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Emotions are key to gaining authenticity and therefore business success Many working in the managing sector at one point in their career turn to professional coaches to seek advice – either for improving a company’s structure, workflows and processes, or to develop their personal potential. The Düsseldorf-based Institut Psychodynamische Organisationsentwicklung + Personalmanagement Düsseldorf e.V., (POP), has set itself the goal to bring together psychoanalysis and coaching. TEXT: JESSICA HOLZHAUSEN I PHOTOS: FLORIAN HEINZEN-ZIOB
“Our psychodynamic concept addresses leaders, managers and business owners, who do not want a quick answer to a simple question, but those who are looking for sustainable change,” says 70 | Issue 40 | July 2016
Prof Dr. Eva-Maria Lewkowicz who has lectured at POP since 2008 and has a wide experience as a business and executive coach. “Our coaching approach confronts people with aspects of themselves that
do not necessarily fit into the company’s official mission statements: fear, envy, shame, grief or depression, aggressions or libidinous entanglements. But even if we deny it, all emotions have reasons to exist and determine how people act. Only if denied, do they cause harm and damage.” Psychodynamic coaching can bring people into contact with themselves and unravel these entanglements. “But this is only one part of what managers can learn,” says Eva-Maria Lewkowicz. “Understanding my innermost motives and drives brings forth a more precise and empathetic