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Culture of cooperation

Between individuality and community

Developing a culture of cooperation

We support you in creating a coherent culture of cooperation that harmonises your values, structures and strategies. Through reflection and development processes, we support you in consciously shaping communication and cooperation patterns in order to create a lively, inclusive and sustainable working environment.

Our understanding of a culture of cooperation. 

 

 

 

Culture is like a lens through which we see the world.
Clifford Geertz

The culture of collaboration describes how people in organisations communicate and cooperate with each other - consciously and unconsciously. It is reflected in the way feedback is given, mistakes are addressed, trust is built and how ranks, power and inclusion are negotiated.

Culture is a powerful dimension in organisations: It can drive or inhibit developments, strengthen or thwart structures. As such, it requires mindfulness and reflection. Culture is never neutral - it is woven from values, assumptions, rituals and stories that shape people's behaviour.

A successful culture of cooperation not only strengthens the quality of contact within the team, but also the ability to face challenges together and find sustainable solutions.

Culture becomes visible through communication. Recognising and consciously shaping patterns and habits in communication is a key step on the way to lively collaboration. It is essential to create transparency about processes and information and to open up spaces for reflection and dialogue.

Reflecting on power, privilege and inclusion plays a crucial role in this. Sharing creative and decision-making power creates trust and the courage to try out new things. A conscious culture of collaboration not only promotes individual development, but also strengthens the collective potential of teams and organisations.

Our offer

We support you in consciously shaping and developing your collaboration:

  • Team and organisational development:
    With a holistic perspective, we support you in harmonising structures, strategies and culture.
  • Reflection and organisation of cooperation:
    We help you to recognise communication and cooperation patterns, consciously shape informal rules and build trust within the team.
  • Development of an inclusive work culture:
    We promote reflection on power and privilege, create spaces for empowerment and support you in developing a culture that brings inclusion to life.
  • Creative formats for cultural development:
    From mission statement processes to annual training courses such as „Leadership with attitude“ or „Self:Organisational:Development (S:O:E)“ - we create formats that explore the existing culture and test new forms of collaboration.

Examples of our work

  • Supporting a managing board in resolving conflicts and clarifying common expectations of cooperation.
  • Reflection and further development of the culture in an internationally active organisation that has switched to an agile management principle.

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„Decision-making culture analysis“ – a tool for reflecting on decision-making processes

Change Essentials Module - An online course on the basics and methods of collaboration.

Blog article „Practising power criticism“ - suggestions for consciously reflecting on power and culture.

Blog posts on the topic: Culture of collaboration

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Culture of cooperation

Art of Hosting Leipzig - you were incredible!

We still don't have the words to describe in detail how we experienced the Art of Hosting training in Leipzig at the beginning of May. Julia - the initiator - has already summarised it here: I had no real idea what to expect. It was intense exciting funny quiet loud brave sad hard listening [...]

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Culture of cooperation, self-organisation, leadership

Cultivating trust

In January, I was alone on the Atlantic coast in Portugal. No programme and no agenda. And at some point, a song by AnnenMayKantereit came to mind: „Three days by the sea and I know who I am again.“ I knew at that moment: that's exactly it. The sea brings me back to myself. And somehow [...]

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Organisational development, culture of cooperation, self-organisation

System trust

Cultivating trust is one of the basic tasks of social development. Whether as self-confidence, as trust in relevant others, as structural trust or as deeply rooted basic trust and trust in God - without confidence in a sustainable network, social action remains groundless. According to Charles Feldman, trust is the decision „to submit something that is important to you to the behaviour of another [...]".

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INFOABEND: Transforming conflicts

INFOVER EVENT: Transforming conflicts - living creative power - advanced training, November 2026 to May 2027

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INFOABEND: Transforming conflicts

INFOVER EVENT: Transforming conflicts - living creative power - advanced training, November 2026 to May 2027

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Transforming conflicts - living creative power

Transforming conflicts - living creative power - advanced training, November 2026 to May 2027

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