CENTER SPIRALA - Center of Selfmobility is an NGO research and development institute in the social and humanistic field. Center Spirala designed a development thinking model, called ‘Selfmobility’ around 15 years ago, based on findings from previous activities, while working with different target groups, as students, refugees, the employed, the unemployed, and the elderly. Selfmobility became and still remains a central guiding principle, based on which Center Spirala approaches various social and humanistic topics within its activities. 

Selfmobility as a model reveals alternative perspectives and approaches to individual or organisational development that incorporate the necessary elements to follow sustainable development. It highlights that development issues concerning knowledge, potential, competences, skills, visions, and missions should be approached more imaginatively and holistically, often based on the saying 'one step back for two steps forward', using alternative approaches to human thinking and mindset. The model incorporates various elements, phases, and pillars of development that need to be urgently considered if we are to pave such a selfmobile mindset that follows sustainable development practices. 

Selfmobility, whether considered in general or in relation to a specific developmental phase, addresses many of the challenges and problems that we, as individuals or organisations, face. Just a few of these are mentioned below:

• Which is the central and often hidden reason in difficult following/achieving either personal or career visions/missions/aims/ …?
• Why do people often suffer from a lack of motivation, related to organisational, personal, or career visions/missions/aims …?
• Which is the major challenge (as well as paradox) in humans’ efforts to think ‘out of the box’ …’?
• How to successfully connect the societal expectation of a person to be successful, ambitious, competitive, on one side, and to be altruistic, empathic, supportive, devoted to equality, civil rights, inclusion, on the other side…?

The Center Spirala, by strongly considering Selfmobility as a guiding principle in its activities, has been performing various working approaches inside 24 years of operation: 

• Non-formal adult education (developing and implementing various non-formal courses, such as: Finding the origins of addiction to smartphones in the light of identity framework; Leading yourself as a lever for leading others; Identifying the origins of the stress inside working environments; Mastering the skill of Silence; Discovering Self-knowledge; Deepening Soft skills through HOW4 Matrix of Human Mindset)
• Evaluation-research (evaluation of national programs inside social-care and non-formal adult education field; evaluation of projects’ products or processes inside; desk research, qualitative analysis of different kinds of quantitative or qualitative data)
• Supervision (inside social and health care, supporting the professionals who work with vulnerable groups of the population)
• Cooperating in EU projects (inside 24 year of operation, approaching to many projects’ topics such as: community engagement, inclusive education, smartphone use and addiction, leading of change, business and social competences of female prisoners and ex-offenders, virtual addiction in the light of internal vocation, personal mastery and collective intelligence, training coaching service for teachers and educators, recognition and measuring of nonformal learning, social responsibility in social care and health sector, developing of selfmobility for young with a university background, guidance and the evaluation of informal skills of guidance practitioners, preventing brain drain…)

How Center Spirala can contribute to your project proposal?

• Full commitment to co-design and dissemination     
• Adult non-formal learning (co-creating non-formal workshops/courses/curricula for the project's needs regarding various potential topics, for example (entrepreneurship, sustainable development-entrepreneurs, new entrepreneurs; community engagement, citizenship-citizens, youth; self-leadership-leaders, coordinators, managers; active aging-elderly, professionals working with elderly; inclusion-different vulnerable groups; deepening soft skills-different types of professionals, depending on project's intentions; identity-self-knowledge-youngsters, students, adults…)
• Evaluation (qualitative reflecting project's products towards achieving better quality)
• Research (desk research, qualitative analysis of any kinds of addressed project's data)
• Access to different target groups for piloting (according to the project's needs)

In case of need, please, do not hesitate to contact us at info@centerspirala.org