Simone Poutnik

Current

Guardian at Axladitsa Avatakia
Co-Founder at Natural Innovation Net
Freelance Consultant at Community Intelligence

Co-Founder at The Hub in Brussels

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Past

Project Coordinator at European Academy of Business in Society
trainer at AIESEC
Sustainability Drive Team at AIESEC International

Training Assistant at Twinn - Lifemenagement
Editor Team - International Congress 2004 at AIESEC
Local Committee President at AIESEC
trainer at Pantarei - eco-village and center for environmental education and ecovillage

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Education

Università per Stranieri di Perugia

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Industry

Civic & Social Organization

Simone Poutnik’s Summary

Born and grown up in Germany, studied Communication Systems for International Relations in Italy and now based in Brussels.

My life's purpose is about serving the evolution of consciousness. My current inquiry is about how to innovate naturally. How can we evolve as individuals, companies, communities or even wider systems, building on what is authentic, meaningful and sustainable, and letting go of what is not serving? How can we be and behave more like eco-systems? I believe that we humans need to learn to dance between chaos and order, to be more in flow with life.

That's why I am a practitioner of the U-process http://www.presencing.com/ and the Art of Hosting http://www.artofhosting.org/.

In 2002 I went to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa. Since then I have been working on mainstreaming Corporate Social Responsibility, building a community of Social Innovators, advancing Social Entrepreneurship in Belgium and on how to create meaningful learning environments that allow for authentic connection, bring forth deep shifts in people and innovation in systems.

I am currently working on projects in the Uk, Belgium and Germany and I would love to work on empowerment in Africa... I can still smell the earth and feel the drums in my heart!

Simone Poutnik’s Specialties:

participatory process design and facilitation (in English, German and Italian), stakeholder/dialogue interviewing, Theory-U, presencing, Change Lab, World Café, Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry, Circle Practice, incubating and cultivating communities of practice (CoP), project and event design, online facilitation, stakeholder mapping, community building, harvesting (creative documentation and pattern seeking)

Simone Poutnik’s Experience

Guardian

Axladitsa Avatakia

(Civic & Social Organization industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 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.
Co-Founder

Natural Innovation Net

(Civic & Social Organization industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 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.
Freelance Consultant

Community Intelligence

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

October 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Facilitator for
- the Art of Participatory Leadership - hosting meaningful conversations
- incubating and cultivating Communities of Practice/Social Networks
Co-Founder

The Hub in Brussels

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 4 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
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)
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
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
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)
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
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