Silvia Prins – Circles for Connection

Silvia Prins – Circles for Connection
Professional career
2014-2015
Lecturer post graduate ‘Method of mediation’ – KHL
Course: Basic training mediation for family mediators
2013-2014
Lecturer KH Leuven – SRW
Course: Group Dynamics
Since 2013
Co-founder of the centre for mediation and leadership
www.c-bl.be
Since 2012
Lecturer CVO - Sociale School Heverlee
Course: Mediation and negotiation
2011-2013
De Baak – Knowledge Center Large Scale Interventions
Senior program developer (free lance)
2010
Owner and senior consultant at ‘Circles for Connection’
BE 0829.548.849
Full time since February 2012
2009
Guest lecturer at Tilburg University, Masters in Organization Studies: teaching
Organizational Dynamics and Organizational Development (part-time)
2008
Co-founder and member of ‘Cycloop’: network for facilitation and action research in
multi-actor collaboration: wwwcycloop.org
(since September 2011 as free lancer)
02/200602/2012
Assistant professor-researcher, Group T Leuven Engineering College, member of
Association K.U. Leuven (60% contract)
- Domains: group dynamics, project work, team development, intercultural team work,
negotiation
- Research and publications
01/200609/2010
Founder and consultant at ‘Coaching for Connection’
- Process facilitation, coaching, mediation, training in teams, organizations and collaborative
networks
- Part-time
02/2006 –
03/2009
Voluntary collaborator Research Centre for Work, Organizational and Personnel
Psychology, K.U. Leuven
- Domains: multi-party collaboration and mediation in organizations
02/200609/2006
ESF project: collaborator (40%)
- Development of e-portfolio
02/1999 –
02/2006
Research assistant, Department psychology and pedagogical sciences, Centre for
Organizational and Personnel Psychology, K.U. Leuven:
- PhD in organizational psychology: The systems psychodynamics of collaborative work: issues in
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direction setting of the process, June 2006
Teaching assignment: group dynamics in masters organizational psychology
01/1994 –
02/1999
Belgacom ‘Learning & Development Academy’, Brussels: internal consultant
‘Management Development’
- Development of management training and MD policy
- Facilitation, coaching, training
03/1992 –
01/1994
04/1991 –
10/1991
08/1990 –
12/1990
Jouret Management Center, Brussels: communication trainer (N/F/E)
11/1989 –
08/1990
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Baghdad
(Iraq): selection and resettlement of Iranian refugees
05/1989 –
11/1989
09/1988 –
02/1989
Randstad Interim, Brussels: consultant for temporary work
Belgian Red Cross, Brussels: assistant of Director and HR manager (temporary contract)
Belgian Embassy, Baghdad (Iraq): assistance during Gulf crisis
Educational centre ‘Foyer’, Brussels: basic training of youngsters (temporary contract)
Education and training
2012-2016
Gestalt therapy training, IVC Kortrijk (2012-2016)
2014
Level 2 ‘Deep Democracy’, Human Dimensions, Utrecht (NL) (2 days)
2013
Training ‘Don’t just do something, stand there!’, M. Weisbord & S. Janoff, Future Search Network,
Antwerpen (2 days)
2013
Masterclass ‘Conflict, crisis, catharsis’, Friedrich Glasl, Mediation Instituut Vlaanderen
2011
Training ‘Managing a Future Search’, M. Weisbord & S. Janoff, Future Search Network,
Noordwijk (NL), 3 dagen
12/2011
Training ‘Deep Democracy’ – Level 1 - Human Dimensions
09-11/2011
Coaching training ‘Discoverer’ – BAO Brussels (7 days)
09/2011
‘Managing a Future Search - A Training Workshop’, De Baak, Noordwijk, Netherlands
03/2011
‘Community Building Workshop: Renewing Spirit and Learning in Business’ (2 days), Kazimierz
Gozdz (Generon International, LCC) in collaboration with European Leadership Platform &
Zin, Vught (NL)
02-06/2011
Training coaching: The Alchemy of Coaching, Life Projects (6 days)
09/12-2007
Specialization course: ‘Social Mediation’ (6 days): registered mediator since 2009
01-09/2007
Basic training ‘Mediation’: Mediation Institute Vlaanderen (Mediv) (18 days)
06/2005
Workshop ‘The interpretive paradigm in organizational diagnosis and consultation: psychoanalytic
principles and qualitative research in the service of organizational change’, Baltimore (US) –
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organization: International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (2 days)
2001- 2002
International Professional Development Programme (IPDP), ‘Leading Meaningful Change’,
Prodev, Belgium (27 days): certificate
2001
Workshop 'Transitional Space', Paris (France) - organization: International Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations: (2 days)
1999 - 2003
Active member of seminar group ‘Leadership and psychoanalysis’, Belgian School for
Psychoanalysis
1998
Workshop ‘Group dynamics’, Instituut voor Communicatie, Kortrijk, (5 days)
1998
‘Working with and in teams with Theme Centred Interaction and psychoanalysis’, workshop TCI,
Netherlands (5 days)
1995-1998
Internal training Belgacom:
- Working with metaplan (3 days)
- Training management (4 days)
- Certification training Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (5 days)
- Consultancy skills (5 days)
- Strategic needs analysis (4 days)
1993-1994
‘Theme Centred Interaction’ (TCI), Worldwide Institute for Living Learning (WILL),
Belgium/Netherlands: year training working with groups
1991-1992
‘Course for Trainers in Organizations’, EHSAL, Brussels, (15 evenings)
1987-1988
Post graduate Social Anthropology, U.C.L. Louvain-la-Neuve
1986-1987
Teaching Certificate Higher Education, K.U. Leuven
1981-1987
Master Clinical Psychology (adults), K.U. Leuven
1966-1981
European School, Mol (Belgium): European Baccalaureate Latin-Modern Languages
Membership and networks
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Member of the association of Theme Centered Interaction Belgium/Netherlands
Member of the alumni of the International Professional Development Programme, Prodev
Member of the General Assembly of ‘Bemiddeling vzw’
Member of the steering group of ‘Social Mediation’ (post academic program), Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven & Katholieke Hogechool Leuven
Specific competences
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Research and writing: publications on my website
Languages:
! English and French: fluent (speaking, reading, writing)
! German and Italian: speaking and reading
! Spanish and Portuguese: notions
Experience with living and working in an international environment
Driving licence B
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Personal details
Name
Address
Date and place of birth
Nationality
Silvia Prins
Broekstraat 32, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
" + 32 (0) 16 72 09 28
Mobile: + 32 (0) 0486 14 86 33
1 March 1963, Turnhout (Belgium)
Dutch
3 children: Caspar (1997), Clara (1995) and Felix (2000)
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