Fokusraum (Bern)

Karin Kopše,

Specialist in Coaching Psychology FSP, Lic. phil. Occupational and Organizational Psychologist, Federal Diploma in Vocational and Career Counseling

Born in the snowy winter of 1968, mother of two daughters, I enjoy my free time in nature, reading or singing, and also in company with a good meal or game.

For almost 20 years I have been working as an industrial and organizational psychologist, career consultant and coach. I am a member of the Federation of Swiss Psychologists, the Swiss Society for Career and Personnel Psychology and the Swiss Society for Coaching Psychology and work according to their principles. I test the quality of my work in inter- and supervision sessions and continue to educate myself.

In terms of attitude, I am a solution- and resource-oriented coach with a rich backpack of methods and a wide range of experience. I am influenced by the hypnosystemic concepts of Gunther Schmidt and the work of Noni Höfner, among others. Already during my studies I was particularly interested in "transitions", because transitions always mean a change to something new. Now I have the good fortune to work with you on exactly such situations in my current work. It requires a close look, perhaps an expansion of the field of vision or a change of perspective. Here you will find the space to focus, to put yourself and your concerns in the center and to find solutions.

Coaching - Work Life Balance

You are often unfocused, feel stressed or overwhelmed? You doubt your abilities, feel dull, and lack the courage and strength to improve something about your situation on your own, and you need an impulse to set this process in motion?

Together we clarify your situation in our coaching room in Bern, define your goals and become clear about your resources and competencies. Reflecting on your current situation helps you to tackle problems in a targeted manner and to develop concrete approaches to solving them. During the coaching, I support you in developing new perspectives and thereby expanding your scope of action. Burnout risks are addressed so that we can take timely and preventive action.

Leadership coaching

You are about to take over a leadership position and would like to prepare this step carefully? You have been working as a manager for some time and would like to take the time and space to exchange ideas with a competent counterpart?

In a coaching session we clarify together your leadership behavior in your current position. In doing so, we examine your behavior and your attitude towards your employees. Any potential for conflict will also be discussed and solutions will be developed.

Career Counseling

Are you thinking of developing your career? You intend to change jobs and are not sure whether your application documents meet the current requirements? You have to decide between a specialist or management career? You are not sure if your job is the right one for you? You are afraid of a restructuring at work?

During a career counseling session, we reflect together in our coaching room in Bern on your current professional situation and position, develop goals and check them for their achievability. We develop strategies to better deal with changes and challenges in your professional environment. I accompany you in important decisions and help you to recognize your potential.

Coaching - Work and Learning Strategy

Do you keep putting off writing papers or learning? Are you plagued by test anxiety, before or during an exam? You need more time than others to master the learning material? You lack a method to solve a task unerringly? You have been diagnosed with AD(H)S or dyslexia/dyslexia or you suspect that you are affected?

Coaching involves reflecting on your situation together and developing strategies to deal with the challenges. We examine blockages and develop strategies to improve structures and reduce anxiety. In our coaching room in Bern, we take the time to find your individual solution.

Coaching - Conflict Resolution

Do you find yourself recurrently entangled in similar conflicts and lack the ability to recognize or resolve them in time? You feel uncomfortable in a team and fear the escalation of a conflict? You are unsure whether your way of resolving conflicts is the right one?

In coaching, we look for the underlying causes of an existing conflict, clarify your role in conflicts and develop measures to prevent it from spreading or escalating. We clarify your methods of conflict management and look for ways to develop them further.

Supervision

You would like to reflect on your professional actions? You would like to clarify your position in a group or in a team with your work colleagues? You would like to develop personally in your professional environment?

During supervision we reflect together on the role and relationship dynamics in your professional environment. We develop new perspectives and thereby recognize new possibilities for action. We initiate learning processes that promote the development of your professional identity and strengthen your awareness of your professional role.

Coaching - Family Business

The timely planning of succession is a great challenge for every entrepreneur. Not infrequently, fears and insecurities block the passing on of one's life's work to possible successors. In a coaching session, we work together to clarify internal and/or family situations that stand in the way of a positive succession plan.

Coaching - Career Decisions

It is not always easy for those responsible to make further personnel decisions. A wish for further training cannot be fulfilled, the filling of a management position runs differently than planned, or there is even an outplacement. I support you in coaching during these difficult decision-making processes.

team development/coaching

Whether a team can fulfill its mission well is determined by many factors. Are the tasks in the team clearly defined? Who takes on which role? How does the team organize itself, how do cooperation and communication work? These questions can arise during team development.

In coaching, we work out solutions together to clarify the strengths and weaknesses of a team, to recognize the potential of teamwork and to use resources wisely. We also look at the informal role behavior of team members and clarify tasks and goals.

Seminars

On request, I offer customized workshops on topics such as communication, appraisal interviews as a leadership tool, conflict management or dealing with stress. If you are interested, I would also be happy to work with you on workshops on other topics.

Together with Karin Gasser, I now also offer horse-supported seminars on the topics of leadership, team development and cooperation.

School Management

The demands on teachers are manifold, and new challenges through integrative teaching such as team teaching can lead to stress for teachers. In a team coaching session for part or all of the teaching staff, we reflect on smoldering conflicts or work out ways to avoid them.

As a school principal, would you like to support a teacher in expanding or rediscovering his or her competencies? Or would you like to rethink your school's internal professional development or redesign your career choice concept and would like external support? Thanks to my former position as a career counselor, I know how to work with schools and the AKVB and BSLB. I support you in the implementation of projects, concepts and processes.

Hospitals, Homes

Would you like to develop yourself and your team, reflect on the professional actions of your team or improve the quality of the professional work in your team?

In coaching we look together at the role and relationship dynamics between employees and clients, the cooperation in the team or in your organization. We develop new perspectives and thereby recognize new possibilities for action. I accompany you in concepts, projects and processes.

Associations/Specialists

On request I offer customized seminars on topics such as team development, communication, conflict management or dealing with stress. If you are interested, I would also be happy to work with you on seminars on other topics.

I support you in the development of a concept, in the planning and implementation of projects, in the optimization of processes.

Administration

I would be happy to develop a customized solution for you in the areas of individual or team coaching. Or I support you in the preparation of management as well as career decisions.

On request I offer customized seminars on topics such as team development, communication, conflict management or dealing with stress.

Horse Assisted Seminars for Private

You want to check your effect on others? You would like to strengthen your assertiveness and your self-perception and the perception of others? You would like to better understand your position within a team? You would like to develop yourself and your skills? You would like to reflect on your leadership qualities and expand your position?

Horse-assisted seminars are experience-oriented and support self-reflection. In dealing with horses we learn to treat each other with respect, we recognize and acknowledge our own limits and those of others. We learn to adapt or expand our behavioral repertoire and to further develop our leadership qualities. Because: Horses are highly sensitive beings that react to their environment and to their counterpart in every situation. This happens among their peers, but it also happens in contact with people, where horses immediately perceive mood swings, changes in group dynamics, blockages and unclear communication and "respond" accordingly. In a horse-supported seminar we make use of this characteristic of the horse, because from the interaction horse - human being attitudes, characteristics as well as strengths and weaknesses with humans can be read off directly.

Horse Assisted Seminars for SMEs and Organizations

For executives

Horse assisted seminars are suitable for employees of all management levels. In a seminar, we develop new, essential insights in terms of leadership skills and self-awareness in employee management. Because: Horses are highly sensitive beings that react to their environment and to their counterpart in every situation. This happens among their peers, but it also happens in contact with people, where horses immediately perceive mood swings, changes in group dynamics, lack of concentration, lack of leadership qualities and "respond" accordingly. In a horse-supported seminar, we make use of these characteristics of the horse, because in the horse-human interaction, attitudes, characteristics as well as strengths and weaknesses in humans can be read directly or the participants experience them directly.

A horse-supported seminar helps you to develop your natural leadership qualities, to communicate more clearly and to strengthen your self-perception and the perception of others.

For teams

Horse-supported seminars are also suitable for team development. Solving common tasks with the horse, letting yourself be led or being led, perceiving your own position in the team: Here, too, the horse's reaction helps us to reflect who takes on which role and when, how communication and cooperation work in the team, and how resources can be used sensibly.

Information

Basically, two types of seminars are offered on the topics of "Leadership" and "Cooperation". For companies and organizations we are happy to create a program tailored to your needs.

The seminars are led by Karin Kopše (coaching) and Karin Gasser (equestrian pedagogy) and are held at Landhaus Aebnit in Kehrsatz (www.heilpaedagogisches-reiten.ch).