Collaboration training is designed to teach people five very practical and immediately useful skills essential to building collaborative relationships between individuals and within teams and organizations. It is appropriate for anyone whose circumstances have the potential for disharmony, misunderstandings and conflict, and who would like to improve their effectiveness. It is also particularly helpful for individuals responsible for creating more collaborative environments within a team or organization. It provides participants with step by step tools how to initiate, lead and reach closure in negotiations and how to build successful long-term relationships.

 
 

Reinvening euforia: reflection day

DSC07938.jpg

Reinventing euforia: Come to the euforic reflection day and let's tap into all our potential - 11 December 10h-18h / 20.15h - Bern

euforia is all of us, partners, volunteers, staff, boosters alike. It's the changes all of us have co-created and experienced thanks to our involvement!
We have collectively felt many signals that it's time to completely reinvent euforia's form of organisation. For impact, wellbeing, sustainability and awesomeness (for us individually collectively and the world)!

What has happened so far:
If you have followed past announcements, you know that we have started our reinventing journey by re-imagining our values, purpose and principles.

What will happen now:
For the next stage, we invite you very warmly to Bern on 11 Dec in order to think further:

10h - 18h- for everybody
What is needed to unleash yours and euforia’s potential to get to our stars (Values, Purpose, Principles)?  
How can we tap into all the potential that is within us, all the resources that are both within us, between us and in our relations?

18.15 - 20.15h - for euforia ex-volunteers, etplers and experts in any domain
Would you like to be part of the support structure of our new transformative, collaborative, self-managed programmes The Unleash Project/Rev Lab?
Come and discover the new programmes, the structure inspired by holacracy/teal and the support roles YOU could fill to help teams & programme flourish!

Let's dream together, use all our sensing & imagination in a fun and reflective day!

You are important! Come and sign up here!

Hugs from and to all!

Join "Recipes for Wellbeing" next wellbeing retreat!

An increasing amount of research points to the rising levels of burnout for entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs. Reaching this point of extreme physical and emotional fatigue inhibits changemakers’ ability to thrive and to create positive change in the world.

Recipes for Wellbeing wants to find solutions to these challenge by creating and spreading a culture of wellbeing in the field of changemaking. How can you get involved? Go to our online platform to discover a diverse collection of recipes to cultivate wellbeing in your everyday work and life.

If you want to take your commitment to wellbeing to the next level, JOIN our next wellbeing retreat in Palermo, Italy with fellow changemakers from Europe and the Middle-East. It will take place from the 18th (11am) to the 20th (9am) December. The participation fee is of 100 euros and you would need to cover for your train/flight, the accommodation is all covered by Recipes for Wellbeing. This is a unique chance for you to start 2017 with a boost of wellbeing.

Want to join? Write an e-mail to alessia@euforia.ch.

Watson U Applications Open

 

>>> Invitation by Watson U

Watson University has opened its applications for its 2017 semesters and the degree track. It’s a great opportunity for young (18-23 yrs) social innovators you may know.

Watson U is a new model of higher education designed and tailored for young social entrepreneurs. 30 promising leaders from around the world are convened in Boulder, Colorado, where they start and advance ventures aimed at alleviating some of the world’s most urgent problems.

Early app deadline is October 10th, and you or any or your friends or colleagues can apply at www.watsonuniversity.org/apply

Feel free to email megan@watsonuniversity.org with any questions

Website: www.watsonuniversity.org/apply

Changemaker Toolbox: Flashmob

You recently discovered the health benefits of singing and dancing and you are wondering why people are still walking in the street rather than taking a moon walk to work. Talking about it has inspired one or two of your friends to shake their limbs more often and now you decide it is time to inspire a larger audience. You call your friends and you conspire on an easy and simple to share choreography that you can teach to 10 more friends. You agree on a time and at which you can show up in a public space blast your favourite song, kick off your dancing, singing, limb shaking choreography together and inspire as many people around you to sing and dance along. Your video savvy friends capture the action that later in the day goes viral online. You have successfully reached your objective of bringing the health benefits of singing and dancing to a larger crowd, had fun in the process, practiced radical collaboration skills with your friends and a bunch of strangers who are now friends in dancing singing spirit. In order to replicate in the future, here the small flashmob recepy:

1. Pick something you want to make visible (benefit of hugging, recycling garbage, planting flowers in the city)

1. Pick something you want to make visible (benefit of hugging, recycling garbage, planting flowers in the city)

 
2. Rally up a group of friends.

2. Rally up a group of friends.

3. Decide on a choreography, course of action.

3. Decide on a choreography, course of action.

 
4. Agree on a time and public place in which you can meet and kick off your routine.

4. Agree on a time and public place in which you can meet and kick off your routine.

5. Meet and at the agreed time give your all – blast the music, plant trees and flowers, yarn bomb a statue – you name it.

5. Meet and at the agreed time give your all – blast the music, plant trees and flowers, yarn bomb a statue – you name it.

 
6. Make a movie to document and share.

6. Make a movie to document and share.

7. Celebrate your awesomeness and debrief with your friends.

7. Celebrate your awesomeness and debrief with your friends.