Professional Development Series: Resilience Circle for Full-Time Mayors

In your role, you are often called upon to act as a crisis manager. Managing crises requires resilience, a strong network, and time for reflection and planning. We define resilience as the ability to reflect on challenges and crises and use personal and social resources to leverage them for your own development, with the goal of emerging stronger.

The resilience circles for full-time female mayors are designed to do exactly that. With this training series, we offer you:

• an exchange with colleagues from across Germany,
• inspiration and targeted insights for your work, as well as
• personal empowerment for your duties in office

The format is practical, and what you learn can be applied immediately. All content is tailored to your situation as a full-time mayor. The number of participants is limited to 10–12 mayors per resilience circle to ensure an intimate exchange. Upon request, we will support you in building your network. The training series is offered by EAF Berlin and facilitated by Birte Kruse-Gobrecht, a freelance coach and Associated Expert at EAF Berlin.

The resilience circles are a proven format that was successfully piloted, evaluated, and further developed by EAF Berlin in 2024 with the support of the Federal Ministry for Education, Family, Seniors, Women and Youth
(BMBFSFJ).

Facilitator

Birte Kruse-Gobrecht is a lawyer and works as a mediator, systemic organizational consultant, and coach. As a former full-time mayor, she possesses
extensive practical knowledge, which she brings to her consulting work with municipalities, organizations, and leaders.

Dates

The ONLINE resilience circles for female mayors will take place on the following 3 dates, each from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., covering these topics:

• April 15, 2026: Mastering Conflicts with Confidence – A Toolbox for Mayors
• May 21, 2026: The Administration – Pulling Together?
• June 9, 2026: Madam Mayor, could you just...? Successful Time Management & Self-Care

Registration

Registration is for all three sessions and is binding. After registering, you will receive an invoice from us. The cost for participating in the entire series of resilience circles is 550 euros.

You can expense this program as professional development from your training budget. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact EAF Berlin at: buero@bkg-kompetenz.de

You can register until March 2nd via the following link.