ELEVATE by Tihana Dragičević
ICF PCC
EMCC EIA Master Practitioner Coach Mentor
EMCC ESIA Supervisor
Author of 2 professional books
She has worked with leading global companies such as Allianz and Bayer in national and regional roles in employee development.
She decided to align her academic teaching background with coaching, completed the Oxford Coaching & Mentoring School London, and subsequently became officially accredited with the EMCC.
For ten years she worked in the Netherlands on personal and professional development trainings, spending a great deal of time travelling. She practises supervision with young coaches, trainers and people who work with people, and operates in what is known as both business and life coaching.
She volunteers and gives back to the community. She spent three years on the board of HUC (the Croatian Coaching Association) and serves as president of the Croatian branch of the global coaching institution EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council). She is one of the co-founders of SAN (Supervision Adria Network), the only supervision platform in this region.
The School for Trainers and the EMCC EIA accredited School of Coaches are her central educational programmes. She is the author of two books that complement these programmes, published in Croatian and available in English on Amazon (School for Trainers and School of Coaches).
Mother, wife, daughter, friend. She respects and loves nature and makes a point of spending time in it. She is fascinated by the human psyche from every angle and out of curiosity has spent years exploring Vedic knowledge (jyotish, yoga, vastu, ayurveda) and transpersonal psychology. She stands for excellence in every regard, believes in people, and holds that we are each our own masterpiece.
Tihana’s coaching journey has been rich. She likes to say that a coach is worth as much as their CPPD (Continuous Personal and Professional Development) — because coaching is both an art and a strategy for working with people, and we ourselves are responsible for building our background knowledge.
A significant part of her inspiration comes from the personal development trainings she participated in and delivered at Olde Vechte in the Netherlands — designed in the spirit of Werner Erhard’s revolutionary EST training in California and Pat Grove’s transformative ontological trainings in South Africa. Her teachers in this field are the late Pat Grove and Marko Vlaming from the Netherlands.
As a coach, all of this gives Tihana an integrative approach focused on the client’s regeneration. She warmly recommends Olde Vechte and the personal development trainings that continue to take place there to anyone who wants to step outside and shake up their existence.
Author — she has written two books, published in Croatian and in English (Amazon): School for Trainers and School of Coaches. These are professional books that complement the namesake programmes but also provide a complete insight into the field of working with people, for those who are just entering this area.
What does her coaching look like? Everything opens up.
She has accumulated 4,500 hours of international education and development, beyond the formal kind. She has been enriched by the various approaches she draws on in her work: ontological coaching, systemic constellations, body-oriented therapy, NLP, psychodrama, Zen Buddhism, and experiential learning in nature.
Her approach is holistic and systemic. Holistic in the sense that it looks at the person as a whole, and systemic in the sense that it looks at the person within the context they are in.
The coaching she practices is ontological — a fascinating blend of neuroscience, biology, psychology and philosophy that focuses on the idea of the Observer observing the Body, Language and Mood.
What methods do I use?
- Individual approach – medium-sized groups
- Experiential learning – less theory, more experiential practice
- Holistic approach – paying attention to all aspects of the person/team/organisation
- Systemic approach – paying attention to the broader context and subtle connections within which the individual/team/organisation currently operates
- Ontological coaching – paying attention to the way of being through body, mood and language
- Game-Based learning – learning through games
- Psychodramatic approach and theater – using guided drama and role play to resolve various problem situations, and dramatic staging to set the scene.
Quality
As an accredited EMCC EIA Master Practitioner Coach Mentor — the highest level of EMCC individual accreditation, requiring at minimum seven years of practice and a sustained contribution to the coaching profession — and as an accredited supervisor with over 4,500 completed sessions, I work in accordance with the ethical standards of the profession, continuously develop my competencies, and renew my licence every 5 years. This speaks volumes about the quality of service I deliver.
SATISFIED CLIENTS
For people who work with people.
Dare to become your own masterpiece. The first step is to ask. Whatever is on your mind. That's how growth begins.
