The Stretch Consultancy Boutique emerged from the vision of humans as full participants in their societal structures and act as guardians of the common good and Life on Earth.
Organisations are spaces where beauty, joy and relationships can flourish
We will make a journey together
“There is something that is unique in this team.”
Phil MartinezCEO, Owl Eyes
We offer a wide array of services aimed at evolve and catalyse individuals as a driving-force of agency.
Evolutionary Consultancy
Discover what lies beyond integral consultancy
Bespoke Programmes
We design evolutionary transformative processes that fits each organisation momentum.
Laboratory of Innovation
Set-up a thematic ORG.labs
Commons’ Organizations
Support the transformation of organisations to commons’ organization.
Our mission is to support the evolution of societal structures by means of catalysing individuals as a driving-force of agency.
- We are a European boutique for designing, consulting, coaching, mentoring, training, hosting, facilitating, supporting organizations in transition and transformation
- Continuous Evolution and Innovation is at our core
- We are a fully installed and living lab for the commons organization model
- We do care for our members
“Consciously or unconsciously, leaders put in place organizational structures, practices, and cultures that make sense to them, that correspond to their way of dealing with the world.
The general rule seems to be that the level of consciousness of an organization cannot exceed the level of consciousness of its leader.”
― Frederic Laloux ―
Our team is comprised of genuinely gifted minds and open hearts
My specialty is to enable a shift into ''New Work'' and what Frederic Lalaoux calls ''Teal Organizations''.
This means: shifting organizational architecture, culture and social dynamics towards rapidly adaptive, highly productive and internally motivated distributed and autonomous clusters of teams made up of self reflective and constantly evolving individuals, collectively driven by; and united around; a meaningful purpose and values that serve and contribute to the wellbeing of the World in powerfully impactful ways. Such organizations re-invent leadership, management, success indicators, concepts of value, ownership, power, conflict, wealth, security and responsibility and outperform preexisting models while revolutionising whole industries and markets. They cultivate conscious and humane work environments and are multi-stakeholder oriented and steered. They are in tune with the technological and generational shift at the workplace and may be acting locally but are thinking globally.
I offer customised programs that take organizations and people from where they are, right now, through an evolutionary process into this new paradigm.
Together with you, we will determine the speed, depth and length of this transformation that most serves your particular needs and context.
This may include:
Assessment of the organization
Training programs
Structural design or redesign
Leadership training and Possibility Coaching
Conflict transformation
Community building
Strategy formulation
I work simultaneously on 4 dimensions: cultural, structural, social dynamics and individual empowerment using a tool-belt of instruments and models (see below) and in collaboration with colleagues from Arise bringing in key skills and insights for your needs and context.
Clients from the private and public sectors and civil society are equally welcomed, with prevalence those with an appetite for change, deeply held values and aiming to have a healthy impact in the World.
Live the change you know the World deserves!
Passionate about transformation, execution and impact, Dunia believes in changing the world every day through the impact of her actions and interactions with people. She is a results-oriented, self-motivated and extremely energetic professional with over 20 years of broad international experience in the manufacturing and financial services sectors. In the recent years, Dunia has been experimenting with new ways of organizing, that distribute power and are human centric. She is a co-founder of neworgs.com. Dunia is now collaborating with K2K Emocionando, supporting businesses discover new ways of organizing that are more human, more agile, more productive and financially sustainable, more harmonious and more conscious.
Over the past 20 years, she collected a vast working experience in Germany, the Maghreb, the
Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
She trains and offers consultancy regarding a wide variety of topics within the realm of Human
Resources Management and Organizational Development as e.g. recruitment, onboarding,
compensation systems, employment conditions and handbooks, performance appraisal, training and
development, etc. She also facilitates interactive and impactful strategic visioning and planning
workshops, team building retreats, multi-stakeholder processes and events.
She passionately supports teams and organizations in co-creating workspaces
full of impact, joy and wellbeing for everyone.
She curates and publishes the Life at Work // Weekly e-newsletter
on the HUMAN futures of work*ing and collaborating:
https://mailchi.mp/05b55e056dc3/lifeatwork-weekly .
Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
She trains and offers consultancy regarding a wide variety of topics within the realm of Human
Resources Management and Organizational Development as e.g. recruitment, onboarding,
compensation systems, employment conditions and handbooks, performance appraisal, training and
development, etc. She also facilitates interactive and impactful strategic visioning and planning
workshops, team building retreats, multi-stakeholder processes and events.
She passionately supports teams and organizations in co-creating workspaces
full of impact, joy and wellbeing for everyone.
She curates and publishes the Life at Work // Weekly e-newsletter
on the HUMAN futures of work*ing and collaborating:
https://mailchi.mp/05b55e056dc3/lifeatwork-weekly .
Evolucionary
I am interested in an evolutionary perspective that cultivates:
I am interested in an evolutionary perspective that cultivates:
Self-knowledge and the continuous evolution of Being (who am I? 'Higher Self') - human development
Relationship with the 'other' in continuous co-evolution (who are we? 'Higher' WE ') - leadership, collaboration and participation
The transformative action of the world towards greater complexity, including and transcending more and more perspectives - effectuation, entrepreneurship
In the evolutionary purpose I support and for an 'evolutionary transformative action' there are two practices from which 'the world that my heart knows is possible to exist' emerges, and a map that helps me navigate the territory of the action of transforming myself and the world around me (leadership):
meditation practice: individual context ('me') - human development
dialogue practice: collective/ team/ organization/ system ('we') - leadership, collaboration and participation
integral map (integral theory)
Human Development
Perhaps the greatest blessing my children and parents gave me was human development, my desire to be a better person. In 2004 I had a big 'quiebre' in my life, my Safira's peers asked me to leave. There began a journey inward, to know who I am, a call to look at 'all' me, light or dark, love or hate, fear and hope. To conceive myself as multiple (e.g. intelligences, personality, parts, sensory), at the same time one with the universe, with nature, with humanity. It could talk about body, consciousness, emotions, relationships, sexuality, parenting and so many other topics; For now I will choose food, meditation, nature and shadow work.
Meditation
Meditation entered my life in 2013 with my first retreat; It was passion at first sight: I sit for meditation and i stay in flow. Since then I have tried various practices, from Mindfulness (cultivating awareness), Heartfulness (cultivating surrender), No Object (cultivating non-duality). My meditation practice is daily (1 hour) with journaling. I make 1-2 retreats annually, one of them 7 or more days.
Food/ Nutrition
One of my greatest pleasures is eating (and drinking); I like to discover new flavors; I like to eat to nourish myself, physically, emotionally, intellectually, energetically and spiritually. Today I follow a organic diet, 100% plant-based, without sugar, without alcohol, with conscious use of soy, gluten and flour.
Shadow work
Who I am, I don't know I am. Make conscious all that I am, light and dark; what I project on others, good , such as my admiration for Christ, M.L. King, Mother Teresa, Buddha, Gandhi, Aristides, among others; what I project f bad, like my child traumas, my relationship wounds, my injured male. Today I do regular shadow work and try to be aware of the manifestations of my subconscious, learning to tame my Gremelin and use it in 'high drama' as referred in Possibility Management.
Nature
Recognizing myself as nature, part and all, 'made of humus, earth' was one of my greatest achievements. Feel the pain of the forest, the tree, the animals, the Planet Earth, the life around me. I live today underground, in a house that enters the 3rd floor. I was born in the middle of the Atlantic surrounded by stunning nature. Farmer's grandson. I am all earth. I feel the seasons change in me, I feel the call of the trees, the melody of the birds, and I love to walk barefoot in the woods, on the beach, in the water.
Metodologias/ práticas
Integral Life Pratice
Inner Transaction program (with José Soutelinho)
Ontological Coaching (Escola Europeia de Coaching)
Possibility Management
Search Inside Your Self (mindfulness and emotional intelligence)
Positive Psychology
Shamanism by the Shamanic Studies Foundation
Permaculture
The Work That Reconnects (Deep Ecology)
Invisible Artists (delicate activism by Sue Davidoff and Allan Kaplan)
Yoga
Chi chong
Mindfulness
Heartfulness
'Objectless meditation' (Zen meditation)
Deep U (with Vasco Gaspar)
Dialogue
Conversation has always been a mystery and a pleasure to me. In 2009 I discovered 'dialogue' and the passion was immediate. Otto Scharmer, dialogue scholar, professor at MIT, author of Theory U and founder of the Presencing Institute says that 'Dialogue is to a group / team what mindfulness is to the individual'. Mindfulness is what allows the individual to be aware of who he is in every moment and to act consciously. Dialogue is what allows a group / team to take conscious action, embrace the unknown, resolve conflicts, create new meanings, new dreams. Know thenself, see thenself in the mirror. It's a theory, it's a method (or a set of them), it's a practice. It is a way of being in life. It is a conversation with center, without sides. ‘The art of thinking together ', as refered by W. Isaacs. For me, dialogue is a lifestyle that I want to cultivate every day.
Some of the theories / methodologies I've been cultivating since 2009 (dialogue, participation and collaboration):
Dialogue by D. Bohm
Dialogue by W. Isaacs
Circle Way, Christina Baldwin,
Way of Council, Ojai Foundation
Forum
Open Space Technology
World Cafe
Pro-action cafe
Six Hats
Non-Violent Communication
U Theory/ Presencing Institute
Appreciative Inquiry
Dragon Dreaming
Design Thinking
Lego Serious Play
Leadership
It enchants me the way we influence each other, the way we sometimes follow and other times we are followed; the way we welcome other's ideas and how we sow ideas in others, how our behaviors catch on and tend to form new action patterns as Minztberg alerts. Over the past 10 years, I have discovered several leadership concepts that inquiry me and open new perspectives:
Dialogic Leadership
Relational Leadership
Servant Leadership
Contemplative Leadership
Embodiment Leadership
Resonant Leadership
Participative Leadership
Collaborative Leadership
Ethic Leadership
Authentic Leadership
Effectuation/ Entrepreneurial Leadership
Creative Leadership
Sustainable Leadership
Weaving leadership
Digital leadership
Evolutionary Leadership
Integral Leadership
Commons Leadership
Open Leadership
Integral Theory
Around 2007, a friend's mother sent me a little book, saying 'Marco will like this book': it was 'Ken Wilber's theory of everything'; it was love at first sight; a meta-theory that helped me see the world, bigger than I thought it was, and as big as I felt it was. I know that Integral Theory is a map, like all other maps. Since coming to this map I have cultivated in myself the prospect of gathering, integrating more and more, increasingly having an integral view of Life and Human Being. I am very curious about what post integral means. Some interests are:
Grow up (vertical grow)
Awake up
Clean Up
Show up
Integral Human Development
Integral Coaching
Integral Psychology
Integral Spirituality
Integral Education
Integral wellbeing (and health)
Integral Ecology
Integral Economy and Management (including organization design)
Integral Leadership
Integral Entreprenuership
Integral Consultancy
I do use a whole range of tools. All of them appeal to integral and evolutionary purpose, exploring and building on the individual and collective capacity mind-heart-will.
I do design processes for individuals and organizations.
I do design processes for individuals and organizations.
MENTOR & ADVISOR
As advisor, I have been collaborating with small and big, local and global organizations. Focused in manifesting all the potential, my close to heart subjects are: organizational culture transformation, branding – communication, stretching potential, sustainability and climate change challenges, future sensing, collective creational capacitation and “teal”-ing.
NETWORK ENTREPRENEUR
I am an entrepreneur for more than 15 years. Since 2010 I moved to eco-social entrepreneurship, igniting, connecting and cross-pollinating projects, organisations, countries.
I do have a clear criteria on selecting projects and organisations that I work with.
The evolutionary dimension is a must-have-present in all the activities that I engage.
Paulo is a creative Catalyst, Change Maker, Passionate about joy, collaboration, collective learning, awareness based practices, wisdom, innovation, happiness, purpose and meaning creation .Helping companies to become beautiful spaces for profound humanity and positive impact - towards Humanity & Planet higher Work and Self
Married, father of two boys, loves the sea and lived "in the magical presence of lighthouses", flavouring its life with romance.
(De)formed in Computer Science, Organizational Design and Engineering. Lived inside Big Corporations for 21 Years realizing the power of innovation and creativity and dealing with critical corporate "blind spots" and "humanity challenges".
It is his strong belief that we need to upgrade our understanding of Humanity & Planet to solve the challenges at hand.
His present journey is dedicated precisely to this adventure, focusing in particular on how to change the present dynamics of society, their systemic frames and institutions, to ensure a critical, determined contribution to our planetary challenges. Making Organizations beautiful spaces for profound humanity and positive impact.
Fascinated with the arts of gathering, dialog, transformation, systemic thinking, and search for purpose and meaning.
At the core of our values stays Evolution
We had a long journey to arrive here, and on the way we worked with this organisations.
