SERVICES
FAMILY MEMORY MAKING: MATCHING STORIES TO HEIRLOOMS
Have you inherited a special heirloom? Do you know its story? Just as every life is a story, every object has a story to tell.
Every family has its own stories about special treasures. Matching photos, letters, and personal items kept by previous generations with the stories behind them brings family history to life, establishes the personal value of objects, and promotes the value of heirlooms and collectables.
This unique service (family contracts and public workshops) provides an opportunity to learn how to capture memories using reminiscence and oral history, conduct a significance assessment, preserve a treasure, and plan for the future if an heirloom has cultural significance.
Family Memory Making: Matching Stories to Heirlooms was designed and launched by Dr. Sherene Suchy in 2004 as a service for other families managing changes such as down-sizing for retirement, estate planning, or creating heirlooms registers to pass on family heritage to the next generation.
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COACHING CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Through a sensitive exploration of current change challenges, individuals and organisations:
- Clarify issues and expectations
- Reassess and create meaningful goals
- Develop and manage resources for change transitions
- Create a context for increased trust and support
- Design new challenges for growth and fulfillment
Coaching Change has guided executives, managers, team leaders, change agents, expatriates, partnerships, individuals, and graduate students through a range of change challenges:
- Aligning passion with purpose in leadership roles
- Expanding executive level EQ competencies
- Resolving workplace people/performance problems
- Achieving individual performance goals
- Planning and making career transitions
- Preparing and adapting cross-culturally
- Creating self-directed action learning projects
- Building collaborative and creative teams
- Guiding corporate culture change projects
- Navigating endings, loss, death, new beginnings
The Process
Grounded in psychological training, there are three types of coaching:
Facilitating -- short-term support to assess change challenges and insights into capability.
Performance -- medium term support to assess current and ideal situations, create an action plan with goals, and change reviews over time.
Developmental -- longer term support to enhance specific skills, adapt to major changes, and shape new ways to enjoy a life with purpose.
The initial two-hour session introduces a framework for understanding change and transitions. This includes exploring issues, predictable stages in adapting to change, and ways to create conditions for flow. A three-month process of confidential face to face or distance coaching (phone) sessions is then planned. The service includes six pre-booked client initiated consultations followed by coaching notes (email) and a change management review. This service has been provided nationally and internationally with clients based in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
The Investment
Price on application. The pre-paid corporate retainer includes approximately 15-18 contact hours over a three-month period, resource materials, coaching notes, administration time, and a change review.
Individual sessions are available on an hourly basis. Fee structure set by the Australian Association of Social Work.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Leading With Passion:
Leading With Passion is a three-month individual and organisational development program designed and described in the book Leading With Passion (© 2004 S. Suchy). The program enables participants to lead from the heart using emotional intelligence skills for the four roles of leadership:
- Represent an organisation’s story internally and externally.
- Create an organisational culture where others can give their best.
- Act as an ethical entrepreneur to ensure the organisations future.
- Nurture relationships of trust with key stakeholders.
Structured as a change management program with six contact days over three months, participants have eleven days to sense change, twenty-one days to shape a new performance goal, sixty days to shift, and ninety days to adapt. The program features the fourfold leadership model, opportunities to use the EQ Map in action, on-the-job projects, and tailored individual coaching.
Applications
- Individual Development -- technical skill is high and emotional intelligence is low.
- Team Development -- renewing group energy to develop high trust teams.
- Organisational Development -- creating and shaping a high EQ organisational culture.
Testimonials
"I think I do my job better and that I can bring about a general improvement in job performance of my colleagues. Also, the program has established a very important collaborative group."
"I have regained my passion and drive. I no longer dread going into work. I have a greater level of intentionality and direction which is benefiting those I work with."
Shift Your Life
This workshop features a one-day program with an 11 and 21-day follow-up for guidance and support. It was designed and piloted in Australia (©2002 S. Suchy) and launched in the United States in 2004.
Using the EQ Map as a benchmark for resilience under pressure, the program caters for leaders experiencing ‘burn-out’.
Understanding the factors that make up resilience, participants gain insight into the relationship between emotional resilience, adaptability, and tools to return the body to it’s natural state of balance and vitality.
This program offers participants an opportunity to work with Dr. Suchy and co-facilitators trained as licensed massage therapists, certified hypno-therapists, and healers.
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FACILITATION
Dr. Suchy facilitates corporate planning days, team building workshops, conflict management and mediation sessions, and workshops on performance management and succession planning.
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GUEST SPEAKING
Dr. Sherene Suchy has been a guest speaker on individual and organisational change, leadership, cultural capital, and resilience for organisations such as the Institute of Chartered Accounts, ZONTA, Business & Professional Women’s Network, World Federation of Friends of Museums, Deakin University, and the International Council of Museums (UNESCO). Her presentation style is interactive, warm, and engaging.
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