OUR TRAINERS

DOREA trainers are very experienced life skills accredited trainers and we are proud in offering the best possible quality professional training to our participants. DOREA staff consists of certified NLP Trainers, NLP Coaching Master Practitioners, Enneagram Master Practitioners, Certificated Global Career Development Facilitators, Certified Management Consultants and Certified Project Managers among others.

Would like to join our team? Click here.

  • Helen Callanan
    Helen Callanan
    Trainer
Helen Callanan
Trainer

Helen works as a freelance educational consultant and has worked on diverse educational projects in English language teaching, linguistics, institutional mapping, training, curriculum and materials development, social inclusion and education in emergencies.

She has gained experience in institutional mapping and curriculum design as a senior trainer, senior training needs assessor, vocational English language course designer and short-term expert on the Trade Enhancement Project in the Arab Republic of Syria and as lead consultant with UNICEF Rwanda.

She is experienced in delivering English language training within capacity building projects, vocational, and institutional training, curriculum mapping and design, materials development together with experience of English language training needs assessment, course design and assessment from EU and UN projects in various countries. She has knowledge of the relevant international standards in the field, and those set by the Council of Europe.

Her portfolio of clients include projects funded by European Union’s European Regional Development Fund( where she worked as a senior cross cultural trainer and social inclusion expert) British Council Cyprus, (where she worked as team leader for the EU University Scholarship assessment project) British Council Algeria,( where she worked as senior teacher trainer with school inspectors, trainers and teachers) Garnet Education UK Limited,( where she worked as a senior teacher trainer in Iraq and Lebanon) , Marine Society of Sea Cadets( where she worked as a consultant drafting tender documents for English at Sea tenders)

She has significant experience working in Irish and UK universities researching & delivering English Academic literacy skills and English for Academic Purposes courses to international university students and delivery of English for Specific courses with examiner and assessment experience of international students at tertiary level. She is a senior International Baccalaureate diploma examiner and in addition has co-authored Absolute Legal English published by DELTA Publishing designed to facilitate improvement of linguistic capabilities of legal professionals operating in English.

She has more than 10 years delivering English language face to face teacher training for trainees to acquire the EDI Cert.TEFL qualification. She is familiar with English language vocational training needs assessment and English language capacity building alignment of programmes with public authorities and vocational requirements of individual departments.

  • Eleni Baltatzi
    Eleni Baltatzi
    Trainer
Eleni Baltatzi
Trainer

Eleni delivers training courses for personal development, business and soft skills to organizations around Europe. Through her long experience with NGOs, which goes back to 2004, she developed her interests in non-formal education, creativity, storytelling, applied improvisation and ecotherapy. Having worked for an NGO that helped refugee children, she has acquired insight of the critical issues and developments in this area and committed herself to offering her expertise in this cause.

Over the past years, she has trained children, students, volunteers, young adults, NGO staff , entrepreneurs and business executives from different countries with various cultural backgrounds.

Eleni has a university degree in Business Administration and a MSc. in Business Education. She believes that in order to achieve inner peace you need to balance your body, soul and mind. You can find her hiking, sailing, snorkeling, on the dance floor and anywhere she can spend a good time with friends.

  • Paul Rogers
    Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers qualified as a teacher in the early 1970s and taught in the UK state system for ten years.  He has been based overseas since the early 1980s, working with schools, universities, military training colleges and vocational training providers, in both the public and private sectors.

He took a Master of Science degree in the mid-1980s, a US Doctorate in the early 90s and has presented at various international conferences. Subjects covered included second language acquisition, online & blended learning, testing & evaluation, teacher training and educational leadership & management. Paul is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and more recently, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He has worked for Aston, Leeds and Southampton Universities in the UK, as well as the RAND Corporation in the USA as Programme Manager for Teacher Training in the Middle East.  He has been employed by British Aerospace, the Centre for British Teachers and for the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Cyprus, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He was the founding Principal of a secondary school in Cyprus and of Qatar Skills Academy, a vocational college in Doha, the capital of the Gulf state of Qatar.  He was appointed Headmaster of KYUEM, Malaysia’s premium A-Level College, in August 2013. During his five years of leadership, the college has continued to improve on its annual A-level results and in 2016 recorded the highest number of Oxford and Cambridge places in its 20-year history.

Paul is married to Eleni, a retired teacher and counsellor, and lives in Limassol, Cyprus. He enjoys reading, most aspects of IT, cricket, listening to all kinds of music, theatre, cinema and watching good TV.

  • Ivan Kobelev
    Ivan Kobelev
    Trainer
Ivan Kobelev
Trainer

Originally from Russia, based in the Czech Republic but living all around Europe, including Spain and Austria. Makes sense, Ivan is based in Erasmus Student Network (an organisation promoting mobility on principle students-helping-students). He has deep understanding and 6 years experience in volunteers management, youth work and intercultural learning. With a background in Chemical engineering (BA) and Economy and management (MA), Ivan has collected diverse work experience ranging from public institutions, through corporate giant Microsoft, to a cosy and innovative social start-up incubator. Nowadays he’s a freelance trainer, facilitator and host. For over 3 years he has been designing and delivering trainings, connecting individuals and reinforcing teams, hosting conversations in forums and meetings. His expertise is in servant leadership, personal and team development, communication, conflicts, intercultural learning, peace education. In his work, he believes in approach that is participatory, creative and holistic. Ivan is also qualified and involved in ESN Pool of Facilitators, UNOY Peacebuilders, Olde Vechte and Synergy network.

  • Xenia Koutentaki
    Xenia Koutentaki
Xenia Koutentaki

Xenia Koutentaki, is an adult educator specialized in non formal participatory learning approaches. She has been active in the youth and international voluntary movement since 1996. She has lived and worked in different countries all over the world  i.e Italy, France, Germany, Serbia, Japan, Vietnam, Senegal, Iraq. Through these experiences she has developed her capacities of working efficiently with international and multicultural teams.  She has a vast experience in developing long term education content for courses in a variety of topics. Topics include Human Rights Education, women empowerment and representation in the trade unions, intercultural competences of police and civil servants, training for trainers and facilitators for refugee children and youth, youth development, Sustainability,  Networking and Gender Equality. She has worked with various local, national and international institutions and NGOs such as UNV, UN Summer Academy, Alliance of the European Voluntary Service Organisations, Ship for World Youth AA, National Workers’ Confederation of Greece, Hellenic Adult Education Association.

She lives up to the meaning of her name, “the one who protects and takes care of the foreigners”  and she believes that offering people a caring environment and experience is a major facilitating factor of any learning process.

 

  • Neophytos Mitsigkas
    Neophytos Mitsigkas
    Trainer
Neophytos Mitsigkas
Trainer

Neophytos is an early-career academic, researcher, teacher trainer, and English language teacher. He has a BA in English Language and Literature, an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), and he is currently finishing his PhD in English language teaching (Using Literature for Integrated Language and Culture Teaching and Learning).

Neophytos has worked both in secondary as well as in tertiary education, focusing on how to equip prospective teachers with the knowledge, methods, techniques and skills they require in order to perform their tasks effectively in the classroom. Until recently, he was a teacher and researcher at the University of Essex, where he designed and delivered lectures to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and participated in research projects. He is specifically interested in the use of literature in the language classroom and the development of materials for its immediate use with the learners.

His work has focused on the use of novels for developing the students’ language awareness, promoting their catalytic role in developing intercultural awareness. He is also interested in intercultural communication, particularly in identity and othering, looking at how to negotiate our feelings of culture and our own discourses in communication, and dealing with the aspects that may result in interference to communication.

In his free time, he loves reading books, writing, experiencing nature, and spending time with his family. He is also passionate about exercise.

  • Damian Vavanos
    Damian Vavanos
    Trainer
Damian Vavanos
Trainer

Damian is a passionate social entrepreneur with a background in Marketing and Operations. What drives him forward is personal growth and the journey towards self-actualization. The key thing is that he loves building relationships and establish partnerships no matter the industry. It’s all about the people and sharing the love.

He is a serial social entrepreneur which means that he just loves launching social businesses and solving problems. His biggest accomplishment is launching Social Hackers Academy an NGO that trains refugees in software engineering. His efforts lead to creating Migracode a pan-European consortium of NGOs which supports refugees with social integration.

He is a passionate trainer, consultant and avid blogger and pod caster and on his spare time he is travelling on a motorcycle and meets random people.

  • Ilona Olehlova
    Ilona Olehlova
    Trainer
Ilona Olehlova
Trainer

Ilona (BA in Media Studies and Journalism, MA in Political Science) is obsessed with education in its various forms. She works with various groups including young people coming from challenging backgrounds with aim to enable them to become active actors in the decision-making processes in their local communities as with adults willing to develop especially their intercultural and creative competencies. For several years she is being actively involved in NGO sphere working with various organizations all around Europe and tackling range of topics and issues. In her work as trainer she tries to create open space where people feel comfortable to share, discuss and support each other in the learning process. If you ask her for her passion the answer would be creative writing as a process where the only two things that you need to start the adventure are pen and piece of paper.

  • Argyris Papadopoulos
    Argyris Papadopoulos
    Trainer
Argyris Papadopoulos
Trainer

Argyris (MA Gender Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece) is a trainer of non-formal education and online tutor of Greek as a foreign language. He has been active in the educational sector since 2008, having worked in both the public (Serbia, Romania) and private sector (Greece, Lithuania, USA), delivering workshops, seminars and training courses, teaching languages, creating educational tools and content, training educators and providing them new tools, and guiding administrative staff through new routes of management.

For Argyris, education is a right for all humans, thus everyone who works in the educational sector, needs to be strong and confident enough to offer high quality services to all kinds of learners. To this direction, he does his best to provide new tools and methods, but mostly to empower educators and administrative personnel, so that they themselves can generate solutions for the learners’ needs.

  • Anna Lodeserto
    Anna Lodeserto
    Trainer
Anna Lodeserto
Trainer

Anna Lodeserto is an experienced trainer, project manager, policy expert, and professional facilitator with a special interest and expertise in the social inclusion of migrants and marginalised groups (especially young people in NEET situations), multiculturalism, and new technologies.

She is currently providing training, coaching and project managing expert advice to NGOs, local authorities, university and public/private schools on the EU programmes “Erasmus+” and “Europe for Citizens” for the period 2014-2020 focusing on the design and implementation of training opportunities for young people and migrants, especially disadvantaged youth, the involvement of civil society in European policy-making and the democratic civic engagement of the general public in the processes of European integration specifically targeting voluntary sector organisations, youth workers, school leaders and teachers. She is also serving as External Expert for the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission – DG EAC and as Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe (EPALE) Ambassador for the Italian Erasmus+ National Agency, after having ideated, coordinated and managed several transnational projects since 2009.

Over the past ten years, she intensively worked on social cohesion, intercultural dialogue, global active citizenship, the defence of migrants’ rights and the free movement of citizens being involved in a number of grassroots initiatives focused on citizen participation as well as institutional processes interacting at the transnational level. She has worked with policy dialogue, social justice, cross-border cooperation and capacity development tools and programmes since the mid-2000s serving as an expert for European networks, NGOs, universities and international organisations and working at the intersection of education, media and policy.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Peacekeeping and Security Studies, and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and Diplomacy, with a specialisation in Development Politics. She also studied International Political Economy, Development Cooperation and Project Management at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Cantabria in Northern Spain and holds a “Planning and Management of European Funded Projects” certification issued by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), part of the City and Guilds Group of London Institute.

She has also attended, promoted and organised several formal and non-formal education activities as it relates to international youth work, project management, citizenship education and Euro-Mediterranean dialogue. She has leadership experience in a number of transnational organisations and has academic background and professional experience of education programmes and dialogue initiatives between European universities and their partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

  • Jordi Gil Vernet
    Jordi Gil Vernet
    Trainer
Jordi Gil Vernet
Trainer

Jordi Gil Vernet (Graduate in Philosophy and Sciences of Education of University of Barcelona, UB; Honorary Collaborator at University of Malaga) is a former teacher of Philosophy who decided to leave secondary school for training professionals as a freelance four years ago. He has been teaching for over twenty-five years. Currently, his trainees are mainly managers and highly qualified professionals, especially physicians and health professionals as well as engineers.

The courses and workshops that he teaches —to undergraduates and postgraduates students, and professionals too— can be grouped under two headings: “Social and managing skills” (for instance communication, public speaking, leadership, etc.) and “Humanistic thinking for professionals”. In this field, he runs courses such as ‘Methodology and Philosophy of Science’, ‘Professional Ethics (or Professional Deontology)’, ‘Some Reflections on Technique’, ‘Philosophy of Mind’, etc.

In recognition of his professional performance, he was named ‘Honorary Collaborator’ of the University of Malaga in 2015. Since then, he teaches in there as an external expert in several masters and seminars.

He loves reading, writing, and playing sport - especially running and swimming - in his leisure time.

  • Valentina Locatelli
    Valentina Locatelli
    Trainer
Valentina Locatelli
Trainer

Valentina just graduated in International Relations and EU Institutions at University of Milan and is active in the non-profit field in Italy (Oxfam Italia, Cesvi NGO) and in the Erasmus+ Programme in Europe since 2014.

In 2015, after taking part in an EVS project in Gaziantep, Turkey, she decided to become a Trainer and started getting more and more involved in Erasmus+ KA1 projects.

She is interested in Human Rights Education, Intercultural learning, Gender-based Issues and Social Inclusion.

She strongly believes that positive change is a bottom-up process and that working hard in improving the world we live in should be everyone's mission.

Valentina is now living in Barcelona: she loves discovering new places, travelling slow and connecting with locals. She enjoys reading, taking photographs and writing, she is a Guest Blogger for Peace Child International.

  • Erik Van Lennep
    Erik Van Lennep
    Trainer
Erik Van Lennep
Trainer

Erik is a serial social entrepreneur (basically, he can’t stop thinking about how to improve people’s lives and society, and how to repair the planet). He has worked in the building of projects, organisations, and world movements. He is a co-founder of Ireland’s national training centre for sustainability, “Cultivate”, where he designed, facilitated and delivered a diverse menu of trainings between 2000 and 2007. Trainings were provided for individuals seeking to mesh their heart with their hands: ways to live more of their own values. Others were focused on groups, organisations, companies and both the Dublin city council and the national government. Erik’s work with youth began in his own youth in the USA, where he taught ecological restoration and permaculture gardening. In Dublin, Erik produced two youth projects, “Strength in Diversity” a six month project for young people whose groups were stereotyped and marginalized by Irish society; and “Cultivate Community”, a street festival attracting 20,000 people and featuring a large temporary skate park and dedicated youth culture zone. In 2012, Erik and two colleagues rented a tall ship on the Baltic Sea and took 28 people for a week of transformational workshops for change-makers, “Youth and Elders”. Erik is known for his insightful and intuitive coaching on communication, sustainable branding and social innovation startups. He brings a design background and systems thinking to his work, along with a deep history of intercultural work. Key to all of Erik’s work facilitating learning is a focus on each individual and their particular learning style and needs, while building skills for communication, inclusiveness, collaboration and teamwork.

  • Panagiotis Mamouzakis
    Panagiotis Mamouzakis
    Trainer
Panagiotis Mamouzakis
Trainer

Panagiotis (BSc Politics and history, Panteion University of Athens) is an experienced Trainer and Youth Worker born in 1981 in Athens, Greece. He started working as a Scout leader for teenagers 16 years ago. Throughout the years he developed his trainer’s skills and competencies by enhancing several training methods and approaches such as Coaching, NLP, Systemic work, Non-violent communication, DISC profiles, Self-organised learning systems and others. He lived and worked in the Netherlands for 3 years where he received further training by the innovative training centre named Olde Vechte Foundation.

Nowadays he works as a freelance trainer & coach and he is delivering trainings and workshops throughout Europe for training and non-profit organisations

  • Tharwat Jaber
    Tharwat Jaber
    Trainer
Tharwat Jaber
Trainer

Tharwat Jaber, holding MBA and CBA from Vancouver Canada. currently PhD laureate researching “Smart Specialisation Methods”.

Mrs. Jaber has more than 15 years of international work experience in business and nonprofits organisations in several disciplines, in Switzerland, Canada, Cyprus and Jordan. In her roles, she managed and developed strategies for several organisations.  She is recognised as a vivid trainer in the fields of the Project Management, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration.

Mrs. Jaber career path took her across a magnitude of industries and countries including Consulting, Banking, Training, Humanitarian, Health, and TV networks. In her latest position Mrs. Jaber was the Executive Director of Business and Professional Women- Jordan Branch (BPWA), before that she was the Country Manager of AZ-International /Jordan Branch specialised in Consultation and Training. Mrs Jaber was the Assistant Manager for the CEO of Amman Stock Exchange.  At UNHCR she was responsible for helping refugees to resettle through direct interaction with US, Canada, UK, Sweden, Finland and Australian authorises.  She was exposed to several departments during her position at Housing & Finance Bank and was part of the Orbit-Showtime Broadcasting network billing department based in Cyprus. As a part of her PhD research, Mrs. Jaber is involved in academic and consultancy work in the area of innovation policies in Europe, she is currently working at EFIS Centre (European Future Innovation System) Brussels-Belgium, doing analysis on smart specialisation strategies.

Mrs. Jaber’s experience also reflects her strong engagement in the areas of social responsibility and voluntary work, she serves in many youth and women initiatives and task forces, she is highly articulate, confident and a persuasive team-builder, able to motivate and communicate knowledge to achieve exceptional business performance.

 

  • Dóra Deák
    Dóra Deák
    Trainer
Dóra Deák
Trainer

Dóra Deák has studied Adult Education in Hungary and started her Master in Educational Research in Sweden, which she interrupted when she discovered the great gap between the academic sector and the application of knowledge in real life. This experience gave her inspiration to establish her own organisation ‘FORME’ (based in Palermo, Italy) which aims to bring theory closer to practice in the educational field, promoting non-formal education as a complementary methodology to formal education.

Since 2012 she works as a trainer with international groups at local, European and international level – her focus is on emotional intelligence, on tackling youth unemployment through the promotion of collaboration between the academic and business sector, and on social inclusion of vulnerable groups (including refugees). Since 2015 she is an external evaluation expert of Erasmus+ Youth projects at the Hungarian National Agency.

She believes that collaboration and sharing of knowledge, resources and ideas can create the changes we are looking for – this is why in her trainings she utilises a horizontal approach where everybody can contribute and can release their potential.

  • Sonja Velic
    Sonja Velic
    Trainer
Sonja Velic
Trainer

Sonja is a psychologist, coach, facilitator and a trainer. She holds a BA in Psychology and has extensive professional experience working with people with fewer opportunities in both educational and social care institutions. Since 2009 she is actively involved in the field of youth/community work, adult education and international trainings on many levels- as a mentor, facilitator, coordinator and trainer.

In 2013 she founded NGO "Synergy Source Serbia" to support personal development of people in her hometown Subotica, Serbia, who are experiencing fewer opportunities due to long term unemployment.

For the last 19 months Sonja was working full-time with homeless people in Ireland supporting them to get back to education and employment as a path out of homelessness. As direct result of her work and devotion 8 service users found work and moved out of homeless services, dozens improved their chances on the job market through successfully completing trainings, classes and gaining life skills and valuable work experience. Through this work Sonja gained the ability to design and offer tailored content and activities that can support the learning process of the most demanding learners. She learned how to meet people on the level they are at and accommodate their specific needs and growth.

As a trainer Sonja combines her formal knowledge of Psychology and enriches it with a variety of approaches that go from Transnational Analysis, Psycho-drama, Systemic Work and Family Constellations all the way to NLP, REBT and Synergy Method. She also has a Certificate in Massage Therapy and strongly acknowledges the impact physiology has on learning. In her training design Sonja enhances her academic style of teaching with experiential and embodied leaning processes. Her expertise is Emotional Intelligence, Well-being and Burn Out Prevention, Team Building, Personal Effectiveness and Leadership.

As a person Sonja is kind and authentic. She enjoy spending time in yoga, meditation, reading self-development books, learning from inspiring people , watching TED talks, organising workshops or attending them or just sharing some pleasant time with her loved ones. Currently she is a organiser of 2 active Meetup communities in Ireland " The Well-Being Club" and "Practical Strategies" and she finds great joy in leading them.

  • Kirilka Angelova
    Kirilka Angelova
    Trainer
Kirilka Angelova
Trainer

Mrs. Kirilka Angelova has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Business Administration, Master’s Degree in Leadership and Management at the New Bulgarian University.  She is a group dynamic Trainer and Expert in an Assessment Center, Trainer on Entrepreneurship and Human rights with 11 years of experience.

From 2008 she is a chairman of EVENTTEAM, a profit company that is specialized in delivering trainings and developing people’s skills. She has long history of developing people’s skills from different structures, including business and governmental. In her portfolio are organizations like: Unicredit Bulbank, Kempinski hotels, Embassy of South Africa, Renault Nissan Bulgaria, Schneider electric, Balkanstar Auto France 3000, Eurolese Auto, Cvidya, Medihelp International, Nielsen Company,  Ministry of Education, CEZ Group etc.
The topics she has strong expertise are: communication skills, building and developing teams, negotiation, conflict management, personal and professional development, motivation, leadership, organizational development, entrepreneurship and human rights. Kirilka Angelova is also engaged in non-profit sector. She works as a Business volunteer very close with Junior Achievement Bulgaria (JAB), who honored her with the title “Business Volunteer of the Year”. One of her biggest achievement within this organization is that she succeeded to trained primary school teachers from across the country in entrepreneurship. This was recognized as the best educational project in EU in 2012. Mrs. Angelova also is part of a Mentor program under the same organization, and she works closely with high school students, mentoring them.

Currently she is working Friedrich Ebert Bulgaria as trainer in Training for Youth Political Leaders.

  • Luisa Panichi
    Luisa Panichi
    Trainer
Luisa Panichi
Trainer

Luisa is Australian-Italian and has been teaching languages since the age of 12 when she first moved to Italy from Melbourne with her family in the ‘70’s! Luisa holds a BA in Politics, Russian and Spanish from Monash University (AUS), a Laurea Magistrale in Languages and Teaching from the University of Pisa (IT) and a PhD in Modern Languages from the University of Hull (UK). Luisa also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Research Training.

Luisa has worked in the field of university education and adult training for over 25 years and likes to push buttons to see what happens. This has led her to play around with technology and to experiment with different teaching approaches. In 2000, Luisa introduced Tandem language learning within the university where she works.

As part of her academic career, Luisa has published in the fields of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) and E-learning, Language Awareness and Learner Advising. Luisa’s PhD explores language-learner participation in virtual worlds and makes use of Exploratory Practice and Reflexivity as its two main research approaches.

Luisa has held leadership, development and management roles in two EU funded projects on the use of virtual worlds and reality in education. Luisa is also a translator and works as a freelance language consultant. Luisa is the co-author of a text-book on English in Economics and Business and has of late developed an interest in Italian Corporate Governance issues.

Luisa has recently taken up singing lessons to help her voice and inner self re-emerge after 5 years of asceticism while working on her PhD in the remote sunny hills of Tuscany. On Sundays Luisa loves to curl up on the sofa with her Sicilian rescue dog and catch up on sleep!

  • Marko Gazivoda
    Marko Gazivoda
    Trainer
Marko Gazivoda
Trainer

Marko is a proactive educator, critical thinker and reflective learner with 15 years’ experience in training design and implementation. His professional and educational background is in “Developmental youth work in conflict-affected areas” with rich work experience at Balkan area, Turkey and Cyprus.

Marko has extensive experience in designing and managing of 27 different learning and development projects funded by various donors including Erasmus +, USAID, EEA Financial Mechanism, SIDA and EU Commission.

Marko is creative, curious and aiming for innovations. Always ready for networking.  He is a patient listener, positive, flexible and entertaining communicator. His biggest passion is sport especially swimming and running. Social entrepreneur to be.

  • Mindaugas Grajauskas
    Mindaugas Grajauskas
    Trainer
Mindaugas Grajauskas
Trainer

Mindaugas has a master’s degree in Philosophy of Media and a Bachelor in engineering at Kaunas university of technology.  For the last 5 years, Mindaugas was working as a business consultant and trainer. He is certified POINTS OF YOU™ trainer and professional coach. Mindaugas has completed “Leadership and Motivation” courses (Vytautas Magnus university, 2008), studied ”Outdoor education” methodology (Poland, 2012), completed “Leadership” training program (Poland, 2012), has finished the course “Creating and developing e-learning trainings” at Synergy Action organization (Greece, 2015). Mindaugas specializes in the personal development, time management, project management, gamification, teamwork, personal finance management and investing topics.

At the moment Mindaugas is living in Brussels, Belgium. Mindaugas is practising chess, likes long-distance running. He likes collecting books and is creating a personal library.

  • Elena Demetriou
    Elena Demetriou
    Trainer
Elena Demetriou
Trainer

Elena Demetriou has studied English Language and Literature and she currently works as an English teacher for the last 4 years. She is greatly interested in photography, volunteerism, Erasmus+ and active youth participation. Her first experience in the fascinating world of volunteerism began in 2011 when she had conducted English workshops to Polish adults as part of her internship in Poland through the international student organisation AIESEC. Since then, she has been participating in a variety of training courses and youth exchanges and she has been supporting non-formal learning through her professional space and through collaboration with various NGOs around Cyprus. She is part of the Youth Ambassadors team of the Cyprus Youth Council responsible for enhancing the promotion of the European Structured Dialogue at a local level.

  • Gheorghe Petrus
    Gheorghe Petrus
    Trainer
Gheorghe Petrus
Trainer

Gheorghe has a strong communicational background (BA in journalism in Romania and an AP program related to Multimedia, Design and Communication in Denmark) and is passionate about personal development using storytelling as a method for developing emotional intelligence. With a large experience in the field of training courses and project writing, he got involved in the field of youth work more than 5 years ago. While studying in Denmark, he put the bases of an NGO dealing with discrimination and no hate speech and currently he is involved in developing European projects in several NGO’s. He has a strong belief that there is a seed in every person, a seed that needs to be nurtured in order to develop both personal and professional skills and that learning is an ongoing process throughout our entire life. His motto is: “everything you do, do it from the heart” and his been following it for the last years.

  • Crystal – Jade Lerios
    Crystal – Jade Lerios
    Trainer
Crystal – Jade Lerios
Trainer
Crystal-Jade Lerios (Accredited VET, MSc, BSc) is a Learning and Education Consultant. Her work portfolio includes teacher training, teaching Mathematics, consulting for schools and creating learning packages for schools and other organizations.

Some of her most important years were spent at Ministry of Education’s summer camp in Cyprus, taking care of primary school children. There she made a realization early on that it really does take a village to raise a child as she saw in practice how crucial the multifaceted input that was derived from the teamwork of teachers, cleaners, cooks and other staff members from all walks of life, was to uplifting and caring for those children. This lead to her to follow and seek an academic path that acknowledged the importance of taking a multidisciplinary and holistic approach when tackling problem solving in a manner  that has  long lasting and effective benefits.

 

 

  • Katka Martínková
    Katka Martínková
    Trainer
Katka Martínková
Trainer

Katka is a personal development trainer and facilitator. She has been working with individuals, groups, teams and communities for many years, becoming active in the field of international trainings in 2013. Since then she has been facilitating and delivering trainings and workshops on personal development, communication, coaching, creativity and entrepreneurship. She is one of the founders of Brno Connected, a Czech NGO that creates opportunities for young people´s education and development.

In her work, she uses the methods of non-formal education and experiential learning, involving elements of coaching, non-violent communication, systemic work, NLP, drama and role plays and body movement.

Her aim is to create space for growth, space where people get to explore themselves within a new context and in a playful way. She believes that every human being has a unique potential and she is dedicated to supporting people in challenging their habitual patterns, taking adventurous steps towards their dreams and reaching fulfilment and satisfaction in their lives.

Apart from trainings, she enjoys walks in nature, meaningful conversations with friends and good coffee, food and books.

  • Monica Potsou
    Monica Potsou
    Trainer
Monica Potsou
Trainer

Monica Potsou currently holds the position of the Head of the HR Department of a Financial Services Company in Limassol, Cyprus.

Monica has an extensive experience of 10+ years in HR and Operational Managerial roles in different industries, including an International Experience in an Oil & Gas Services Company headquarter in Norway.

She holds a BA in Economics (Business Economics and Finance) from the Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) and a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management from Middlesex University Business School London (UK). She is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a Graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD London) as well as a holder of a Professional Higher Diploma in Business Administration.

Monica is also an active member of different non-profit organisations including the Cyprus Human Resource Management Association (CyHRMA) and has also executed several trainings on soft skills (i.e. Stress Management, Time Management, Interview Skills, etc). She is also a Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner (NLP).

  • Chrisie Sea
    Chrisie Sea
    Trainer
Chrisie Sea
Trainer

Chrisie Sea has completed Bsc Computer Science and now she is completing Masters of Business Administration ( MBA) at University of Cyprus. Since 2012 she teaches Computer Science at Fidelity Institute to High School Students, preparing them for exams and helping them develop critical thinking, coding and problem solving techniques. She has 5 years of Administrative and Volunteer experience in nonprofit sector gained through Erasmus+ projects & trainings, Youth Exchanges and being active members of several NGO’s. She believes an open mind, traveling and continues learning are the key factors for a successful career and personal development. She loves exercising, reading books and spending time with like minded people. Chrisie provides Entrepreneurship, Teamwork, Emotional Intelligence and Strategic thinking Trainings at Dorea Institute.

  • Panayiotis Proestos
    Panayiotis Proestos
Panayiotis Proestos

Panayiotis Proestos was born in Dubai and he lives and work in Cyprus. He got his psychology BS’s at the St. Kliment Ohridki, Sofia University and continued with psychoanalytical and later integrative psychotherapy studies. He works privately in Nicosia and Limassol, has clinical experience in the public sector of Cyprus and Greece, worked with psychotherapeutic issues of people with disabilities, coordinated and participated EU funded projects on socially vulnerable groups. Panayiotis trained small and large groups of individuals on various subjects around psychology and also provides one-on-one consultation and training. Previously, he served his community as president and member at Cyprus Red Cross for migrants and psychosocial support committees and currently as vice-president at the Pancyprian Association of Psychologists.  

He believes in humans and their abilities, his mind is full of questions, enjoys exercise in and out of the water and adores the sea and conscious living.

  • Heloisa  Villalva  Toledo
    Heloisa Villalva Toledo
Heloisa Villalva Toledo

Heloisa studies different methodologies and best school practices around the world. As a teacher, she focuses on the real development of the students, socially and academically. She developed her interests in non-traditional education, creativity, storytelling, and design thinking.

Heloisa  believes that every child is capable of learning if motivated, in a good environment and with the correct tools provided. She also believes in a more empathetic world, where education is truly transforming. You can find her reading, watching her son’s tennis games or spending some good time with friends and family.

  • Andreas Gavrielides
    Andreas Gavrielides
    Trainer
Andreas Gavrielides
Trainer

Andreas (PhD in Materials Science, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse) is at the moment an independent researcher working on various projects as an external advisor. Born in Nicosia in 1988, he is passionate about self-development and has from an early age tutored people in various stages of his life. This passion to transmit knowledge to different groups of people with different needs and characteristics has evolved by studying applying new interactive in combination with traditional methods to accomplish his goal.

He was the president for two years of a student group with over 50 members during his time as a student in the school of chemical engineering in the National Technical University of Athens bringing the group first in the student elections during these two years plus 1 more as an active member. During his PhD thesis, he was the sole representative of all the PhD students in his lab to the directorial board for 3 years.

Andreas believes that transmission of information and the learning curve for any subject can always be accelerated by modernizing our methods and applying various psychological and behavioural tactics suited for any group of people. He is also one of the founders of AA Transformations, a recently created team that gives personal development courses in Cyprus with plans for expansion globally later on.

  • Yuki Fragariani
    Yuki Fragariani
    Trainer
Yuki Fragariani
Trainer

Yuki has been a language trainer for many years. She first received a TEFL training and certification in her native country Indonesia in 1992, when she was a student of Japanese Studies at Padjadjaran University.  Yuki worked as an English teacher at various branches of Yayasan LIA, a leading English Language Institution in Indonesia. She also worked at Institut Musik Daya Indonesia as an English lecturer. In Japan, during her further studies of Japanese Language, she worked at two English schools in Shizuoka: Small World and Kids Station. Upon returning to Indonesia she worked in various industries, but at the same time never left the training world – she carried on being involved in different aspects of language training – teaching, tutor training and developing materials. She is also a translator and interpreter; among her clients are NHK, ABC, UNICEF, the British Embassy in Indonesia. Yuki has lived in Australia and Japan, and for the last 8 years, she has been living in Ireland. In Ireland, she carried out Japanese Classes at Fingal County Council Library and private English classes to help children who just migrated to Ireland settle in their new school and environment. Yuki has just completed a training to become a tutor for Adult Literacy and will soon work as a volunteer at Meath and Louth Education and Training Board.

 

  • Afrodita Kermichieva Panovska
    Afrodita Kermichieva Panovska
    Trainer
Afrodita Kermichieva Panovska
Trainer

Afrodita (MBA from HULT International Business School in London, UK and BA in German Philology) has worked as HR Manager, Consultant and Trainer with private and governmental organisations for over 14 years.  During her career, she developed training programs for international development projects and Business Start-up Centers in SEE region. Furthermore, she was advising corporate clients in talent management and development. She is Certified Management Consultant CMC and Global Career Development Facilitator GCDF. During her studies, she was a member of the student organisation AIESEC and now she is a member of the Alumni organisation Germany. Her passion is travelling and learning new cultures together with her family. In free time she likes to play tennis and swim.

  • Katerina Kimovska Gerovska
    Katerina Kimovska Gerovska
    Trainer
Katerina Kimovska Gerovska
Trainer

Katerina (BA in Economics, International economics and business) is working as a trainer/facilitator with special expertise in the fields of employability and skills development, entrepreneurship, career management and personal & organisational development. Besides this, she works as a Career Consultant, and she is certified Global Career Development Facilitator ™. During a training, the most magical moment for her comes when she is challenged to contribute to creating an absolutely enjoyable yet challenging learning environment. During the past 7 years, Katerina has been involved in non-profit sector through variety positions from organisation and administration through facilitating diverse management positions and roles to delivering soft skills workshops and trainings. She’s passionate about helping and empowering people in discovering and developing their own potential. Our bookworm loves to travel and explore different cultures.

  • Lukas Brunbauer
    Lukas Brunbauer
    Trainer
Lukas Brunbauer
Trainer

Lukas is passionately dedicated to the personal and professional development of his clients in Austria and abroad. His educational background resides in the field of psychotherapy (Gestalt and Person Centred Approach) and coaching. He completed his professional training in Mexico where he lived, studied and worked as a therapist and English teacher for over 6 years. Returning to Austria together with his young family in 2007, at first he continued his professional career in the technical area as project manager and product developer. Soon however, he reengaged with his core element: empowering people and promoting personal growth and development. He freelanced and in adult education and applied outdoor-pedagogy. He was partly designing training programmes and partly performing them nationally and all over Europe. His working areas presently cover coaching, professional orientation and career development, team-building and team-performance trainings with individuals, companies and educational organisations. Just recently Lukas has launched a local social entrepreneurship project in his home town which aims at the promotion of handycraft-skills and social competence.

  • Helena Kosková
    Helena Kosková
    Trainer
Helena Kosková
Trainer

Helena has 14 years of experience as a free-lance trainer focused on personal and organisational/community development and long term programmes of non-formal education. She is involved in international Youth in Action/Erasmus+ programmes and runs own educational organisation Natural Spirit (www.naturalspirit.cz), which is focused on meaningful education in harmony with inner and outer nature. She works with individuals and groups also as a psychotherapist using Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor. Her third working focus and passion is gardening.

  • Olga Kiriakidou
    Olga Kiriakidou
    Trainer
Olga Kiriakidou
Trainer

Olga is an experienced trainer and youth worker based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since she was a teenager she was active in non-formal education methods as a member of a Greek scout team, with which took part in European projects.

She studied photography but at the same period was working in summer camps for children and people with disabilities, where with friends she realised that not children have the same opportunities in entertainment. In 2003 with other active young people established the NGO "Kids In Action" and since then organizes performances with clowns, jugglers, stilts, and acrobats for children with less opportunities, economical problems or disadvantaged geographical background and being actively involved in European Youth Mobility Programs/activities.

Since 2009 she is delivering as a free lance trainer, seminars, training courses, contact making events for youth workers, educators, teachers based in non formal education methodology and tools.

In 2012 she becomes member of the Greek (Hellenic) National Pool Of Trainers in Youth in Action Programme and the same year she becomes member of the steering committee of "Thessaloniki 2014- European Youth Capital" where after the successful nomination she takes responsibility for Action Planning and Coordination of events.

In 2015 she is becoming active in Social entrepreneurship, while she is establishing the Social Cooperative company "KIRKO" promoting circus skills as a pedagogic tool.

Throughout the years of experience and her unstoppable willing to learn and explore, she developed her trainer's skills and competencies and she can deliver any topic based on non formal methodology, having preference in: Personal development, Outdoor education, Leaning styles, Mentoring and coaching, Group leadership, Diversity and tolerance, Project management and Erasmus+ programme.

Moreover she is youth consultant and EVS Coordinator and mentor, a volunteer youth worker, she published a fairy tale with the title "Once upon time in a magical forest", she organises youth events and festivals and continues working in the summer camp for people with disabilities.

She strongly believes that "If you can't laugh at yourself then you are missing the biggest joke of your life" and she tries to implement it in her life as well as her work.

  • Linda Bennett
    Linda Bennett
    Trainer
Linda Bennett
Trainer

Linda has over 20 years of experience in the field of Management Training. She was responsible for training managers in several UK national retailers, writing and presenting various courses including recruitment and appraisal interviewing, team management, train the trainer, presentation skills, time management and assertiveness techniques.

While running her own business, she presented similar courses for UK national companies, while also being a part time lecturer in a further educational establishment.

Linda loves finding the potential in all her candidates and believes that everyone should have the opportunity to develop lifelong skills, regardless of academic qualifications.

She has two sons and a daughter and four grandchildren. Living for the last 14 years in Cyprus, Linda loves traveling, having new experiences and meeting new people. She is particularly interested in ancient sites. Her hobbies include walking, international cuisine and crafts. She plays the piano, but not as well as she would like!

 

  • Malwina Janik
    Malwina Janik
    Trainer
Malwina Janik
Trainer

Malwina (MA Work and Organization Psychology, MA studies of Social Communication, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland) is a psychologist and soft-skills trainer. She gained her professional experience while cooperating with various youth organizations and leading training companies in Poland.  Since 2010 she delivers workshops and seminars for both private and public sector, aimed at developing interpersonal skills, especially in the context of management and customer service. She is an expert in interpersonal communication, conflict management, assertiveness, teambuilding as well as creativity trainings.

Malwina believes that we can always make room for improvement. She lives up to this idea, constantly developing herself and encouraging people she works with to do the same. She is also actively involved in production and management of cultural projects - artistic events, festivals and short films as well as theatre spectacles.

  • Ana Mihaljević
    Ana Mihaljević
    Trainer
Ana Mihaljević
Trainer

Ana has a background in Political science and European studies from University College London, Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the University of Zagreb. During her studies, she worked as an assistant at Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and the SALTO South East Europe Resource Centre in Ljubljana.

Ana has extensive experience in project management, EU funds and programs and bridging the gap between education and entrepreneurship. She is a lecturer in EU funds and Project Management at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management, the only AACSB accredited business school in Croatia.

Ana is curious, adventurous and tries to be an inspiration to her students through inclusion, open-mindedness and positive energy. Her passions are travelling, running and good music.

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from our team.

You have Successfully Subscribed! Don't forget to check our latest courses here: https://dorea.org/erasmuscourses/ DOREA Team. E-mail: info@dorea.org