The Shift Practice®
Playfully develop human skills
That AI cannot replace
Develop deep human future skills for the world of today
We need new skills to shape the we want to live in — personally, professionally and as a society.
The market offers numerous frameworks that analyze and categorize Future Skills. But knowledge alone does not create change. We make them trainable.
With The Shift Practice® method, we can acquire these competencies in digestible, playful, simple and everyday ways.
This creates impact both at the individual level and at the systemic or organizational level.
The method is grounded in scientifically validated principles of neuroplasticity, showing that the brain forms new neural connections and strengthens existing ones through regular practice.
Future Skills therefore remain no abstract concept — they become a habit.What are Deep Human Future Skills?
The global challenges we face are often hard to digest and lead people to re-engage with themselves. Our world is undergoing rapid change; the transformations enabled by AI are still beyond full comprehension. Not only are technological developments accelerating exponentially, but we are also being challenged to handle such powerful technology responsibly.
For this reason, we need new trust — not just in technical possibilities, but also in human competencies that no AI can replace.
These are what we call Deep Human Future Skills.
Our framework comprises four competency domains essential for success in today’s world:
Conscious Self-Leadership
You align your thinking, feeling and behaviour so that you can act from inner clarity, integrity and autonomy. Key capability areas include self-competence, self-efficacy, self-determination, reflective capacity, metacognition and resilience.
Relationship and Impact
You consciously, responsibly and effectively shape human connections — beyond mere communication techniques. Key capability areas include communication competence, cooperation, empathy, listening, conflict capability, and diversity & intercultural competence.
Action and Design Intelligence
In uncertain, complex situations you make effective decisions, take action and consciously shape change instead of merely reacting or managing. Key capability areas include decision-making competence, innovation competence, design thinking, initiative and implementation strength, creativity and intuition, and adaptability.
System Intelligence
You recognise complex interrelationships, take responsibility for your own influence within systems, and consciously shape the future. Key capability areas include system competence, future and design competence, sense-making, ethical competence, digital competence, and ambiguity competence.
Your Path to Transformation
Whether you want to develop and train new skills for yourself, your team or support others in their development, we have the right format for you.
Whatever you choose, all our programmes are founded on a systemic stance.
Through personalised support and practical relevance, we create a secure environment for your development.
The Shift Practice® Practitioner
Your six-week journey to greater depth, clarity and inner leadership strength — perfect for people in positions of responsibility who want to grow personally and expand their impact. In six weeks you can expect to:
- Build inner stability in challenging situations
- Learn conscious self-leadership
- Make coherent, reliable decisions
- Handle patterns and stress constructively
- Gain clarity about your own limits, roles and spheres of influence
- Establish a lasting access to your own resources and perspectives
The Shift Practice®
Facilitator
Your 12-week online training to become a certified systemic The Shift Practice® Facilitator. On completion you will be able to:
- Identify, reflect and deliberately develop Deep Human Future Skills in your own daily life
- Confidently guide The Shift Practice® method
- Systemically accompany transformation processes
- Strengthen skills in self-leadership, relationship competence, action intelligence and system intelligence
- Integrate Deep Human Future Skills into your own trainings, coaching and workshops
Accredited & Awarded
Our facilitator training is a QRC-certified programme.
The The Shift Practice® method won the Innovation Prize by QRC in 2021.
Articles & Insights
Explore further insights into The Shift Practice® and Deep Human Future Skills in our latest articles.
Meet Edda
Edda blends systemic practice, embodiment, neuroscience and extensive experience in leadership and organisational development. Her approach is characterised by clarity, depth and a human image that places autonomy, self-organisation and dignity at the centre.
With The Shift Practice®, she creates spaces in which people meet themselves, develop inner strength and remain capable of acting in complex times.
Our Stance
We work on the basis of systemic ethics and a human view that respects autonomy, self-organisation and subjective realities. Change does not arise through pressure or directives but through cooperation, reflection and the expansion of possibilities.
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Upcoming Dates
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May 29 2026 – English Facilitator Training Start, Friday morning 900-1030 am, end July 31 2026
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