Mentoring, Leadership & Coaching, 9th - 13th February 2026
Working with people in a team may be demanding. Living in a community and family is sometimes not so easy. Standing up for your opinions and rights and communicating openly either with your boss or partner may often be tiring.
There are ways, though, to improve, stand up for our opinion, navigate people around us more effectively, give ourselves and others better guidance.
How to manage your life better? How to lead your team and communicate with your colleagues or family in a better way? How to improve yourself and live your life more profoundly? How to be a coach of your own life?
Sign up for our course and find out the answers!
The main purpose of this training course is to provide you with practical tips and techniques, which can be used while working with a team, facing difficulties at your work, with your friends or family, enhancing your performance or improving efficacy. The training course will focus on different situations where people take on different roles (either leaders or mentors or team members), on the differences and similiatrities that make us special and equal at the same time. We will be focusing on ourselves personally, ourselves in interaction with others in professional and/ or personal environment, and the group as a whole. We will go step-by-step. Participants will be actively involved in all the processes, interact and be constantly challenged in the learning process in a safe environment.
Who can participate in this course?
The course is designed for anyone interested in actively working on themselves, improving their cooperation and mentoring skills.
Course content:
The programme of the training course will be very interactive and requires your active participation. We will laugh, work, learn from each other, break free of what does not serve us anymore, reflect but also relax.
The programme will include topics and activities like:
- leadership & mentor role
- differences between leader, mentor, coach, therapist and counselor
- behavioral patterns and how to break them
- conflict management
- team roles and team dynamics
- strengths and weaknesses
- motivation
- self-regulation and self-coaching
- new points of view, feedback and a lot of practice.
Dates and schedule:
- 9th - 13th February 2026, Brno, Czech Republic; 4-5 hours a day – 9 AM - 1:30 PM; including coffee break.
- Detailed daily schedule is here or on the right side of the website.
- The course will be organised only if at least 4 participants apply.
- The capacity of this course is limited to 15 participants.
Participation fee:
450 EUR (early-bird price until 1st December) / 500 EUR (standard price)
The fee includes:
- training course program
- all materials in and after the sessions
- guidance and willingness to help and enjoy your stay in Brno
- welcome package
- online informational guide with everything you need to know ahead your arrival
- organisational and lecturer fee
Grants such as Erasmus+ Staff mobility training or VET or other may be used to cover the fee. For different grant possibilities click here.
For registration see info below.
The fee (500 EUR) is to be paid before 9th January 2026 at the latest, in order to ensure your place in the group. For applications and payments before 1st December the fee is reduced to 450 EUR.
What is not included in the fee:
- travel costs
- accommodation in Brno - we can provide you with tips
- meals – there are plenty of possibilities to eat for very reasonable prices (e.g. lunch menu = soup + main dish, is around 7-8 € in most of the restaurants)
- insurance – we recommend you conclude additional travel insurance on top of the European health insurance card (EHIC)
- vaccination
Registration:
- Click here: https://isois.ois.muni.cz/en/incoming-application/application/
- Choose Incoming staff - Apply >>
- Create new application with this information:
Program: Erasmus +
Type of cooperation: Training mobility
Academic year: 2025/2026
Faculty at Masaryk University: Faculty of Pharmacy
Unit at Masaryk University: Faculty of Pharmacy - In Step 1 fill in all compulsory fields (marked with a red asterisk)
In section Stay data fill in your sending university/institution, if you do not have any (you are not a university staff), just state: not applicable (the same to the home faculty) - Stay from/to: 2026-02-09; 2026-02-13
Form of mobility: Physical mobility
Stay type: Staff training
Number of teaching/training hours: 22 - Save your application and you are (almost) done!
If you received Erasmus+ funding please proceed to Step 2, where you will attach the Mobility Agreement - In Step 2, please fill in and attach signed Mobility Agreement.
The pre-filled Mobility Agreement for this course can be downloaded HERE.
If your home institution needs to have it signed first from our side (Masaryk university), please attach the Agreement signed just by you. We will contact you by email with the fully signed Agreement. - Step 3 > Save and submit.
- To complete the participation fee payment please click HERE for early-bird payment or HERE for standard payment.
You will create an order in our system (put it in your cart like in any other e-shop) and the system will issue an invoice for you with the payment details.
If you need specific details in the invoice (e.g. your university information), fill it in directly during the order! (In the section: "Billing information".)
Mgr. Filip Kňažek
non-formal education trainer, facilitator and pharmacist
Filip has extensive experience from intensive foreign and domestic educational courses dedicated to self-development and working with people on various topics from communication (effective, affective, non-violent), coaching, mindfulness, presentation and leadership skills, to project management and marketing. In his courses, he helps others discover and get to know their strengths and weaknesses, develop their better selves by coming out of the comfort zone, getting to know and accepting their fears, breaking down patterns of behavior and habits. He provides participants with useful tips and tools that they can use in their everyday lives.
Brno
With nearly 400 000 inhabitants, Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, one of the safest countries in the world. Located in the very heart of Europe with the perfect location to explore the entire continent, it was voted one of the best student cities in the world. It is the historical capital of Moravia region and is well-known for its castles Špilberk or Veveří, Petrov cathedral, funcionalist UNESCO villa Tugendhat, fireworks festival and beautiful natural surroundings. Its vibrant student spirit, rich nightlife, unexpected cuisine and unique coffee culture make it the perfect student city.
For more information about the city visit www.gotobrno.cz/en/.
Masaryk University
With its 35 000 students, Masaryk University is the second biggest and most prestigious university in the Czech Republic. Established in 1919, it currently has 10 faculties (one of which is the Faculty of Pharmacy). Masaryk University offers courses across the full spectrum of traditional and contemporary fields, with a particular focus on science. With its unique infrastructure where tradition meets future, classes are taught in ultra-modern campus and world-class laboratory facilities as well as beautiful historical buildings. It is ranked #430 in QS Global World Universities Rankings 2025.
Learn more about our university here: www.muni.cz/en/about-us.
PharmDr. Marie Valentová, Ph.D.
Organiser, Institute of Lifelong Learning
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