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Julius Hassemer

beyond Quartier Heidestrasse

part of a series on Blossom

About the speaker

Julius Hassemer (he/him) develops empowerment and career orientation courses for young adults at WeTeK Berlin gGmbH (larger, Berlin-exklusive media education nonprofit). He is also a lecturer in communication, with an emphasis on anti-discrimination — for example, at the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) and the JobCenter. He works as a coach, has initiated a works committee (Betriebsrat) and co-founded a parent initiative focused on diversity and anti-discrimination.

His key areas of expertise include communication, gender diversity, team building, and intersectional anti-discrimination. He has conducted and published research on nonverbal communication (gesture studies) at the University of São Paulo, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the European University Viadrina.

Julius has 20 years of stage experience, including as a singer and host of a musical cabaret trio. He has two children and lives in Berlin-Lichtenberg.

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Rituals for Resilience In this talk, I will join personal psychological resilience with another important form of resilience, which can have a great impact on a company: team resilience. Team resilience relates to the capacity of a group of people to overcome conflicts, withstand external pressure and forge a single team out of individual personalities. Teams also need to heal and renew when individuals leave and enter the team by building trust as well as finding and fostering new skills.

All these processes rely on a healthy “social structure” to be successful, and motivate people both for their job and their role in the team. In this talk, the most important element of social structure is rituals. Rituals can help people to simply switch from their private role into a work role. They can also help share inspiration and explore each individual’s motivation behind their work profile and role in the team or company.

But what are good rituals? Who initiates them and what’s the social mechanisms behind them? Let’s talk about it.