Erasmus+ Academic Teachers and Staff Development Courses 🎓

developing Future Skills

through Integrative Art-based Retreats

unique, creative, innovative, and refreshing art-based training workshop for academic teachers and staff

Our program integrates personal, social, and future skills into one ambitious, rich, and powerful art-based training experience. Participants embark on a journey through rhythm, movement, and contemplation, discovering their value for professional development and inclusive learning across physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions. These 2-3 or 4 day retreats offer an excellent opportunity to strengthen collaboration, communication, and integration among university staff and alliances, while exploring the best practices and tools from the arts and C-level management.

The training course is the result of years of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural  experiences,  and is a collaborative initiative between: Zofia Dzik and Piotr Gospodarczyk

Our quality

over 9 years of experience leading the multicultural UniOrchestra project in collaboration with the Arqus European University Alliance


over 16 years of experience trainings from classrooms to boardrooms, interactions and completed projects with experts from various arts, sciences, and the corporate world


over 20 years of experience on self development based on the Coherent Leadership™️ approach emphasizing multidimensional approach to human being in physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions

WHAT WILL WE LEARN?

Over a 2-3 or 4 day training journey, you will explore art-based method and practices that invite you to surrender to the joy and flow of teamwork — inspired by the best traditions of arts ( ethnic and jazz music, physical theatres, contemplative practices ) and C-level management. You will also gain practical tools to design meaningful and engaging learning processes -  for yourself and your team - that foster:

  • well-being and resilience
  • creativity and innovations
  • communication and cooperation
  • integration, and teams growth

Discover Our Training Curriculum

Step 1 — Rhythmos or Logos

  • Meaning as the greatest motivator: the deeper sense of school and rhythm

  • Rhythm for neuroplasticity: supporting lifelong learning, healthy habits and well-being

  • The rhythms of creativity, communication, and cooperation

  • Modern rituals for building strong communities

  • The learning circle: inspiration → imitation → improvisation → innovation

Step 2 — Creative Movement

  • Bringing body into rhythm through mindful and imaginative movement

  • Preparing body for focus and cognitive tasks

  • Improving posture for health and presence

  • Communication through body: needs, emotions, language, and the art of public speaking

  • Body awareness and Silence for managing over-tasking-stimulation-thinking, and stress

Step 3 — Operation Contemplation

  • The art of nature and beauty: exercises and tasks for developing deeper connection

  • Listening and silence: exercises to sharpen awareness, self-reflection, and communication

  • Contemplation through words: proverbs, and questions

  • Contemplative arts in practice: emotional intelligence and serenity

  • Sensible thinking plus intuition, decision making process 

Step 4 — The Art of being together 

  • Cooperation, communication, agility and integration through creative teamwork

  • management and leadership:  personal and social growth

  • The Art of Living and the Coherent Leadership Model™: towards sustainable world

Come for the Experience !

we organize course sessions in

beautiful French 🇫🇷 Italian 🇮🇹 and Slovenian 🇸🇮 Alps 🏔️ as well as in Austria 🇦🇹  

big cities Lisboa 🇵🇹 Porto 🇵🇹 Oslo 🇳🇴 Paris 🇫🇷 Valencia 🇪🇸 Madrit 🇪🇸 Berlin 🇩🇪

and islands Malta  🇲🇹  Sardinia 🇮🇹 Gran Canaria 🇪🇸 Reunion or Guadeloupe 🇫🇷

Email us for more info 

We look forward to hearing from you:

piotr@schoolofrhythms.com

If your group consists of more than 10 participants, we are able to organize the course at a date and location of your preference in the following countries: Austria , France , Greece , Germany , Italy , Malta , Norway , Portugal , Poland , and Spain