Our philosophy
In all our events, we offer leading-edge psychological knowledge and skills in an innovative learning and group format. It's a unique and powerful combination which you won't find anywhere else.
The large group learning community ensures profound, tailor-made, practical and holistic learning in real-time, many times more effective than other training programmes.
The presence of our seasoned tutor team enables an intense group experience which is quite unlike any other social situation and is immediately relevant to your own organisational work.
The tutors’ long-standing teaching background and integrative expertise guarantee a uniquely diverse spectrum of psychological and groupwork approaches. Most of this knowledge is as yet unheard of in leadership, management and organisational contexts.
All in all, Communitas events provide personal-professional learning opportunities in an extraordinary environment with a rich mix of theories, skills and tools - some you are likely to be familiar with, some you may have vaguely come across and some that are still well-kept and innovative insider secrets.
Communitas: a uniquely wide range of theories, models and approaches
You may be familiar with, for example: NLP, Myers-Briggs Personality Types, Pete Senge’s notion of the ‘learning organisation’, systems thinking as applied to organisations or the theories of management gurus like Tom Peters or Ed Schein.
You may have vaguely come across, for example: Gestalt in organisations, Open Space technology and Large Group Interventions (LGI’s), Peter Hawkin’s work on leadership, coaching and parallel process, complexity theory as applied to organisations.
You may be interested, for example, in these innovative and as yet unheard-of approaches which Communitas offers in addition: new leading-edge psychological approaches, generating innovative ways of working with both individuals and groups (e.g. Process-oriented Psychology, Constellations), Ken Wilber’s integral philosophy or Spiral Dynamics.
Read more: A comprehensive spectrum of approaches
The Communitas philosophy in detail
For a systematic and substantial introduction, see our blog posts on 'Communitas philosophy', which are organised in seven major strands:
- The established principles of current leadership training, coaching and organisational consulting
- Social development through ‘self-organising learning communities’
- New ideas in individual psychology
- New ideas in group and organisational psychology
- The ‘parallel process’ perspective
- Principles and methods of community building
- The integral-systemic evolutionary perspective
A unique environment for concentrated social learning
Our events create a live organisation which forms a kind of 'mini-society'. One special feature of such a 'social laboratory' is the time and space to explicitly pay attention to the interpersonal and group dynamics as they unfold.
We will reflect on and experiment with these dynamics in a way which is not usually possible in the heat and task-orientation of the 'real world' and everyday work. Yet through an emphasis on experiential learning, the work always stays practical, applicable and relevant.
Thus, the kind of large group learning community we are envisaging provides a unique environment for intense and profound learning about what really makes groups of people thrive. You will experience directly how a group culture gets generated and how it evolves, and what dynamics are conducive and which ones obstructive to the functioning of an organisation.
This is a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in a diverse collective organism which will affect you deeply at the same time as being directly influenced and shaped by you.
