Rike Wittich, Freiburg

Rike Wittich

Welcome to CommuniCoaching!


INDIVIDUAL COACHING - BUSINESS COACHING - COMMUNICATION SKILLS

My name is Rike Wittich. I live and coach the Trinciple.

My experience has taught me: we all long for, we all need safety, space, and acknowledgment. I impart effective tools for successful communication. Together, we train and deepen your communication skills.

My coaching parallels life in that it is an everchanging process. The focus is on you and your concerns. Being clear, understandable and situation-specific in our collaboration is what matters to me.

 

Testimonials

“Im CommuniCoaching mit Rike Wittich habe ich das Trinzip kennengelernt. Es stellt die grundlegenden Bedürfnisse von Personen innerhalb von Beziehungen dar. Die Berücksichtigung des Trinzips führt zu mehr Tiefe und mehr Verständnis in den verschiedensten Beziehungen - es ist ein hervorragendes Instrument, Kommunikation im beruflichen und privaten Umfeld zu reflektieren und weiter zu entwickeln. Ich habe die Erfahrung gemacht, dass das Trinzip mir insbesondere in schwierigen Verhandlungen hilft, die Bedürfnisse der einzelnen Parteien zu erkennen und zu berücksichtigen. Dies unterstützt die Überwindung kommunikativer Hindernisse und hat so u.a. bereits mehrfach zu einem erfolgreichen Abschluss komplizierter Verhandlungen beigetragen.
Um meine Business English Skills zu verbessern, hatte ich mich zudem für CommuniCoaching auf Englisch entschieden - die Verbindung von englischsprachigem Kommunikationstraining und Coaching ist für mich in meinem internationalen Arbeitsumfeld eine ideale Kombination.”

Jan S., Personalleiter

“Frau Wittich habe ich bei einem Netzwerkertreffen kennen gelernt und mich spontan entschieden, ihr Angebot, CommuniCoaching, in Anspruch zu nehmen.
Was sie mir sehr gut und klar vermittelt, ist ihre Erfahrung in der Kommunikation mit anderen. Sie geht strukturiert und analytisch vor, bringt die Dinge auf den Punkt und stellt die richtigen Fragen.
Genauso wichtig wie ihr Wissen ist mir die innere Haltung, die sie praktiziert: nicht die bloße Vermittlung externer Kommunikationstools, sondern die Arbeit an der eigenen inneren Haltung als Voraussetzung für sinnvolles Kommunizieren steht im Mittelpunkt; es ist ein Arbeiten von innen nach außen. Diese 'Kommunikationsphilosophie' entspricht meiner eigenen und ich bin sicher, dass ich mich schon nach wenigen Sitzungen in meiner Kommunikation verbessert habe. Herzlichen Dank!”

Klaus H., Bereichsleiter Personal

“By working together with Ricky I learned to focus not only on WHAT I want to communicate but also on HOW to do so by training over and over again to focus on safety, space, and acknowledgment, the three elements of the trinciple, when communicating. The latter helps me to develop a better understanding of myself as well as of my discussion partners. That is a perfect base for generating ideas in a team, and it results in more efficient and more pleasant discussions often leading to better results.“

Roland S., Scientist/Project Leader, Pharmaceutical Industry

„Sprühend und bunt, liebevoll, wertschätzend authentisch und wirklich mich meinend.“

Michael B., Konzepte und Senior Consultant im Bereich Kommunikation

“The discussions with Ricky are supporting me in growing personally and professionally. The collaboration with her has changed the way I perceive people and their behaviors in business and not just there. Awareness as the precondition for making sound choices is the central element in Ricky’s coaching approach and it is the lever to meaningful development. Together with the latter and based on this, Ricky introduced the concept of secure base leadership and the trinciple, consisting of safety, space and acknowledgement, amongst others to me. This increased my awareness of my own leadership behaviors and decision making but also helped me reflecting on them and improving them further. Moreover, this is helping me in observing and coaching colleagues on their management and leadership skills. I would like to particularly emphasize that Ricky’s concepts I mentioned strongly support the human value approach I am following and applying.”

Thomas F., HR Director, Medical Devices

My perception and attitude has changed in so many ways since Ricky and I started working together. Through developing awareness by following the trinciple consisting of safety, space, and acknowledgement, I am now able to practice a more compassionate management style and I´m also able to change my perspectives more easily. Through our work together I have realized how important it is to become aware of individual “realities” in order to understand – yet not always accept - my environment.
I have gained many insights in regard to how people (including myself) are wired which makes it a lot easier for me to remain calm during challenging discussions and negotiations.
Ricky, I highly appreciate the open and trustful atmosphere we have in all our sessions.
Thank you so much!

Alexandra B., HR Manager, Diagnostics Industry

´Vom Urteilen zum Staunen', Okt 2018
Um in unserer ehrenamtlichen Tätigkeit mit pflegenden Angehörigen andere Sichtweisen zum Thema 'Urteilen' zu entdecken, haben wir bei Rike Wittich den o.g. Workshop gebucht. Ihr Trinzip hat uns neue Welten eröffnet, ein "Werkzeug", mit dem wir fortan unterwegs sind und das uns zum Staunen ermutigt. Ein Hochgenuss, wie Rike uns als kompetente, wertschätzende und warmherzige Persönlichkeit mitgenommen hat auf die Reise in die Tiefen der Kommunikation. Vielen Dank dafür. Wir freuen uns auf die Fortsetzung.

Waltraud K., Leitung einer Freiwilligeninitiative Pflegebegleitung

Begonnen habe ich bei Rike Wittich mit dem Ziel, meine kommunikativen Fähigkeiten im Englischen zu verbessern. Schon im ersten Telefonat habe ich gemerkt, dass es bei CommuniCoaching um weit mehr geht als darum, Grammatik und Vokabeln zu lernen.
Neben der Vermittlung dieser beiden Dinge als Grundlage und Handwerkszeug einer Sprache geht es v.a. darum, das Verständnis für die Sprache zu wecken und sprach- bzw. landestypische Ausdrucksweisen und Umgangsformen zu verstehen. Außerdem geht es um den persönlichen Anwendungsbereich der Sprache und die damit zusammenhängenden Kommunikationsformen.
Einzigartig und für mich besonders wertvoll ist jedoch die Fähigkeit von Frau Wittich, die persönlichen Themen meines Alltags in den Unterricht zu integrieren, zu besprechen und zu analysieren. Das geschieht in der eigentlich neuen und fremden Sprache, so dass sprachliche und persönliche Weiterentwicklung Hand in Hand gehen.
Das Ergebnis dieser besonderen Arbeit ist, neben der Verbesserung meiner Sprachkenntnisse, die Entwicklung meiner Persönlichkeit und meiner Kommunikationsfähigkeit sowohl im beruflichen wie im privaten Kontext.
Dafür möchte ich mich von Herzen bedanken!

Andrea S., Unternehmerin

 

Secure Base CommuniCoaching

Communication as a Secure Base


„First awareness, then choice.“ If you become aware of the three key elements coining any communication, you can decide how you want to handle them to best serve not only the communication situation but also the bigger picture. That is exactly what we train.

Secure Base: A secure attitude facilitates a secure relationship.

 

Contents of the training

Developing a conscious inner attitude towards oneself and others as the basis for effective, trusting, and productive communication. My coaching shows you ways to actively exercise influence on your attitude at any given moment by training how you relate to a situation. The communication gets more appreciative, safe and rewarding. Having developed inner safety yourself, you can become a secure base for others.

 

Components of my coaching

  • Training the Trinciple
  • Learning about neurophysiologocal processes coining communication
  • Developing a secure base
  • Reflecting critical and challenging situations
  • Developing inner stability by being acknowledged and validated
  • Situational communication training
  • Embedding the techniques in everyday life

 

Benefits of the coaching

  • Expansion of your scope of action
  • Discovery of new, constructive ways of interpreting
  • Broader understanding of communicative challenges
  • Increased communication competency
  • Understanding neurophysiological patterns in communication
  • Training of resilience, poise, safety and self-efficacy

 


The Trinciple


Leitmotiv of my coaching is the trinciple. It is the essence of having worked with people for over 20 years. It is at work in any act of communication. If we consciously train and practice it, it makes space for productive communication:

Through safety, space, and acknowledgment.


 
 
Trinzip, Rike Wittich

 

Who do I work with?

Mostly with leaders, managers, executives interested in developing workplace culture and communication.
With private individuals interested in taking stock, looking for orientation and direction within themselves.

 

Free initial interview

If, after an initial phone interview, we decide to work together, we can do so either via video conference, face to face in your company or else on my premises in Freiburg i.Br. A coaching session usually lasts 120-180min.

Interested? Contact me!

 


Rike Wittich – about me


I am an expert in interpersonal communication. I have studied this field in various contexts and have been teaching and accompanying people for many years, both in English and in German. I have always been intrigued by and pursued the following questions: What effect does communication have? How do our ways of communicating shape reality both for ourselves and others? How can each and every one of us contribute to a humane communication culture? I enjoy exploring and opening up new spaces and realms of experience. Spaces that allow for meaning, freedom and inner and outer flexibility both for oneself and others. I know that the precondition for change and development is the experience of being acknowledged, the experience of safety and the experience of space in human interaction. Only then is it possible to develop awareness and to understand what it really is about: understanding and respecting each other beyond all seeming differences.

I accompany you on your path to strengthening an inner attitude which allows you to communicate and interact in a self-aware, self-confident and self-determined way.

 

Milestones

  • German & American Studies (Major: Intercultural Communication)
  • Somatic Movement Therapy (USA), Motopädie (Germany)
  • Authentic Movement/Mindful Communication (USA)
  • Disseminator Training ´Grateful Living ´ (Austria)
  • Client-centered conversation according to C. Rogers (Germany)
  • Attitude-Centered Coaching (Germany)
  • Since 1999 instructor/lecturer in the USA, the Czech Republic, India, and Germany
  • PELTIS English Language Services, Freiburg, Germany, 2008-2014
  • CommuniCoaching since 2014



Curious? Contact me if you would like to have a choice over and over again - I’m eager to work with you!