 Joyce
Dattner is a life performance
coach and trainer who believes that life-long emotional,
social and intellectual development is key to succeeding
in life and in work. For twenty years, she has been helping
individuals and work groups reinitiate their capacity
to grow into new careers and leadership positions.
As a coach, Joyce takes “life performance”
literally—she helps people see living as an ongoing
creative act, and themselves as capable of performing
new, more effective and satisfying ways of being in
the world. Her clients learn the skills of improvising
and performing to produce qualitative change in how
they relate to themselves, their colleagues and loved
ones. Specializing in professional and executive coaching
in individual and group environments, Joyce helps her
clients grow to meet tough career challenges—managing
career changes and transitions, making the leap from
manager to executive or from employee to entrepreneur,
navigating office politics, and handling women’s
and diversity issues in the workplace.
Joyce’s latest venture is the West Coast Center
for Life Performance Coaching, which she founded and
directs. There she leads a two-year training program
for teachers, doctors, social workers, coaches, counselors
and therapists in her performance-based approach to
human development. In addition, she conducts long and
short term training for non-profit organizations. Among
her current ongoing projects are organizational development
and team building workshops for Bay-area non-profits
and program design and staff training for a Los Angeles
County community health center.
Joyce Dattner has never been satisfied with accepting
things as they are. As a young teacher in the 1970’s
she left a career in the New York City public school
system to search for more creative approaches to learning
and development. What she found was the groundbreaking
discoveries of philosopher Fred Newman, founder of social
therapy, and Lois Holzman, developmental psychologist,
who together developed a unique performance-based approach
to human development.
Driven by her commitment to helping people change themselves—and
in the process, change the world—Joyce became
a leading practitioner of Newman and Holzman’s
approach, now used in youth development programs, private
and public mental health centers, innovative alternative
school initiatives, and agencies and organizations servicing
a wide range of populations in varied settings—from
New York City to Los Angeles to Johannesburg.
In addition to her coaching and training work in the
San Francisco Bay Area, Joyce serves as a faculty member
of the New York City-based East Side Institute for Group
and Short Term Psychotherapy, and has worked with Fortune
500 companies as a senior trainer with the New York
City-based consulting firm, Performance of a Lifetime
(POAL). She has traveled across the globe to Taiwan
to provide advanced training for the faculty and staff
of a network of non-governmental organizations, including
community activists, trade union organizers, teachers
and sex workers, and to the former Yugoslavia to train
psychologists, social workers and teachers working with
children and adults living in refugee centers.
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