Natural Innovator
Brussels Area, Belgium
- Current
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- Guardian at Axladitsa Avatakia
- Founder at Natural Innovation Net
- Freelance Consultant at Community Intelligence
- Co-Founder at The Hub in Brussels
- Past
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- Project Coordinator at European Academy of Business in Society
- trainer at AIESEC
- Sustainability Drive Team at AIESEC International
- Education
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- Università per Stranieri di Perugia
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Simone Poutnik’s Summary
Born and grown up in Germany, studied Communication Systems for International Relations in Italy and now nomading between Brussels, London, Greece, Germany...
Apart from being co-founder of the Hub Brussels, I do process design and facilitation work for social innovation in English, German and Italian.
My inquiry is all about how to innovate naturally. How can we design spaces, initiatives, communities etc. by building on what is authentic, meaningful and sustainable, and letting go of what is not serving?
I am working with the U-process http://www.presencing.com/ and I am a practitioner of the art of hosting meaningful conversations and initiatives http://www.artofhosting.org/.
I have been working for CommunityIntelligence http://community-intelligence.com, the European Commission and the European Social Fund on supporting Communities of Practice, e.g. CoP on Partnership in the ESF http://partnership.esflive.eu/, for Siemens and WWF.
I am also a guardian of Axladitsa Avatakia http://www.axladitsa.org, a home place, an olive farm and a place of collective inquiry, learning and retreat - a place for Living Wholeness in Greece.
In the past I worked as a membership and project coordinator for EABIS http://www.eabis.org, as a facilitator of experiential workshops at the eco village PantaRei http://www.pantarei-cea.it/ and in the restaurant sector.
I love story telling, creative writing, dance and other forms of body work, meditation, cooking, being in nature and learning from natural systems.
My learning goals for this year are to get a basic understanding of biomimicry, improve my french and start speaking a little bit of dutch. I'd also like to do a course in graphic facilitation.
Simone Poutnik’s Specialties:
participatory process design and facilitation (in English, German and Italian), incubating and cultivating communities of practice, project and event management, online facilitation, stakeholder mapping, community building, harvesting (creative documentation and pattern seeking)
Simone Poutnik’s Experience
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Guardian
Axladitsa Avatakia
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Axladitsa-Avatakia is a home place, an olive farm and a place of collective inquiry, learning and retreat, where the peaceful nature and community of wildlife create a powerful living systems 'container' - a place for Living Wholeness.
Axladitsa is a practice ground and catalyst for exploring the relationship between the power of the place and the power of our work - through real-time continuous individual and collective inquiry - so participating in hosting the next level of our human evolution. -
Founder
Natural Innovation Net
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Facilitating natural innovation through co-creating safe containers for diverse groups to access their inner wisdom and putting their collective intelligence into life affirming action. Seeing organisations as eco systems and bringing back natural life cycles: building on what is meaningful, authentic and sustainable, and gracefully letting go of what does not serve anymore.
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Freelance Consultant
Community Intelligence
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Facilitator for
- the Art of Participatory Leadership - hosting meaningful conversations
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Co-Founder
The Hub in Brussels
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
The Hub is a growing network of collaborative workspaces for social innovation in major world cities. Hubs exist to inspire and support social innovators to realise imaginative initiatives for a radically better world. The Hub offeres membership of an inspirational habitat for innovators from different sectors, disciplines and backgrounds to work, meet, learn and connect in the physical and virtual space.
The Hub is a place for making things happen. All the tools and trimmings needed to cultivate an idea, launch a project, host a meeting and run a business. From Hubs across the world we have learned that social innovators need access to affordable spaces, resources and market-facing opportunities to thrive: space, knowledge, capital and networks. At The Hub one can find channels to such resources and opportunities, both on a global and a local level. -
Project Coordinator
European Academy of Business in Society
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)
April 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 6 months)
support to Membership manager, account management, event coordination, project management and coordination, research, support research, education and training projects on Corporate Responsibility, multistakeholder communication, networking
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trainer
AIESEC
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
July 2002 — July 2005 (3 years 1 month)
training and facillitating on conferences, events and workshops for students about cultural sensitivity, team management, project management, personal development and world issues (poverty, enviromnent, sustainable development, Corporate Responsibility)
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Sustainability Drive Team
AIESEC International
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 2004 — February 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Involvement in the creation of the global Corporate Social Responsibility strategy for AIESEC (more than 90 countries), country coaching for strategy implementation, redesign of online community, coordination of an international virtual team, edition of final report
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Training Assistant
Twinn - Lifemenagement
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
December 2004 — December 2004 (1 month)
support to Managing trainer in facilitating planning process in training for Management body of a multinational company
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Editor Team - International Congress 2004
AIESEC
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2004 — August 2004 (1 month)
Worked in a team of 50 people from all over the world to coordinate a conference with 600+ international delegates, design and roll out of Sustainability Campaign, output edition, team management of a multi-cultural team (10 ppl from all continents)
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Local Committee President
AIESEC
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
July 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Team management of an international team, legal responsible, financial management, project management, external and public relations
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trainer
Pantarei - eco-village and center for environmental education and ecovillage
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Program Development industry)
January 2004 — May 2004 (5 months)
guided experiential tours through the eco-village, design and delivery of interactive workshops for children (age 6-15) on environmental sustainability
Simone Poutnik’s Education
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Università per Stranieri di Perugia
masters , International Communication , 2000 — 2006
Additional Information
Simone Poutnik’s Websites:
Simone Poutnik’s Groups:
The Hub, Art of Hosting, Pioneers of Change, AIESEC, Society for Organisational Learning,
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open-sustainability -
The Hub World
