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2025 – "Stone Skills". The difference between process-based and expert consulting
Speech at VIII CONFERENCE on Organizational Development in the Gestalt Approach VEGI-INTAGIO-2025 "GROUPS. TEAMS. ORGANIZATIONS"
One can learn a lot from experts in their field. For instance, one could attend a cooking master class given by a chef at the city's best restaurant… But, unfortunately, everyone later returns to their own kitchens and continues to cook familiar dishes from familiar ingredients. Unlike this (expert) approach, a process consultant working with the Gestalt approach will come to your "kitchen" and help you become aware of how you cook your soup!
The monks from the "The Story of Stone Soup" fairy tale are, of course, process consultants! They arrive only with stones, and they leave with them.
In my presentation, I will talk about the theory and practice of using the organizational development seminar "Stone Soup". The seminar is based on the Cleveland Model.
A few slides about myself. My name is Alexander Koptyakov. I recently turned 45, and I am at something of a peak in my life.
For the first 12 years, I developed Hard Skills – I was a programmer. To use culinary language, I was cooking individually.
Then I mastered Soft Skills as a manager – you could say I was managing the kitchen.
After studying Gestalt at VEGI with Konstantin Pavlov, I began developing Salt Skills – that is, mastering a leadership position in my organization, minimizing managerial influence and managing experience.
And for the past few years, I have become a consultant and mentor not only in other departments (finance, logistics) but also outside the organization where I still work. Today, I have developed two seminars: one, "Letter from the Future," based on the Belfast Model, and the other, "Stone Soup", based on the Cleveland Model, with which I visit other people's "kitchens"! I have named these skills Stone Skills. At the end of the presentation, I will definitely explain why I chose this particular name.