Dates:
25.05. 2024, 11.00-21.00
26.05. 2024, 11.00-21.00
Venue:
DOCK 11
Kastanienallee 79
10435 Berlin
More details and registration:
adrianachiruta.com/leadership
adrianachiruta@yahoo.com
100 € / person: for groups of 3 or more than 3
150 € /person: duo registration with a friend/colleague
150 € /person: early bird discount until 1st of May
200 €: normal price
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
**More than ever, humanity needs intelligent and warm-hearted guides toward a
more desirable future.
Would you like to be one of them?
If your answer is yes, let`s meet for a whole weekend training in M.E.E.T.S method for embodying leadership: Mind + Extension + Emotions + Trust + Seduction, 5 key steps to navigate any crisis with grace, brainpower and determination.**
Whether you're a seasoned leader or just starting out, this in-person event will equip you with the skills, insights and practical strategies to embody sustainable leadership effectively, no matter what comes your way. In a complex, yet relaxing and entertaining workshop, I will offer you a set of techniques used by the most magnetic performers, oriental and occidental as well, to attract the focus, hearts and minds of the audience in a story of togetherness.
We will explore, train and refine 5 main ingredients for really embodying leadership, not just talking about it, and for really growing, even in times of crises, a nurturing relation with ourselves and with the others. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your leadership skills and to shine, even through crises, like a pro!
Here is the menu of the two days:
25th of May / first day
1st trainings: THE MIND TRAINING (11 AM to 1 PM)
Before acting, we will mind our minds first. The observer's mind, collecting as many fresh data and possible' perspectives, tasting reality as much as we can, fresh, unbiased. We will train our beginner`s mind, Shoshin, as the Japanese call it, or zero point, as it is called and trained in theatre. The fresh beginning of it all! The mind that sees opportunities where everyone else sees only obstacles. We will also proceed toward our own neutral body, dissolving little by little, through all kind of exercises, our tension patterns into active relaxation, learning how to avoid burnouts in the future. Correct actions are impossible without correct thinking. But what does a good thinker do?
2nd trainings: EXTENSION TRAINING (3 PM to 7PM)
We will go deeper exploring our neutral body, freeing ourselves more from the usual patterns of tension. This time we will take the path of embodying imagination, extending ourselves to our full immensity, and moving out in that process of all kind of blockages and automatisms of fear or untrust in ourselves. We will also use some psychosomatic practices for embodying a superior status that will help us confront with elegance any power games, even the most bullying ones, in the future. As Rumi said: `"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."
Free Dance with our Neutral & Extended Bodies (7PM to 9PM)
26 of May / second day
3rd trainings: EMOTIONAL ENERGY TRAINING (11 AM to 1 PM)
Emotions (e-motions) are the most powerful generator of movement, of action, the main fuel for our will to do something or to avoid it. We will learn to listen to our emotional body signals and dynamics, with its legitimate yeses and nos, to build coherence, not blockages, when motivating ourselves and others. Many times when things seem blocked outside, they are first blocked in you. As fear builds fear and constricted bodies and minds, lessening us and being the first step toward failure, we will focus on pleasure as an empowerment tool and on the way pleasure builds pleasure and growth, being a real force. We will learn some techniques to let go everything that is blocking us in our dance with our possibilities, and move boldly forward, building a different show in a desired scenario, starting with now and with the resources of the present! As Seneca said: “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire."
4th trainings: TRUST TRAINING (3 PM to 7 PM)
The first three trainings will offer you a practical toolkit to explore and enjoy your potential. The next two ones, starting with this, is about the quality of our relations and about ways of growing, enjoyably, their potential, maybe even in view of a desirable social change toward a better future. The main ingredient for best relationships, including with ourselves, is trust. No collective game is possible without it.
We will work on some simple principles & rules, that, when clear for everyone, equal for all, and practiced by all, proved themselves, in science and in art as well, as the best ingredients to not let egos stop and block the collective potential or the game of different perspectives that is always enriching in our travel toward good ideas and solutions. As creativity destroys competitiveness, we will practice some creative solutions and exercises for avoiding group thinking, biases, Einstellung effect. We will explore also the rhythm of organic growth in nature, and of organic, constructive cooperation: Jo, Ha, Kyu. All to prepare us for the fruits of shared trust and togetherness.
5th trainings & final rehearsals: SEDUCTION TRAINING (7 PM to 9 PM)
Leaders are social actors and ideally, actors of a desirable social change in our world of multiple crisis. So if you want to prepare your body and mind to move and to act in thriving work-games even in crisis times and to be a creator, together with your team, of a more desirable future, I look forward to meet you and to train with you!
As a performing arts professional, philosopher and multimedia artist, it will be a pleasure for me to train you in some of the best occidental and oriental practices from performing arts, with a series of beautiful, efficient shortcuts and simple, relaxing exercises that will help you perform like a trustful and visionary leader, in thriving work games, even on the most difficult stages and to be a creator, together with your team, of a more desirable future!
These workshop is the result of over 20 years of practices and explorations in the area of Eastern and Western theatrical forms, contemporary dance and improvisation, all combined with my background in philosophy, cognitive sciences and passion for new research related to resilience through art & post-traumatic growth through some practical, simple ways, available to each of us in everyday life.
Testimonials:
Adriana's workshops were and always are an occasion for joy, relaxed play, exploration of the body and its limits, intimacy and community. Her contained practices help you breathe fully and give freedom to the imagination of the child inside you.
Luiza Alexandru (journalist & cultural mediator)
„I liked your workshops! I needed them. Usually I am the one who organizes events and takes care of everything. It was good for me to be a participant, not an organizer/leader of something. I love dancing and getting lost in it. I recognized some practices, but your style was different from what I've met so far. I felt free; I felt that I could be myself. I was most impacted by the mirrored dance, when I expressed sadness. It was so unique and profound for me to see and feel that someone can be there for me when I feel sad and when life seems hard. I think a weekend retreat with all the exercises you've been thinking of would be great! Thanks for the experiences! I love your dedication!”
Alexandra Mandache (yoga instructor & therapist)
"For me, this workshop was super beneficial, because I learned or relearned to play, with myself and also with others, I learned totally new things. I liked your style of showing us different forms of improvisation. I still play, every year for other spectators (students), every day for me is a challenge, because the mood of my spectators changes daily (today they understand more, tomorrow maybe less, sometimes they like "my show", sometimes they don`t). I have already used some of the improv exercises in my classes and they have caught on very well. I wish you beautiful projects, days with love and smiles."
Mariana Pop (teacher of mathematics)