Rachel Alvarez-Reyes
Reflections on Gestalt Ways of Being
Rachel shares some of her reflections on her recent learning on Gestalt ideas and ways of being
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Building skills to lead
sustainable
social change
"Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care"
Margaret Wheatley
Those promoting social change need exceptional soft skills to remain resilient, passionate, innovative and effective.
We support leaders and their teams working in the social change space. We enhance the skills necessary to transform how they work by providing coaching, training and facilitation services.
"We lack the inner capacity to deal with our increasingly complex environment and challenges. Fortunately, modern research shows that the inner abilities we now all need can be developed"
Inner Development Goals
What we do
We use a combination of approaches, including:
We approach each client and their system as unique, and therefore operate in a bespoke way as standard. Our work aims to support leaders and their teams to develop generative ways of working so they function at more than the sum of their parts.
In general, our process follows a four-phase process:
1. Scoping
Working in close collaboration with the client, we will assess the context and the needs of the individual, team or organisation in order to identify appropriate interventions to improve effectiveness.
2. Inception
The inception phase kicks off the wider engagement with the team or organisation, to feedback findings from the scoping phase and to co-create a process of building and sustaining effectiveness over time.
4. Review and Evaluation
Building awareness is an important step to sustaining change. Reviewing and evaluating the process in order to draw out the core learning is therefore essential.
3. Process
This phase is designed to support new practices and processes to foster and advance team and individual effectiveness.
Who we are
Copperfinch was founded by Sarah-Jane Marriott, Rachel Alvarez-Reyes and Jo Kemp. Between us we have extensive and varied experience of working in international development and social change, as well as in leadership and team development.
We understand the passion and drive to help make the world a better place and the energy one can derive from being part of the bigger picture to make this happen.
We also have personal insight into the frustration and disillusionment that can come from working in a sector that does not always function at its best.
We believe that lasting change comes when the vision and solutions are identified and owned by the 'client'.
Everything we do is about supporting our clients to build and sustain the skills necessary to listen to themselves and others in a way that brings about meaningful and lasting change.
"The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor"
Bill O'Brien, former CEP of Hanover Insurance
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