Hi! I’m Jonas
I support changemakers to navigate uncertain times with clarity.
Even the greatest visionaries need support sometimes. In the times we’re living through, it’s easy to get stuck in dead-ends and over simplistic answers. Staying present to the full complexity and uncertainty of this time is challenging. It can be emotionally overwhelming and beyond what we can grasp with the intellectual capacity of one human brain alone. However, it is essential we don’t hide from what is happening, and it’s easier not to hide in good company. Companionship lends clarity and courage. It’s a positive sum game. That’s what I’m here for: to be your companion on the journey through uncertain times.
I work with individuals, teams, organisations and networks who are dedicated to making a beneficial impact.
How I support people like you
I offer 1:1 and Group Coaching, to support you to unlock the next steps in your developmental journey.
I help to design and facilitate Off-Sites & Network Gatherings, to help your team/network strengthen its relationships, rest, reflect, get inspired and plan next steps together.
I facilitate Retrospectives, Strategy Conversations, Visioning Processes and Conflict Transformation, to help your team to learn from past engagements, be crystal clear on the steps ahead, connect with their shared values and make use of the generative potential inherent in each conflict.
I work in English or German.
We’re a good fit if…
… you’re dedicated to making a contribution to the world. You have a sense of what your contribution wants to be but something is still holding you back.
… you are interested in how to lean into interdependence, community and relationships of trust more. You wonder how to ask for support more often.
… you recognise that our reality is a complex one and there likely are no easy answers to any of the challenges we’re facing.
… you want to expand your capacity for facing that complexity and finding meaningful ways of taking action through it. Sometimes have difficulty dicerning truth from impulse.
… you want to enrol others in your cause and develop your leadership skills.
My Approach
In whatever modality we work together, my promise is to be 100% on your team. While you are the expert for your own context, I bring grounded presence and clarity, years of my own experience and a wealth of tools, to help you identify the blindspots you can’t see from where you stand. Together we’ll hone in on what’s most important to you or your team right now, identify what’s possible with the resources you have access to and make a plan for taking action in a grounded and regenerative way.
My coaching is informed by the ontological coaching model, Internal Family Systems and The Work That Teconnects. I’m certified by the International Coaching Federation and adhere to the code of ethics of the ICF.
My facilitation is informed by Reinventing Organisations, Integral Theory, The Art of Hosting, microsolidarity, adrienne maree brown, Liberating Structures, The Work That Reconnects and more than a decade of my own organising experience.
About me
I’ve always been an Organiser. Starting with plotting with the neighborhood kids to put on a bike race, on to leading our high-school students union, to being engaged with farming cooperatives, to starting our own community space with friends, to my present engagements at Civil Action Network and the microsolidarity network. Bringing people together for a shared purpose, creating a space for empowerment and mutual growth has been the common denominator across the different chapters of my life.
Accross all these chapters I’ve learned many lessons, but the most important one is this:
Lofty goals becomes attainable with the right companions. The outlook on the future of humanity becomes less paralysing with the the right companions. Live becomes more fun with the right companions. No-one has ever achieved anything on their own. If you feel stuck it’s probably because you’re not leaning on your peers as much as you could.
I’m doing this work because I’ve had the privilege of experiencing what becomes possible when we are “in it together”. And because I’ve experienced the pain of being “in it with others”. I know how painful it can be to have great care for the world, and to be faced with the sometimes difficult reality of acting out of that care.
Affiliations
As a shaper at CAN I help to build an organisation that drives civic empowerment in central and eastern Europe. We support citizens initiatives, NGOs and grassroots groups to play the long game of social change, lower barriers to civic participation for marginalized groups and create spaces for dialogue and reconciliation across political and social divides.
As a collaborator at The Hum I support collaborative teams, organisations and networks to navigate a new paradigm of purpose driven work with clarity and ease.
As strategic advisor to the microsolidarity network I help to develop a decentralised network of community cultivators who are doing the ground work of stitching together the social fabric that has been torn so deeply.
What my clients say
Jonas is attentive and kindly provocative. He’s got a feel for what is crucial and has a loving way of helping others navigate their complex realities. I wanted to offer something that felt quite radical to the organization that I work with and it felt daunting and confusing. Jonas enabled me to recognize and step up to what it is that I actually wanted to do and acknowledge what I feared about doing it. He also gave me the right tools for the job and helped me gain courage and clarity on how I wanted to do it.
Jonas supported me with great depth and humour in finding the courage needed to start publishing my writing. He supported me in addressing my large list of arguments why I should not follow that dream, shrinking my impostor syndrome to a manageable size.
Together with Jonas, I was able to recognize that it’s possible for me to take steps to turn ideas in my head into reality. And to find effectiveness within myself through curiosity and courage. I am now actually in the process of launching a free, multilingual electronics workshop for girls and women!
Work with me!
Book me for a one-off coaching / consultation session for an extra dose of support. Choose a rate that suits your budget.
If you’re interested in a longer term coaching relationship, want to collaborate on a project or simply catch up, you can book a free discovery call or coffee chat.
Stay in touch
Find me on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack or shoot me an email at hello@jonasgroener.com
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