A Rabbinic Consultancy for creating, delivering and managing “value-add” transformative experiences for individuals living in our spiritual cyberspace.
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Transformational Experiences
A Rabbinic Consultancy for creating, delivering and managing experiences for:
- Personal Growth and Spiritual Well-being
- Organizational Development and Effectiveness
- Business Process Improvement and Strategic Planning
- Communal and Social Responsibility Initiatives and Projects
Transformational Experiences are those that change our lives and outlook
Within the Experience Economy Context:
There is a difference between purchasing pasta sauce and pasta at the local grocery and sitting down at the local Italian restaurant and yet another difference between the local Italian restaurant and the restaurant down the street from your hotel in Italy. The pasta and sauce will satisfy one’s hunger needs, the local Italian restaurant is chosen based on value added experience factors such as ambiance, dependability, service, noise, etc. The restaurant in Italy is the experience.
Reversing the order of consideration. Perhaps we have been fortunate enough to have visited Italy and have enjoyed the local restaurant meal. Back home, we think about that experience as we choose our local Italian restaurant. Or, if we choose to eat at home to enjoy a home cooked meal with the pasta and pasta sauce, we might well recall the Italy experience or the last great meal we had at the restaurant.
The three experiences reflect what has been called the “Experience Economy”
The term “Experience Economy” was first used in a 1998 article by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore describing the experience economy as the next economy following the agrarian economy, the industrial economy, and the most recent service economy. The concept had been previously researched by many authors. Pine and Gilmore argue that businesses must orchestrate memorable events for their customers, and that memory itself becomes the product: the “experience”.
Defining the specific type of experiences offered:
Transformational experiences can be defined as experiences that fundamentally challenge a person’s assumptions and preconceptions, as well as their beliefs and values, affecting how they understand themselves, others, and the world. (https://provost.tufts.edu/wp-content/uploads/Theme-2.pdf)
Nicolas L Behrmann, Director and Transformational Experience Curator
Rabbi Nicolas L Behrmann has spent the last forty years directing organizations as they implemented transforming visions of the future. These visions of the future included: improving a business process, developing a strategic roadmap, adopting a computer system to replace manual data processing, managing a global corporation’s email upgrade project. This development and direction of future oriented projects culminated in directing Independent Verification and Validation reviews of government projects.
Since his ordination at Hebrew Union College in 1971, he has served congregations as well as local and regional educational organizations, directing leadership development programs and communal fundraising campaigns. As a trained group facilitator, he has lead staff development, inter-personal communications, family life, personal growth and life cycle workshops. As a Jewish educator, he pioneered experiential family and adult focused curriculum including biblical and prayer-oriented psychodrama, as well as a variety of multi-media Jewish experience workshop events.
j-lab – Searching the Jewish Experience for personal meaning, spirituality and creativity
HaMakom – The Transformative Experience Space