DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS:

Successful business development with alternative method

• ENACT! - Masculine and Feminine roles in leadership
  
  Gender issues cover a lot more than equal rights at work. In what ways is any male or female boss better than the other? What are the true strengths of being a woman or a man you can build on as a leader? And how many different gender-roles does one play as a man or a woman? Walking the path of a man and a leader, what does being a Warrior, a Father, a Wise Man, or a Lover mean? And what are its female equivalents? You may discover, right here.
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• Positive Thinking in sales development
  
  It is our proven best practice, that business success derives from mental approach, from the right orientation of our thought-patterns, our thinking. Positive thinking does not equal hurray-optimism, it is rather the capacity to create the right action-oriented, constructive mindset, appropriate for any difficult situation no matter how stressful it may seem. Through our training program, we deliver the tools and methods for acquiring this practical life-skill for success.
  References: (2010) Continental Tobacco – Tabán Trafik, (2010) DunaPro, (2010) IBM
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• Zen meditation seminar for corporate decision makers
  
  The meaning of Zen is insight. It is also a Japanese form of meditation, that is widely practiced in the rushing world of Japan by businessmen independent of their line of business. It is based on creating the threefold harmony of awareness-discipline-action, which does not only support harmonious balance, but is also the key factor to success in business. No wonder this method spread all over the world and is widely practiced in all fields of business in the western world, outside of Japan too.
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• Budo training – the philosophy of martial arts in business orientation
  
  Price-war, market competition, rivalry. Concepts and notions that suggest meaning beyond just the world of business. They suggest strong encounters, battles fought behind the scenes. What does campaign and combat mean if we take it to true heights? To find the answer we turn to Eastern thought, and to the philosophy of Japanese martial arts that has proven the success of the Japanese business world for more than half a century. This practice-based program is enriched by true action learning in a dojo, through real martial art practices, moderated dual and team combats, making this event unforgettable and delightful.
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• Strategic Archery – Goal-setting and business-drive in strategic thinking
  
  Every corporate decision maker knows the meaning of vision and strategic planning. Instead of the dry case studies of standard MBA programs, we develop this understanding through acquiring the art of aiming by learning archery. How do we set a target? How to aim at it? How do our goal-setting principles change when we need to deliver in a competitive environment? Through this development-course, beyond learning how to use a bow and arrow, participants acquire the proper mindset for goal-orientation, and through the means of a set of real archery competitions they test their mental preparation. By acquiring the right approach to strategic thinking, they become better at being true strategists, creating a true advantage in successful business development.
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Personal-experience based development programs with alternative methods

• "Fears and Limits" development program with Firewalking
  
  According to David A. Kolb’s experimental learning theory, people may be classified into two large groups by learning-preference: doers and observers. It is now proven, that to the effect of passive television viewing, the majority of people today become passive recipients, mere “perceivers”. This tendency has a clear effect on corporate performance and efficiency. This no doubt needs to be altered and managed in time. Due to the effect of Firewalking, the inner drive for people able and wanting to perform may change completely, returning to the original doer-preference, all by this single-event. Participants ability to perform may become fully enhanced and multiplied shortly after the event.
  Firewalking is a proven alternative human development tool, which can be used safely and effectively to enhance individual performance and thus corporate effectiveness. Its effect on personal growth has proven benefits for building more conscious life-strategies for a more successful life.
  References: (2009) Magyar Telekom – Top 50, (2010) Continental Tobbaco-Tabán Trafik, sales force of 170 people!, (2010) LeasePlan all staff event 70 people.
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• Music development program
  
  Everyone loves music. Yet it is seldom used as a development tool, although the positive experience of creating music together has a very strong proven team-building effect. Through common goal-setting, common practice, mutual respect, harmony, rapport and true team-performance, participants gain deep insight into what it means to work together as a team. Through this journey of joyful self-discovery, the participants go through various stages of true transformation that develop team-spirit, and enhance social awareness very clearly.
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• "Playback Theatre" for Organisations
  
  "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." – say the words of Shakespeare in As You Like It. In the world of business everybody knows what it means to play a role in the eyes of others: different to colleagues, bosses, subordinates, clients. In our experience, in many-many cases, real scenarios don’t allow enough room for us to discover these roles. The simply hide the true actor behind the role. We experience that allowing people to "act", and to put on costumes and play the roles of players in scenes, enable people to express their true feelings and thoughts much easier. Therefore, by and through acting we can deliver a true cathartic experience on both the individual and corporate level. By applying the methods of spontaneous improvisation developed by playback theatre methodology, every problematic issue can be addressed, can be spoken about, and can be solved. In the world of theatre, there is no blood, only tomato sauce...
  References: (2010) Magyar Telekom, Konica Minolta
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• Inspiration workshop
  
  Burnout syndrome. It affects severely more than 50% of all middle-aged workers. According to a recent article in the Economist 2010 July, the syndrome called “presentism” - meaning the sheer unproductive attendance at any workplace -, a definite sign of burnout, costs more than a billion Euros in losses, for a company employing 2000 people or more. The inspiration workshop is a one- or two day(s) corporate gathering that help rekindle the fire, which is there in every one of us waiting to be reignited, just like a phoenix awaiting rebirth from the ashes. Inspiration workshops bring this about.
  References: (2010) Konica Minolta
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• Enneagram training
  
  Character-typology and painting a character. In the world of business sooner or later everyone bumps into a DISC, MBTI or CPI test to show his character, to throw a light on what is "he/she" like, or at least the outer crust of his/her personality. We know there is a deeper meaning to this exploration into the realm of personality. Purpose, role, character, personality. Things we like and need to discover. Enneagram is an exciting new approach as well as a practical tool for discovering our character enabling us to cooperate and enact with others much more efficiently.
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• Creative writing and poetry seminar
  
  Creativity and Innovation. Everyone in the world of business knows how important skills these are, and how difficult it is to develop. One truly creative individual equals a hundred others if his/her potential is unleashed alongside well-defined corporate aims. In our seminar we aim to achieve this. The participants develop through a series of well-defined tasks originating from psycho-drama methodology - that allow to discover and map the group’s inner dynamics, roles, and boundaries -, to arrive at the advanced stage of creative self-expression through writing. The seminar aims at unleashing and expressing people’s creative potential with a long lasting effect.
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• Zen training
  
  "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form." – comes the tenet from the famous Heart Sutra. Anything may be filled with any meaning and content, and with time these meanings change and may even lose their relevance. The training is based on the oriental philosophy and practice of Zen meditation, helping to provide meaning and content in developing satisfying life-strategies for people working in the world of business.
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• Self-awareness development through dance and movement-therapy
  
  "Everyone dances!" – come the words of a popular hit by Ákos, a Hungarian singer. There are some, for whom dancing is intimate belonging, cherished close harmony, and there are some for whom dancing is wild uncensored breakout, head-shaking metal madness. Dance is of course, both. What benefit to explore and experience what style of dance best reflects our personality, what pictures us the best, and what movements fall outside our skills or comfort-zone. Such development events are a rare beauty, when “strangers” come together to see themselves reflected in their own and each other’s eyes; that show and tell.
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• Drawing seminar
  
  Our right and left-hand brain does not evolve equally for most of us, as classical forms of education put a much stronger emphasis on developing our rational, data- and fact-based thinking. Unfortunately for many of us this creates a true mental disability, and a shortcoming. Drawing is a skill that we all loved and cherished as a child, yet we let diminish in our adult lives. By rediscovering this ability, participants regain a perfect tool for creative self-expression that helps to ignite and catalyse our forgotten creativity in all areas of life, including the world of business.
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Team-building for personal growth

• Corporate constellation, and corporate theatre
  
  Team-building is most commonly understood and practiced today as coming together for a couple of drinks followed by a wild afterparty. And of course a lot of things do come to light during these events, many things surface. Only the meaningful remains untouched and hidden. For teams that seek a deeper meaning for team-building events, who wish to look further, and wish to learn about each other and their relations more, corporate constellation or corporate theatre is an ideal development tool. The method built on dramatised and theatrical elements is today well known for understanding family relations, and is recently used to picture corporate and team dynamics perfect for team-building purposes.
  References: (2010) Magyar Telekom
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• Drumming event
  
  Following the principles laid out in our Music Development Program, we organize musical events that enable teams to experience the strength of collective power by playing music together as a team. Playing the drums together develop teams by using one of the earliest and easiest rhythm instrument. Setting common goals, keeping pace, paying attention to each other, creating harmony, being moderate is at the heart of the experience. By experiencing a real team-effort and true team-performance, participants develop a better understanding of social awareness, and team-play as a whole.
  References: (2010) Magyar Telekom
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• Creativity workshop
  
  Through challenging practical tasks and lateral thinking puzzles, participants realize and become aware of their personal thought patterns and thinking paradigms, as well as the general thinking methods and general problem-solving approaches demonstrated by the group, which may limit both personal and group performance. The workshop helps identify typical personal and group thinking schemes limiting creativity. The tailor-made agenda always focuses on personalised real-life problems that are discussed and solved together by the team. Participants acquire conventional and non-conventional thinking tools that enhance creativity like the analogy-method, random-generator, color-technique, springboard method, critical-path approach, brainmapping, brainwriting, scamper, etc.
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Conscious Life-Strategies

• Life and Sensitivity Coaching
  
  Every business-coaching process arrives at a point where the coachee needs to confront issues that arise from lifestyle and life-governance. This is why personal coaching is such a delicate area of human development. The coaching-processes delivered by ALTERNOVA are always based on life-coaching principles, meaning that we intentionally do not limit our perspective to the field of business, but rather approach each individual as leading “one life”, where the field of work and private life is not at all separate. With this holistic approach we are able to deliver true support, with true effect and deliverables in sensitive areas like intimacy, personal relationships, corporate relations, etc.
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• YES to LIFE workshop
  
  YES. YES. YES. One of last year’s most provoking success-films was “Yes-man” with Jim Carry. What if life prefers and supports those who dare to, and can say yes. Who open themselves to the opportunities presented by life with an open heart and mind. And while every child is such a “Yes-man”, by the time we reach adulthood most of us becomes a “we’ll see, maybe, it depends-man”. The workshop focuses on how to move beyond our thinking patterns and mental limitations, by evoking the original state of mind of our inner child who loves life, who wants life, who explores into the world. The workshop achieves this by providing opportunities to explore exciting new inventions, situations and challenging tasks that await human curiosity.
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• Life Strategy
  
  One of ALTERNOVA’s main aims is to provide practical support for people who realise that laying the foundation for a meaningful life begins with developing their inner world; developing the way they think and their abilities leading to life of quality. Life Strategy courses provide development tools for creating a harmonious and fulfilling life. The course allows participants to create the harmonious balance of the body, the soul and the mind leading to wellbeing in every dimension of our lives. On this journey to self-discovery, participants receive specific life-skills development tools, that enable them to lead and drive their lives with true consciousness.
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• Relaxation, Concentration, Meditation
  
  Meditation is not a religious practice, but the art of balance. Staying in centre aligned with our own axis. There are three stages leading to this: relaxation, concentration, meditation – denoting the level of clarity of our state of mind. We propose this course to all who feels out of centre, or who would like to discover how to remain balanced and harmonious in every situation. For everyone who would like to learn the method to “stand aground” in the drag of everyday life.
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• Quick meditation practices
  
  Participants learn methods for reaching a comfortable relaxed state of mind, that enhances the ability to concentrate. The meditative state allows participants to acquire techniques that often lead to resolving problems, by generating different internal perspectives on problematic issues brought into light. Conventional relaxation techniques can be supplemented by a method called “holistic-pulsing”, a meditation technique practiced floating in a hot pool. We also deliver “mind-control” techniques that facilitate our thinking processes differently by stimulating all 5 channels of our perception, useful for generating ideas and planning processes.
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Self-awareness and personal growth

• Transformation board-game
  
  The transformation board-game is a personal development tool, that is presented in an enjoyable form of gaming, yet it deals with serious issues leading to profound self-discovery. It is a creative and innovative tool, that supports the development of both the individual and the team playing the game. It is a powerful support to every team that seek to build, develop or strengthen internal relations through raising the level of self-awareness.
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• Psycho- and mythic-drama
  
  The world of religions and myths speak of a collective remembrance hidden within our soul, that the modern man just recognises as part of the subconscious. Revealing and discovering this level of our mind has mostly been only available through long lasting psycho-analysis. Through the methods derived from psycho-drama practices participants are invited to take part in a journey to the world of the collective subconscious, the archetypes of human behaviour. Facing and enacting on these primordial principles as a group has the strongest and longest-lasting team-building effect lasting for a lifetime. It is proposed to teams intended to work together for a longer period of time, with an open mind to self-discovery.
  References: (2008, 2009, 2010) Szintézis Open University
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