Life coaching - Eva Maria Fischer - Services

ITC is a method that tackles peoples’ frustrating experiences with having failed at personal development goals (think of New Year’s resolutions 6 months later..). Rather than forcing a change in behavior − which is usually doomed to fail sooner or later −, the process uncovers the unconscious limitations in the current mindset and reveals the unquestioned assumptions and blind spots that are holding us back from achieving our goals. It aims to equip participants with the insight to overcome this “Immunity to Change”. The process leads to a new perspective on oneself and sets you on a path to finally be ready to achieve challenging personal goals. This innovative approach draws from the research of my teachers, Harvard developmental psychology professors Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey, on what prevents us from achieving our goals and what adults need to grow mentally and emotionally. You can think of this workshop as a psychoanalytically flavored power shot that prepares you for your journey to success!

Available as a small group workshop, lecture, or individual coaching process.

The MBTI assessment is one of the world’s most popular personality tools – used by more than 88 percent of Fortune 500 companies in 115 countries. It is a very elegant and powerful tool for self-awareness and improvement. It provides a positive, comprehensible, and concrete framework for understanding, valuing, and operationalizing individual differences. The underlying theory is based on Carl Jung’s clinical observations that people differ in their innate preferences for how to take in information from the world, how to make decisions, and from where they primarily direct and receive energy. The MBTI assessment identifies 16 different personality types but is not meant to pigeonhole or limit a person to certain traits, nor is it measuring normality vs. abnormality. All types are equally valuable but have different strengths. The goal of the assessment is to give you deeper insights into your preferences and patterns and to help you understand others better who differ from you. This insight contributes to improved communication and interaction with others and can prevent and resolve conflict.

Many people come to see me with an assumption about their type based on one of the numerous online knock-off tests or with a test result delivered to them in business school or at an HR training – but without the required professional personal assessment conversation by a trained practitioner. In many cases, this leads to a wrong assessment result, as we uncover in our work together. I am a licensed MBTI practitioner, and I often use this lens as a starting point for my clients’ personal development journey, but you can also reach out to me just for the assessment.

I am familiar with other personality instruments − for example, I have worked with the BIP inventory (Business-focused Inventory of Personality) −, but the MBTI is my favorite. Last but not least because it was a game-changer for my own life!

Available as a small group workshop or for individual coaching processes.

Born out of my intercultural psychology studies and my own experiences working in intercultural environments and being an ex-pat, I offer workshops to

• Develop awareness of one’s own cultural imprint and perspective
• Promote understanding of culture’s role in interpersonal interactions
• Learn about cultural differences, with a focus on the USA and Germany
• Develop practical strategies and skills for multinational co-operation and research stays abroad
• Foster appreciation for cultural diversity; reduce fear and prejudices and prevent “culture shocks”
• Help participants experience how intercultural challenges can foster personal growth and development

Available as a group workshop, lecture, or individual coaching process.

In this workshop, we ask ourselves about the weight we want and should give to ethics in our professional decision-making processes. This leads to the bigger question of the place ethics has in the economic system and within companies. I present you with a few classical philosophical approaches and then we will look at an ethical dilemma a leader is facing and uncover the different layers of ethical complexity. And most significantly: We will engage in a hopefully lively and inspiring discussion with each other!

Available as a group workshop, lecture, or individual coaching process.

In our modern societies, most of us are constantly pursuing myriad goals. But in that jungle of demands on ourselves, it is easy to lose track of our true north, i.e. we just focus on secondary goals without taking our ultimate and long-term vision into account. Let me help you to be smart and conscious about setting goals that are important and deserve your energy and follow through – and not to overload yourself with being too ambitious about tackling too many goals at the same time. We will also learn about the pitfalls of investing in the wrong goals. Identifying and engaging with one important goal is a crucial step in personal or development.

We start from your vision and values and pick a goal that is important and exciting to you and in your power to achieve. Then, we will break it down into SMART subgoals – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, timed. And we will do a visualization to prepare you for how to withstand and overcome potential roadblocks along your journey.

Available as a group workshop, lecture, or individual coaching process.

I designed and ran a group coaching program to help people cope during the Covid-19 crisis. However, this program has proven to be beneficial not just in the context of a global pandemic, but to help people connect and grow – facing small and big challenges of life.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger sounds like a cliche but it has a lot of truth to it. A time for personal and collective difficulty has proven to be an opportunity for people to reflect and introspect, to foster connection and develop empathy, to grow their capacity for hope and love, and to question old structures and start building new ones.

Each of the three workshops in this series has a different focus: Challenges and comforts, resilience, and Carpe Diem. Through myriad tools (mediation, guided visualization, creative exercises, group sharing & experiencing) participants are empowered to gain control of what life allows them to control.

Available as a small group coaching program / workshop.

Conflict is inevitable, its escalation is not. In this workshop, we engage theoretically and practically with strategies to deal with conflict effectively and constructively. The goal is for us to learn to consciously respond rather than automatically react in conflicts.

This workshop will introduce you to important theoretical frameworks in the world of conflict resolution and mediation. I will guide you to identify your own preferred conflict style (based on the model of Thomas & Kilmann) and we will discuss in which situation each style and strategy is the most promising. We will also practice how to effectively prepare for a conflict conversation.

Available as a group workshop, lecture, or individual coaching process.