EVA HARTMANN COACHING

Accompanying processes of change

Welcome

Change occurs when you become who you are, rather than when you try to become who you’re not. (Arnie Beisser, The Paradoxical Theory of Change)



My name is Eva Hartmann and I have been working with individuals and groups - mostly in arts/creative, social and other fields - as a coach, mentor, consultant, mediator, facilitator, trainer and teacher for a number of years.

I also worked as a producer and manager in the freelance art scene between 1999 and 2023.

My coaching is based on accredited coaching skills from the Relational Dynamics training as well as Gestalt coaching with John Leary-Joyce and trauma-informed coaching with Julia Vaughn Smith and Jenny Rogers. Other approaches, techniques and inspirations come from Co-Active Coaching and Nonviolent Communication (Marshall B. Rosenberg) and from many great and inspiring colleagues, whose work I will sometimes write about on #IWONDER

I use a range of these approaches, according to your needs and preferences, coupled with the wealth of experience and skills I have accumulated in my life. I combine all this with my curiosity about what I don't know and my desire to keep learning, unlearning and relearning.

I am large… I contain multitudes. (Walt Whitman)



As a coach I act as your positive deviant providing a moment of calm. I offer a space that is designed according to your wishes. There is no right or wrong. There is you and what you bring.

The coaching room is a place for reflection, a space to reconnect or rediscover joy, meaning and values. In the coaching room I accompany your emotional journey of change or the desire to (re)explore your own contribution to this world. Especially when the world may seem "volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous".

I am there to ask open and sometimes challenging questions, to assist you in your thinking going forward and on the path to yourself/yourselves. To challenge unreflected customary conventions (mostly “the normal”) and boundaries and to question assumptions and beliefs that seem unquestioned.

My coaching is based on my belief in the humanity in all of us. The basis is that you want to take responsibility for yourself and for your actions in order to gradually narrow the gap between what is thought, said and done. The connection to you opens the door for the relationships and connections to the surrounding world or for your strategies about how you want to implement something.

You can decide:
Given that we have no option but to navigate constant change, we can either:
A. Abdicate responsibility then trust or blame Fate, the Universe, the Government or anyone else, for what happens to us.
B. Take responsibility, make aware choices and decisions, then accept the consequence. (John Leary-Joyce)

COACHING

May I have the serenity to accept what I cannot change,
Courage to change what I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference. (Reinhold Niebuhr)



The best parts of us and the parts that we’re trying to change often live on the same continuum. Rather than throwing out the entire continuum, it’s about sliding toward our strengths and using them to change what we want to change. (Brené Brown)



Some example themes for you as an individual:
• Awareness of my own goals and/or desired changes to them
• Awareness of my own strengths: Who am I? What do I offer?
• Rediscovering my own desires, goals, meaning and joy in life
• Finding the best possible way for me to live and act according to my desires, etc.
• Developing the resilience and self-confidence required to counteract shame, comparison or the feeling of being at the mercy of circumstances
• Self-reflection, self-care and taking responsibility for myself
• Recognising and facing blockages and challenges
• Searching for clarity at stages of my life that are perceived as confusing and confused
• Breaking out of old patterns and unwanted behaviours
• Unlearning and relearning
• Dealing with grief and pain - seeking companionship in challenging times
• Dealing with shame, with the feeling of powerlessness, with "not daring" to do something
• Recognising and communicating my limits
• Being wholeheartedly where I want to be - radically and courageously
• Practising gratitude, kindness and courage

"When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling. (Brené Brown)



Some example themes for teams:
• Loss of trust and restoration of trust in the group / team
• Dealing with time pressure and stress
• Feedback / communication / conflict / forgiveness
• Finding or tapping our potential as a group / the potential of individual members
• Sustainable team constellations
• Team culture of togetherness rather than against or over each other
• New forms of team culture (such as Teal Organisations, Sociocracy etc.) based on self-management and personal creativity of the individuals. (bringing our whole selves to work; spiritual, intellectual, physical and emotional self-management and personal creativity are signatures of teal organisations)
• Creative work circles - time for play, process and breaks
• Accompanying change processes - creative and playful approaches to solving challenges, blockages and much more
• Building/strengthening teams in a challenging, perhaps seemingly hopeless world - what is it all about?

The limits of my language are the limits of my world. (Wittgenstein)


Knowledge is only a rumour until it lives in the muscle. (Saying Papa New Guinea)

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  • My #IWONDER #1 quote today comes from Gabor Maté:

    "Not the world, not what’s outside of us, but what we hold inside traps us. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world." What if each and every one of us could embark on this journey?What if we were to question the current "business as usual" and "normal" more and more?How, with whom, when, where and what would you do then?I wish you courage, curiosity, open-mindedness, respect, empathy, compassion, love, unconditionally - with you and for you and for others.

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