SEC Levels

"Leadership starts with yourself."

🎯 Objectives
Foundations of emotional self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-responsibility.
Working with one's own nervous system is the prerequisite for any form of conscious leadership.

📦 Core Modules

🧭 Learning Goals

• Development of emotional self-awareness

• Understanding of triggers, defense strategies, and bodily responses

• Building first self-regulation tools

• Introduction to self-leadership, inner dialogue & communication awareness

🧬 Psychological & Neurobiological Foundations

• Polyvagal theory, stress & defense systems (Fight / Flight / Freeze / Fawn)

• Shame, guilt, inner child, parts work

• Connection between emotion, nervous system, and language

🧰 Methods

• Theoretical input & lectures

• Guided bodywork & nervous system practices

• Reflection groups & peer feedback

• Workbook ("In Love with Myself") + transfer tasks

✨ Quote for Attitude
“You cannot lead others before you lead yourself.”

"Relationships are not tools – they are the foundation of all leadership."

🎯 Objectives
Development of emotional leadership in social contexts:
Take responsibility, enable co-regulation, navigate conflict, and create safe relationships.
Leadership becomes emotionally anchored connection.

📦 Core Modules

🧭 Learning Goals

• Understanding emotional leadership as connection and responsibility

• Cultivating psychological safety in teams

• Practicing mindful dialogue and conflict moderation

• Developing authority without dominance

• Learning to embrace and shape diversity and uncertainty

🧬 Psychological & Leadership Theory Foundations

• Attachment theory (Bowlby/Ainsworth) in leadership

• Co-regulation, polyvagal theory (Porges) and emotional fields

• Error culture, micromanagement & psychodynamic role understanding

• Dealing with power dynamics, role confusion, and shadow projection

🧰 Methods

• Roleplays on de/escalation, conflict, and feedback

• Group dynamics workshops with observation phases

• Supervision, video analysis & peer reflection

• Individual coaching on leadership identity

✨ Quote for Attitude
“Leadership begins with co-regulation.”

"Systems carry responsibility – people live within them."

🎯 Objectives
Recognize, understand, and transform complex emotional dynamics in organizations.
Systemic leadership means taking responsibility for collective patterns, cultural codes, and implicit power structures.
Emotional leadership becomes a cultural practice.

📦 Core Modules

🧭 Learning Goals

• Identify and influence emotional system dynamics

• Uncover toxic cultures, collective narratives, and implicit structures

• Understand inclusion & diversity as emotional, not just structural

• Establish emotional sustainability in leadership & organizations

• Recognize emotional leadership as societal responsibility

🧬 Systemic & Key Theoretical Foundations

• Social systems (Luhmann), systemic constellations (Weber / Varga v. Kibéd)

• Power theory (Foucault), shadow work (Jung, Rohr, Gergen)

• Neurodivergence as resource & challenge

• Trauma sensitivity in leadership, diversity, and cultural change

🧰 Methods

• Systemic structure constellations: making roles & organizational images visible

• Storywork: corporate stories as emotional code mirrors

• Culture mapping & scenario work: reshaping emotional architecture

• Large group processes: working with collective emotions

✨ Quote for Attitude
“Systems feel – not just lead.”

"Share what you embody."

🎯 Objectives
Enable participants to hold emotional safety in small groups, moderate sharing processes, and take initial responsibility for collective dynamics – without yet being SEC5.
This level bridges lived practice and the first steps of social responsibility – without the full structural weight of a multiplier role.

📦 Core Modules

🧭 Learning Goals

• Consciously shape and share one’s emotional coherence

• Moderate small formats (sharing circles, micro-retreats, SEC check-ins)

• Take first responsibility for group emotions & regulation

• Learn to differentiate between hosting & teaching

• Begin assuming cultural responsibility as an emotional peer

🧰 Methods

• Hands-on exercises for peer leadership, space-holding & moderation

• Reflection groups on attitude, ethics & self-responsibility

• Introduction to SEC-specific rituals and tools

• Light supervision & collective feedback processes

🧾 Certificate & Title
Optional Title: Emotional Culture Host (ECH)
✔ Counts as pre-stage for SEC+
✔ Visible recognition of emotional responsibility within the SEC system

🔄 Systemic Classification & Differentiation

✨ Quote for Attitude
“Leadership begins with listening. And hosting is a form of leadership.”

"Teach what transforms – but never without yourself."

🎯 Objectives
SEC+ qualifies multipliers who not only teach, but embody.
They shape organizations emotionally, hold safe spaces, and accompany systemic transformation – without neglecting their own inner work.
They are not “graduates” but carriers of a deep-rooted attitude:
Leadership through connection, presence, and self-reflection.

📚 Core Content

🧱 1. Structural Setup & Methodology

• Develop and teach all SEC core modules

• Design of group formats, retreats & workshop architectures

• Role understanding, workflow structures, space design

🔥 2. Internal Healing Work in the Team

• Burnout prevention & psychological hygiene

• Supervision & collective safety

• Building emergency structures & peer circles

👥 3. Community Design & The Attunement

• Establish long-term cultural formats (retreats, ritual spaces, community hubs)

• Integrate collective reflection and development spaces

• Connect to expanded SEC networks & alumni structures

🎓 4. Train-the-Teacher & Curriculum Work

• Didactics, group facilitation, trauma awareness

• Dealing with projection, group dynamics, shadow work

• Develop own modules, certificates & SEC training formats

🔁 5. Impact & Culture Transfer

• Systemic consulting in organizations

• Cultural anchoring in companies, education & NGOs

• Development of sustainable structures of impact

🔄 Feedback Obligation: Reflection as System Element
SEC+ is not a teaching authority – it is a constantly reflecting organism.
Carriers of SEC+ commit to regular feedback loops with themselves, peers, and the culture.

💡 Mandatory Reflection Formats

• Annual re-attunement (supervision + group reflection)

• Peer consulting in tandem or team

• Participation in SEC+ meta circle (e.g. 1x/quarter)

• Meta logbook: personal reflection journal

• Observation & learning in unfamiliar settings

📜 The SEC+ Codex (Self-Commitment)
"I acknowledge that any leadership aimed at transformation must begin with myself.
I vow not to end my own emotional work while accompanying others.
I commit to feedback, humility, and the care of my integrity –
knowing that I will never be a finished human being.
Leadership is not a position. It is a promise I renew each day."