Nevertheless communicative skills are one of the most important assets whether in private or professional development.
Our target is to support our clients in their quest to improve their individual understanding of the communicative processes and its implementation.
Philosophic-sophistic approach
We orientate towards tried and tested principles, doctrines and discussions of the sophists and philosophers of the greek roman antiquity.
It is our firm believe that the wisdom of the
antique philosophy and the revelations and studies from the early sophists to the stoics can contribute a lot to our understanding of communication.
Limits to perception and relativism
We think (like Gorgias from Leontinoi or Isokrates), that it is denied to us to base our actions on unequivocal scientifically proven findings. Equally, we negate the potential preception of "the objective reality".
Constructivism
We do not present or even teach "the right, the good or the real". On the contrary, in our approach you will find us showing and discussing quite different explanations, opinions, and thinking models.
From those, the participant selects his individual mosaic parts. That means that our approach is sceptical-constructivist. Every human being A"constructs" his own world, depending on his perception, culture, bringing up and disposition.
Subjectivism
At the same time, this means that we do not offer "recipes" in the lines of "The ten steps towards...".
In our opinion, these would not offer satisfactory answers to the complexity of our communicative behavior.
The maieutic method
The socratic method to gain understanding starts with a question.
With Socrates we believe that each human being is already provided with inherent and sufficient resources. Through questioning, the maieutic method helps to gain access to and link these ressources.
In any competence enhancement process, our facilitator will take over the function of a midwife and help to "give birth" to new approaches, behavioral patterns and thinking directions.
Questions in training, of course, can be inconvenient. This is because they oblige one to occupy oneself critically with the subject. Socrates has compared himself with a disturbing godfly, that keeps the spirit from falling asleep.
Dialectics and contradictions
The dialectics of Platon, finally, make the revelations of complex conepts thrilling. We do not think that contradictions are negative per se.
Consciously, we do put contradictions in our seminars, and give time to think about long standing and newly learned behavioural patterns. Reflection and discussion by the participants does not, however, take away the self responsibility of each participant. Since there are questions that will not be answered in one final way, contradiction is an integral part of the themes we are talking about.
Hence, you can expect new insight, different opinions, but also doubt about stuck approaches and discussions about pro und contra.
Fun and happiness in understanding
Like the name
philo-sophy is indicating already, lasting "success" and efficient "learning" are inseparable from "playing" and "having fun".
So we combine both areas by introducing games, practical stories and roleplays through tested and long-developed single-player and group exercises.
The majority of the contents is being worked out and so acquired by the participants themselves.
Focus on top quality & long-lasting success
Quality is an absolute top-priority with the institute for .communication. We do target experts who know that every word said but also every word not said might make the difference between being at the first position or getting nowhere, between agreeing to a deal or breaking off negotiations and pursuing legal relief.
For that reason we can not accept anything but the very highest standards. We commit all our endeavour to our high quality goals and the strive for perfection.
That concerns all areas from the choice of our top-qualified
facilitators to the thought - through preperation of our training design ,structuring of the contents (chunking) to our high - caliber seminar material, availability, confidentialtiy and reliability, pre- and after seminar service, invitation into the virtual seminar center...
That is exactly why our
clients choose us.
