Bookings
Book a one to one free get to know and introductory coaching sessions by using this short Booking Form. We will contact you back shortly.
If you would like to find out more about the upcoming Ithaca Journey –back to basics rural experience in Camena, Romania contact us at: steliana.economu@ithacajourney.com.
To complete your booking please complete the Enrolment Form.
Liliana (29, PA to VP, Netherlands)
”The Ithaca Journey was a wonderful experience of learning and connecting with the team and the locals. The venue of this workshop was so well chosen, the nature, the team and the locals of Camena brought me back home in my heart, experiencing and appreciating the rural life and learning how privileged we are. There were many highlights of this journey, besides the great knowledge I have gained and wonderful new friends I’ve made, something that will really help my journey to continue happily, suitably & sustainably was the personal coaching with Steliana. I needed someone like her, inspiring, dedicated, structured, non-judgmental and experienced. Steliana and the rest of the team has and will always have a positive impact my in my journey in life, they inspire me to stand for what I believe in and what I want to achieve. Thank you Steliana, team group and locals. I would definitely like to go back to Ithaca Journey. ”
2010 Ithaca Journey Pics
Y2I Innovation prize
Steliana Economu,one of the three winners at the Youth to Innovation contest , was invited as a speaker at the infoDev’s 3rd Global Forum on Business Incubation in Brazil in October 2009. InfoDev is an agency of Wold Bank supporting business incubation and entrepreneurship. The Forum brought together more than 1000 participants from over 50 countries!
Coaching
At Ithaca Journey we believe that coaching is about freeing the human mind and unlocking the potential within so that the client can think better and get the confidence to initiate the change he or she desires. Steliana’s definition of a coach is that of a Catalyst in a chemical reaction, accelerating the change process but not consuming itself. Steliana sees herself as a transitional coach and her strength is the intuition to uncover the issues and assumptions by listening, asking questions and creating the environment to turn limiting assumptions into positive ones. Her approach is structured and goal oriented and she tends to adapt the coaching tool to the situation and the person.
Our offer
Ithaca Journey will help you explore the following questions:
Is your perspective on the world, the right one?
What are your values?
What are your strengths and your blind spots ?
How can you make a difference?
How can you enroll others in your journey?
The main ingredients of any Ithaca Journey learning experience are: personal development workshops, outdoor rural activities and life coaching.
Ithaca Journey
Ithaca Journey specializes in transitional coaching and experiential learning and offers rural back to back to basics learning journeys and one-on-one coaching for individuals, teams and organisations. Currently, Ithaca Journey operates in London, Romania, Netherlands.
Ithaca Journey’s founder, Steliana van de Rijt- Economu has more than 10 years international HR experience working for blue chip companies like Kraft Foods, Vodafone, Nike and Shell. Her passion and the driving mission of Ithaca Journey is : „To give people the opportunity to rediscover their uniqueness and the power to follow their dreams while navigating the changes in their life”.
Steliana set up the Ithaca Journey learning centre in her childhood village in Romania , in Camena, and this innovative learning centre offers an unique opportunity to learn and gain insights about yourself by experiencing the rural life. In 2009, the Ithaca Journey rural journey idea won an innovation prize from Infodev -World Bank and was launched in the summer of 2010 with the first rural journey welcoming its participants.
Steliana last role in London was Program Manager for Coaching for Supervisors in Shell coordinating a team of facilitators globally and facilitating herself leadership courses . She is a Coaching Practitioner member of the EMCC (European Coaching and Mentoring Council) and a MBTI certified professional with experience in using MBTI to increase team effectiveness in a setting but also in 1to1 development interventions.
