Empower your Inner Leadership
Study visit for passionate difference makers
Lesvos, Greece | April 30 - May 3, 2024
Theme: Trauma-sensitive guidance & Initiating sustainable change
Inspirational change based on inner leadership
Would you like to experience how you can provide even more tailored support to vulnerable children?
In this in-depth journey you will discover how you can realize positive change in your working environment in an inspired way. A change that only you can bring, based on your uniqueness. A movement that makes everyone enthusiastic. You, your colleagues and yes, even your manager.
The Greek island of Lesvos symbolizes a place of transformation. As a result of the arrival of many men, women and children from other countries, both locals and refugees are experiencing a major change in their lives. A change in which people feel called to contribute, based on their inner values, to what is important to them.
Together, Greeks and people from different cultures are creating new forms of care for refugees, for the environment and in the field of education. All initiatives arise from sustainable efforts by passionate people.
In inspiring working visits to communities, we survey how you can initiate encouraging change for your working environment. At the same time, you deepen your qualities in trauma-sensitive guidance of children.
You do not need to have a management position to participate.
Contents
Study visit Lesvos
- Personal intake
- Introductory seminar
- Visits to communities
- Inner leadership workbook
- Advice call after the trip
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Final goals
- You can initiate sustainable positive change based on your uniqueness
- You know how to support vulnerable children
- You are able to teach and lead from your inner compass
- You are experiencing trauma-sensitive guidance from a new perspective
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About Lesvos
The traditional place of Lesvos has many sides. This third largest island in Greece is known for its beautiful nature, countless olive trees and bird watching. Tourists enjoy the wonders of this gem in the Aegean Sea.
At the same time, Lesvos is the place where a humanitarian crisis took place in 2015/2016. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and Afghanistan crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey to seek a safe home in Europe. To this day, boats are arriving every week with men, women and children fleeing war, poverty and persecution.
I will take you on an inner journey in a small group with enough space to guide you individually. There is a free afternoon to explore the island or to muse by the sea.
Personal advice about your participation?
What is included in the Lesvos study visit?
Intake call
Are you interested in the Lesvos trip? You are very welcome. During the introductory meeting, we will discuss whether this training is currently suitable for you and whether the trip meets your learning questions.
Introductory workshop at school
When you participate with your team, we will plan an inspiring kick-off meeting at your school. We prepare the trip together and you will receive the workbook and the preparatory assignment.
Inspiring working visits
on Lesbos
We will have meetings with invigorating people who work with heart and soul to create inspiring change, every day. From their pure self, for their vulnerable community.
Testimonials Study visit Lesvos
It turned out very well to go to Lesvos with our team
Every day I think: the visit has meant more for me than I thought possible.
We are looking at trauma-sensitive teaching in a new way because we saw with our own eyes what students experience.
Rob Sakko, managing director, CBS De Wegwijzer, Harderwijk
Valuable for my work & personal development
It has been a few years since I went on this study visit with Hélène van Oudheusden and it is an experience that I have never forgotten.
Very valuable for my work, but also for my personal development. To experience where many of my students have been, how misleading the sea seems... It makes an impression.
If you have the chance, definitely do it! I would go again in a heartbeat.
Nynke Bekema, coordinator ISK Education Team, VariO Education Group, Emmeloord
Thanks again for the wonderful Lesvos experience
I have met so many people who are so passionate about their work.
Hélène is Lesvos, you feel her energy in every sentence.
Rian Eijgenraam, teacher, Het Palet, The Hague
What an impressive study visit in our Erasmus project
What a valuable addition to our international Erasmus project. Thank you very much for this inspiring study visit!
Marijke Verbree, MEd, teacher, internationalization coordinator (RGCI), Carmel College, Gouda
Super thanks
for this wonderful trip and the good care.
Marian de Jong, director of ISK Duin- en Bollenstreek, Katwijk
One little starfish in my class
The study visit has helped me understand children's behavior better. As an internal supervisor, I will guide teachers even more in predictability, structure and peace in the classroom.
Ilse Vlietstra, internal supervisor, North Holland
For whom
- Difference makers in schools and in organizations
- DaZ/DaF Lehrpersonen
- Child psychologists
- School psychologists
The Lesvos study visit is for difference makers who wish to delve deeper into their personal and professional growth. You are open to self-reflection and are curious about how you can start fruitful change in your organization based on your individuality.
Testimonials Hélène van Oudheusden
Thank you for this beautiful time
It was good to take the time between sessions to work on new insights.
The combination of coaching and therapeutic interventions was nice, because you sometimes see past experiences reflected in the way you are now working. The practical and in-depth approach was effective for me in many ways.
It was a beautiful spiritual journey, where I found several treasures.
Thank you Hélène.
Sieglien Weegman, director Sint BernardusSchiedam
Thank you for the very pleasant and professional cooperation!
We would be happy to contact you again.
Cornelia Zschaber Conrad, Radix Healthy Schools, Switzerland
I have enjoyed working with school counsellor Hélène van Oudheusden on Lesvos
We have organised five seminars on Mindfulness & Positive Teaching/ Parenting.
Greek, English and Dutch participants joined us from all over our beautiful island to attend the seminars.
I appreciate Hélène's enthusiasm, expertise and thoughtfulness.
Our teachers, parents and children loved the seminars, which inspired them to apply their new ideas into their daily lives.
Aphrodite Vati, vice-mayor of Tourism, West-Lesvos/ English School of Melpomenie and Aphrodite Vati, Lesvos, Greece
Hélène van Oudheusden collaborates with, among others,
The Netherlands
- ISK SKILLS vmbo, Heemskerk
- Municipality of Rotterdam
- LOWAN-VO
- Taalschool Gezellehoek, Roosendaal
- Waldorf School Mareland, Leiden
- Hogeschool Avans-Fontys, Tilburg
- ING Netherlands
Switzerland
- RADIX Healthy Schools
Belgium
- De Vinderij, Lokeren
- Stedelijk Onderwijs Antwerpen
Greece
- English School of Aphrodite Vati, Lesbos
- UNHCR Greece
- Save the Children Lesvos
- Solidarity/Pikpa
South Africa
- Primary School, Langa Township, Cape Town
eSwatini (Swaziland)
- Primary School
Hélène van Oudheusden is a senior personal counselor and trainer based in the Hague, the Netherlands. She is the author of Empower Yourself at Work and Teaching Refugee Children.
Hélène van Oudheusden, Personal Coach is registered as an educational institution with the CRKBO and therefore complies with the quality code for training institutions for short vocational education.
Hélène works in the Netherlands, Germany, Greece & South Africa.
