UE Kommunikation für MentorInnen 2

Facilitated by Maureen O’Hara and Renate Motschnig 

 

This experiential workshop is part of the course ”Communication for Mentors“. Its primary goal is to support participants in strengthening their personal- and interpersonal competences such as to be better able to “function” as mentors to their mentees, peers, and in many ways also to themselves in a rapidly changing environment. 

 

An interactive presentation (based on Prof. O’Hara’s book Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture, and Organisation in the 21st century (with G. Leicester) is intended to spark dialogue and students’ self-exploration as to what competencies they consider essential and desirable to have in the 21st century. Depending on the students’ interests, the group will engage in activities that are targeted at building awareness and taking the initial steps to developing these competences.  

 

Besides the theme of intercultural communication that already has been identified by students as a theme of focal interest, topics to be covered are likely to include some of the following: 

Dr. Maureen O'Hara is Professor in the Psychology Department at National University, La Jolla, CA and President Emerita of Saybrook University, California. Working with American psychologist Dr. Carl R. Rogers, she helped develop the Person-Centered Approach to psychotherapy and large group process. More recently her work has examined the relationship between the "big picture" changes underway and psychological adaptation to help us take effective and humane action in a world we can no longer understand or control. Combining her background as psychotherapist, organizational consultant and futurist, she is a frequent keynote speaker nationally and internationally on the evolution of new ways of being in a changing world.