Melissa Abecassis
Melissa Abecassis
Coach | Mediator | Facilitator
Connection | Reconciliation | Collaboration
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What makes us feel alive? How do we live in integrity to that question? with kindness and compassion?
If these questions speak to you, then we have something in common. I believe that being human is a complex undertaking, which requires support, especially if we want to navigate life with integrity, love and creativity.
Most of my work is based on connection, reconciliation and collaboration.
💚 Connection: to ourselves so taht we ca connect to others and our envionment.
🔗 Reconciliation: with our past and future so that we can be creative and work with our reality.
🐝 Collaboration: to develop a collaborative mindset which supports innovative actions for a more beautiful world.
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Specialist Areas:
- Mental Health (especially with teens)
- Relational Dynamics and Conflict Management
- Collective Intelligence and Collaboration for innovation
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I'm currently working with:
I work with various projects supporting or leading on process design, facilitation and coaching.
These are the projects that I regularly work with. I also work with smaller projects or with individuals - as a coach, mentor, consultant.
Trust building and Sustainability Development Goals education consultancy.
💡 Brink
Behavioural Innovation Consultancy helping teams tackle big problems with clarity and courage.
Aiming to destigmatise receiving support and making getting help more accessible.
A global community of young change makers collaborating to create impactful actions.
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Current Passion Projects:
🍽️ Empathy Dinner 🍽️
We host dinners on controversial topics with people who hold opposing views, facilitated to have dialogues.
Find us on spotify and youtube.
***Feel free to get intouch - we always look for people to collaborate with.***
🍀 Empathy Connections 🍀
Monthly study and support group exploring everything that looks at enabling connection, collaboration and innovation.
We especially focus on exploring polarities, divisions, gender/race/identity politics.
In the process of developing processes to support groups and organisations to have courageous conversations about difficult topics.
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Qualifications:
- Certified Relational Dynamics Coach
- Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling
- Youth Mental health First Aider
- Ilan lev Method Certification (feldenkreis inspired)
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Other Training:
- NVC (1000++Hours)
- Mediation
- The Work That Reconnects - Joanna Macy (1year facilitation training)
- Systemic Impact
- Participatory Facilitation
- Dragon Dreaming
- Mindfulness
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Languages:
- English
- French
- Swedish
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☕ Let's have a virtual tea 😊