Holistic
Management
Training

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Our programmes

holistic leadership development

Connect With
Self

Connect With Self focuses on boosting your personal energy and empowering you to build sustainable, effective routines for yourself. The goal is to help you manage the ongoing challenges of both your professional and private life in a healthy, long-term way.

Connect With Self
Group dynamics and high performing teams

Connect With
Others

The second programme, Connect With Others, is about raising your awareness of group dynamic processes and improving your skills to form effective, efficient and mature teams.

Connect With Others
Nature as access to good management

Connect With
Nature

The last programme invites you to explore nature in both peaceful and adventurous ways, together with others. It offers a unique opportunity to enjoy group experiences in the great outdoors – for example, hiking across the Alps or taking part in a wilderness expedition.

Connect With Nature
Company Programmes, Executive Coaching, Mentoring, Physical Training, Aikido, Kick-Boxing

Further
Programmes

We can provide in-house or external condensed programmes of one or two days for companies. We also offer group or individual coaching and meditation courses. For more information, please contact us.

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Objective

We consider our three main programmes to be a “programme family”. While each programme is effective on its own, their shared purpose and strength are fully revealed when experienced together.

  1. Connect With Self

  2. Connect With Others

  3. Connect With Nature

An overview is given in the graph below:

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The following graph illustrates the upward, progressive spiral toward a higher energy level that this programme aspires to achieve. It also highlights several key content topics from the different modules along this journey.

Holistic Management Training Upward Spiral and Content Overview

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Philosophy Section

Philosophy

Objectives

The Holistic Management Training Programme strengthens the foundations of effective leadership by developing clarity, resilience, and presence – across physical, cognitive, and empathic dimensions. Participants build sustainable routines, improve stress regulation, and expand their ability to act with focus and confidence – even under pressure.

Each programme module supports lasting personal and professional growth. The programme runs over seven weeks and includes a three-day in-person retreat, followed by a flexible learning phase that allows you to integrate new habits, tools and insights into your daily leadership context.

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Methodology

A sustainable increase in an individual’s energy level can be achieved by behavioural changes. Yet these changes cannot be cemented by only short-term effort. Continuous experiments and exercises are required, which should lead to an increase in willpower over time.

The Holistic Management Training Programme is therefore designed around an accompanied personal development approach, delivered over a sustained period.

Techniques to support individuals’ performance as managers and to keep them energetic and healthy as human beings include:

  • Finding goals/values/ideals and making them accessible to the conscious self
  • Making sense of management situations
  • Strategy development
  • Handling conflicts
  • Seeking win-win situations

Additionally, this programme aims to create a strong network among participants that will support them in their career, help them master professional challenges and increase their individual resilience.

While theoretical foundations will be provided, the focus of the training will be on experiential learning both for the body-related exercises and the intuitive/empathic and cognitive parts of the training.

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Objective

The “Holistic Management Training” programme is designed for current and aspiring leaders who seek to strengthen their management and personal skills holistically. Addressing the physical (body), cognitive/emotional (mind), and intuitive/empathic (soul) dimensions, the training recognises that true leadership effectiveness relies on all three areas working together.

Participants will:

  1. Build resilience in challenging leadership situations
  2. Foster mindfulness and a sense of purpose
  3. Develop strategies to maintain energy, health, and high performance
  4. Practice approaches to prevent fatigue and reduce the risk of burnout

The programme blends theoretical insights with practical exercises, focusing on skills that support sustained personal growth and responsible leadership – both now and for the future. By enhancing awareness of themselves and their impact, participants will be better equipped to navigate the demands of modern leadership while staying healthy and effective.

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Methodology

Evidence-Based & Structured for Real Impact

Our program uses a pyramid model to illustrate the journey of personal and professional growth in management:

  • Pinnacle (Ideals/Values): Training begins by defining your core ideals and values. This creates a guiding compass for leadership and is especially valuable when faced with managerial dilemmas.
  • Foundation (Basic Needs): The base of the pyramid covers essential needs—such as sleep, nutrition, and wellbeing—which are crucial for sustainable development and high performance.
  • The Bridge (Habits & Skills): Through a series of small, science-based habits, participants gradually bridge the gap between basic needs and high ideals:
    • Meditation and mindfulness exercises
    • Enhancing perception and awareness
    • Communication techniques
    • Regular sports and movement routines

Our approach blends an initial face-to-face module with an extended period of online coaching, maximizing transfer and lasting change.

Why this approach?

  • Meta-meta-analytic research (Albarracín et al., 2024) demonstrates that targeting habits, access, and social support produces the largest and most sustainable effects on behaviour—far above interventions focused on knowledge or general attitudes alone.
  • Long-term, accompanied learning is proven to support the repetition, feedback, and adaptation required for transferring new skills and forming lasting habits.
  • Integrating values/ideals upfront strengthens resilience and integrity, equipping managers for complex real-world decisions.

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An overview is given in the graph below:

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Sample references:
  • Albarracín, D., Fayaz-Farkhad, P., Granados Samayoa, J. A. (2024). Determinants of behaviour and their efficacy as targets of behavioural change interventions. Nature Reviews Psychology. (link)
  • Baldwin, T. T., Ford, J. K. (1988). Transfer of training: A review and directions for future research. Personnel Psychology, 41(1), 63–105. (link)
  • Lally, P., et al. (2010). How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(6), 998–1009. (link)

Faculty

Beschreibung


Meditation
Nature Experience

Dae Wol

Dae Wol

Gardener, nature guide and
environmentalist

Dae Wol is a devoted Zen Buddhist practitioner, who works as a garden designer and European Tree Worker. He has more than 20 years of experience working in Germany’s most eminent parks (UNESCO World Heritage Sites).

He is a certified Nature Guide and Environmentalist and an officially recognised instructor for health prevention and awareness.

Management
Overall Design

Dr. Andreas Schuler

Dr. Andreas Schuler

Executive Manager, Coach

Andreas is an Executive Manager with a degree in mechanical engineering. He has more than 20 years of experience in senior management positions, most recently as Chief Risk Officer of a large international energy utility and on the board of directors of a pension fund. He also co-founded a start-up in the field of renewable energy for developing countries.

Andreas works as a management coach (INSEAD Coaching Certificate), coaching people in different roles from all over the world. He is Programme Director of the Holistic Management Training programme.

Physical Training
Nutrition

Max Baumert

Max Baumert

World Champion K1 Kickboxing, Coach, Licensed Personal Fitness Trainer

As a performance coach with a degree in Sports Economics and over 15 years of experience in professional sports and personal coaching, Max specialises in integrating physical fitness with mental performance strategies.

He has trained individuals and teams, including professional athletes and corporate leaders, helping them improve discipline, resilience, and focus. His holistic approach builds around optimising both physical and mental fitness, enabling individuals to reach their full potential in high-pressure environments.