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 1 - 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) – 2 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 - 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 - - 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 3 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) 4