Coaching leaders and teams through movement

What the body understands, the mind understands.

I work on what your company is facing right now: trust in the team, negotiation, calm under pressure. Not through a lecture, but through exercises from Tai Chi and Wing Chun, in which the body recognises when the path is right and when it is not.

Bratislava and surroundings · on site at your company · in English and Slovak

What I solve

Not a Tai Chi class. Training for what is burning right now.

Every engagement starts with a problem, not an exercise. We name it together, and I build the exercises that make it visible in the body.

Trust and communication

People stop listening and everyone pulls their own way. In a pair, when one leads and the other responds, the body shows at once who is listening and who is pushing.

Negotiating without force

Negotiation turns into a shoving match. Pushing hands teaches you to receive force, stay in contact with it, and act only when the space opens.

Calm under pressure

Decisions under stress and a mind that won't switch off. The Wu Ji state, relaxation without collapse, gives firmness without rigidity.

How I work

From the problem to understanding in the body

The body learns faster than the mind. Once someone has felt that pressure on a partner creates resistance and a light impulse creates cooperation, no presentation on communication will explain it better.

  1. ConversationWith leadership, or with you, we name what needs to change: negotiation, trust, calm, leading people.
  2. Tailored planI design a series of analogous exercises that translate the problem into movement.
  3. The body experiences itIn pairs and in movement, the body recognises when the path is right and when it is not. No theory, directly.
  4. Back to workAfter each exercise we find together where you meet the same thing at work and what you will do differently.

My tools

Three paths to the same place

I choose the tool according to what you need to understand. Often I combine them.

Tai Chi

Rooting, breath and pushing hands. How to receive force instead of fighting it. Wu Wei in practice.

Wing Chun

Sensitivity, timing and the shortest path. 來留去送,甩手直衝: receive what comes, escort what leaves, and when the line opens, go straight in.

Dance leading

Clear intent, a light impulse and room for the partner. The fastest school of leading people and of trust.

Who can make muddy water clear? Leave it still, and it clears by itself.

Tao Te Ching, chapter 15

The mind works the same way. Good action needs a clear head, and a clear head needs stillness. The Taoists call this Wu Wei: acting without unnecessary effort, at the right moment.

Portrait of Jozef Herák

About

The negotiating table and the dance floor

I have spent most of my professional life where people negotiate, sell and decide under pressure, in Slovakia and in the Gulf. Alongside it, 24 years on the dance floor and 9 years of Wing Chun and Tai Chi. Both worlds taught me the same thing: the best decisions come not from tension, but from balance and calm.

24

years in Latin American dance, Slovak junior champion

9

years of Wing Chun and Tai Chi under the personal guidance of masters

MBA

and international business experience

The full story

Working together

Start with a conversation

For companies, the first conversation and a 20-minute taster for leadership are free. Leaders start with a Wu Ji meeting, whose fee is deducted from the programme.

Companies

Workshop

2 hours on one theme for up to 20 people. For a leadership offsite, team building or company day.

€450
Companies

Pilot month

4 sessions of 60 minutes on your team's themes, for a group of up to 12. Then the annual programme at €750 per month.

€800
Leaders

Wu Ji first meeting

60 minutes at your place. We name what you are facing and I propose a programme.

€80
Leaders

Calm Under Pressure

12 one-to-one sessions over 12 weeks, a personal plan and a daily routine.

€900

Invoiced; I am not registered for VAT, so prices are final.

Let's name what you're facing

Call or write. I reply personally within 24 hours and we arrange a short conversation.