Mihaela Tabacaru is born and raised in Romania and graduated as an organizational psychologist. She moved to Norway and together with a partner, she started “Newschool”, a company that empowers kids in schools to take more ownership of their assignments. Now she's off to new adventures connecting systems thinking and business development in various domains. Through learning design and facilitation, of course.

Connect with her here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihaelatabacaru/

Connect with Neža here: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nezakrek

Audio editing by Darko Šavija, music by Robert Meunier (Premium Beats license)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris McMorran is an associate professor of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He's a cultural geographer of contemporary Japan and a published author.

Do you want to know more about Chris McMorrans' work? Check the following links:

“Home on the Dot” podcast: https://blog.nus.edu.sg/homeonthedot/

“Ryokan” book: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/ryokan-mobilizing-hospitality-in-rural-japan/

NUS profile: https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/jpscmm/

Sign up for the newsletter to receive handy dandy handouts and checklists that will help you up your facilitation & trainer & teaching game at: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Audio editing by Darko Šavija, music by Robert Meunier (Premium Beats license)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we talk about how you can really bring your classroom to life and create a worthwhile learning experience for your students. Entrepreneurship is experiential learning, mindset, theory, and skills. How can we use this to become better educators?

Want to see more of her work? Check here:

https://business.dcu.ie/staff/professor-maura-mcadam/

https://mauramcadam.com/

Sign up for the newsletter to receive handy dandy handouts and checklists that will help you up your facilitation & trainer & teaching game at: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Audio editing by Darko Šavija, music by Robert Meunier (Premium Beats license)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The goal of her program is to get students and teachers excited about education that approaches the whole human being, rather than exclusively the brain. This starts with trust and building a strong community. Out of that trust, you can create space, to have students explore and to let them make mistakes. The initiative is theirs, not mine.

Curious about how this works? Have a listen!

Connect with Sylvia on LinkedIn: Sylvia Bronkhorst | LinkedIn

Sign up for the newsletter to receive handy dandy handouts and checklists that will help you up your facilitation & trainer & teaching game at: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Audio editing by Darko Šavija, music by Robert Meunier (Premium Beats license)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are able to lean into this playfulness leadership you will be able to create awesome learning experiences.

Connect with me on linkedin: Neza Krek.

Sign up for the newsletter to receive handy dandy handouts and checklists that will help you up your facilitation & trainer & teaching game at: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Audio editing by Darko Šavija, music by Robert Meunier (Premium Beats license)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She has been diving deep into self-discovery, personal development, and inner growth. Since 2016 she focuses on women's work guiding ceremonies for women to reconnect with their sacred femininity.

Contact details:

www.thesoundofsisterhood.de

Instagram: @carola_flowindiscipline
Or @thesoundofsisterhood

Sign up for the newsletter to receive handy dandy handouts and checklists that will help you up your facilitation & trainer & teaching game at: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Audio editing by Darko Šavija, music by Robert Meunier (Premium Beats license)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The new podcast season is in the making and in the meanwhile, I prepared a few bonus episodes for you.

You see, I asked each of my guests from the first season to bring in a question for me. The episode you're about to listen to is a patchwork of my answers to their questions about education, learning, facilitation, transformation, and business.

And remember: February 16th we start the new season of the Fresh Forward podcast for daring educators. Till then, have fun!

Cheers, Neža!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The new podcast season is in the making and in the meanwhile, I prepared a few bonus episodes for you.

You see, I asked each of my guests from the first season to bring in a question for me. The episode you're about to listen to is a patchwork of my answers to their questions about education, learning, facilitation, transformation, and business.

And remember: February 16th we start the new season of the Fresh Forward podcast for daring educators. Till then, have fun!

Cheers, Neža!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chantal Inen has been a businesswoman for over 11 years and won numerous awards. She helps organizations and big companies to transform international challenges with water, food, climate, sanitation, and health care into viable business opportunities.

By doing small steps at a time we can create big impacts. Especially when working in teams with each their own expertise. Imagine we could implement this everywhere in education!

Click the links below to get to know Chantal Inen and her work better:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chantalinen/

Instagram: Chantal Inen

Company: www.thepunchypack.nl

Speech from Chantal Inen at global entrepreneurship summit: https://youtu.be/gxsdN4Bx4nk

Sign up for the newsletter to receive handy dandy handouts and checklists that will help you up your facilitation & trainer & teaching game at: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Audio editing by Darko Šavija, music by Robert Meunier (Premium Beats license)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facilitation for me is the missing part in adult education. When incorporated right it can be the change agent in education. It can bring faster change, more commitment and independence in learners and enables a collective dialogue about the challenges we face as a society.

Sign up for the newsletter to receive handy dandy handouts and checklists that will help you up your facilitation & trainer & teaching game at: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Audio editing by Darko Šavija, music by Robert Meunier (Premium Beats license)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The main message is: we need to get rid of the top-down authority in the birthing world. Instead, it needs to be built on trust and collaboration.

More about my guest:

Chitra Natrajan, originally from Southern India, is now living in The Netherlands with her partner Anand and their daughter Dwani.

She's an HR professional turned birth educator, a certified Hypnotherapist, a businesswoman, and a podcaster of the Baby Ahoy podcast where she talks about women’s health, birthing stories, human rights & babies. When she doesn't do that, you will find her singing in a women's choir, drinking loads of chai, taking long walks in the woods, or diving into interior design. Oh, or maybe she'll be lifting weights.

The reason I wanted to interview her was that what she is teaching is considered common knowledge in some cultures, and a field of forgotten, even taboo knowledge in others. The topic of giving birth is a universal one and yet the education connected to it could not be more different from community to community. What can we as educators learn from that? That was our pursuit.

You can find Chitra at the links below:

www.akriti.nl

Instagram: @akriti__official

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HypnobirthingHolland/

Podcast: Baby Ahoy on Pregnancy, Birth + Beyond on Google, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify & https://akriti.nl/baby-ahoy-podcast/

Testimonials https://akriti.nl/testimonials/

Reviews https://www.facebook.com/HypnobirthingHolland/reviews/?ref=page_internal

And further reading about her work on www.akriti.nl

—----------------

Interested in connecting with me, perhaps ask me a question?

Connect to me on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nezakrek/

Sign up for the newsletter and receive handy dandy checklists and tips for upping your facilitation game: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Audio editing by Darko Šavija, music by Robert Meunier (Premium Beats license)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I share my journey from a control freak to a skilled letting-it-go-er with the hope that it gives you the permission to relax and bring back the joy of teaching on yoru own terms.

Connect to me on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nezakrek/

Sign up for the newsletter and receive handy dandy checklists and tips for upping your facilitation game: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

the role of education systems in dealing with collective trauma

transformative learning

the disconnect from emotions in adult education and why that is

what and why we educate our economists and why is it essential to reconsider the myths about money that feeds into the society

the war in Ukraine and how the teachers there are dealing with teaching in these extreme conditions

how we can learn as a collective and make sustainable decisions and move towards a sustainable collective behaviour

The book mentioned (the one we co-authored together with 50 other people in 1 week in a book writing sprint):

“A Transformative Edge, Knowledge, Inspiration and Experiences for Educators of Adults”, edited by M. Mehlmann and U. Biester, 2020

About the Learning for change program: https://legacy17.org/ps-learning-for-change/

Marilyn’s organisation: https://legacy17.org

Marilyn’s personal website: http://marilynmehlmann.net

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Now, as a professional facilitator, I carry with me a suitcase full of tools every time I go facilitate a session. Every object has a purpose. This episode is a collection of stories about these objects and short instructions on how and when to use them to engage your audience in meaningful conversations and immersive learning.

Are you curious about what's inside and what I use in my sessions? Let's check it out.

Oh, and my guest today is … my suitcase.

Connect to me on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nezakrek/

Sign up for the newsletter and receive handy dandy checklists and tips for upping your facilitation game: www.nezakrek.com/newsletter

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What role does our education system play in this?

How can we set an environment that empowers people to become their fullest self?

Is growth always better?

Our guest, Maya Bahosnhy talks about her shift from traditional education to finding her way to facilitation, full body learning experience and expertiential learning and the benefits that come from it.

Click the links below to get to know Maya Bahosnhy and her work better:

Thoughtbox Education - ​​https://www.thoughtboxeducation.com/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayabahoshy/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If I ask my clients what frustrates them about our current education system, the answer is usually:

“Omg, Neža, how much time do you have for me to answer this question? I mean,

*I’d talk about how difficult is to get students really engaged, not just sitting there, absent, uninterested, waiting to be entertained almost,

*how crushing it is to see so many great educators get bogged down by the admin side of the job that is there to please some weird administrative God that never reads the reports anyway,

*how I’d love to see more dialogue about education as a form of leadership,

*how I'd love to have more fun doing the job I started out of love for learning and with the idea to empower young people to be curious about the world, experiment and dare to be critical.

*I want to be able to prepare my students and trainees for the world and not keep on creating learning bubbles that are completely disconnected from reality.”

And then I thought to myself: , yes!

Let’s highlight the amazing initiatives that are already taking place and reshaping education systems from within. Let's make space for ideas that are sparking change from the outside. Let’s explore what you can already do today in your classroom or training.

Hi, I’m Neža Krek, a language teacher turned eduprepeur on a mission to contribute to innovation in adult education and support teachers who believe the way we teach and learn has the power to carve a better future. I'm also a Slovenian living in the Netherlands, a mom of three little boys with enough energy to move mountains, a partner to a fun Dutch guy, and a relentless optimist who sees opportunities for growth in pretty much everything. Yup, that would be me in a nutshell.

In this bi-weekly podcast, I sit down, … or sometimes dance… , with daring, smart, fun educators who are already shaking the ways we educate and learn. Be it because of WHAT they teach or the WAY they do so.

I will add my thoughts as a learning experience designer, a diehard facilitator, and a language teacher who stepped out of the system to create her own version of what I’d like to see in the world of adult learning. My clients say my training practice is a place where they can simply be. Where curiosity, discovery and imperfection are encouraged, where having fun while learning is a thing.

With my work, I want to contribute to a world, where students are welcomed the way they are, a world where teachers are valued as the difference-makers they are, and a world where diversity is embraced and built upon.

The "Fresh Forward" podcast hopes to bring you a taste of that world and hopefully inspire you to create your own "edutopia" in the classes you host.

The podcast will go live Wednesday, August 24th 2022. Hit follow to get free access to the first episode as soon as it goes live.

And pssst - do you want to be a part of a launch party with special goodies?

Then go to NezaKrek.com/newsletter and join the Fresh Forward community.

Have fun till August 24th. I'll be training university teachers in facilitation in the meantime. What about you?

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.