Welcome to Jonas Himmelstrand Mentor

I am Jonas Himmelstrand and I work as an educator, mentor and writer running my own business based in Sweden since 1981.

During the last 25 years I have given training programmes for large enterprises as well as small companies in the Nordic countries, Britain and Mexico. My speciality is process oriented workshops for teams, Building a Super Team, and the workshop Training Skills for Professionals where many hundreds of professional participants have learnt to become more effective trainers and presenters with the aid of video feedback and individual mentoring. I have also made myself known as a positive and inspiring lecturer on a variety of subjects with the area of leadership, team work, pedagogics and personal and professional development.

I trained to be a chemist at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. I studied Mathematics, Physics and Social Anthropology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Ultimately I found chemistry between people more interesting than chemistry between molecules. For three years I worked at a therapeutic home with children and their families. I received my pedagogical training from the British consultant Mike Pegg. I have also completed a four-year training in personal development with the American therapist Binnie A. Dansby. I travelled extensively in my early years. When 16 years old I had travelled around the world, lived and gone to school in Nigeria and the United States as well as in Sweden making English a strong second language. I am married to Tamara with whom I collaborate on the Training Skills workshops. We have three children.

I have written and co-written six books and booklets in Swedish. Since 1992 I have been one of the contributors to the newsletter Strategies to Learn & Grow of which I am today the editor. Strategies is published in both Swedish and English. Read more about Strategies to Learn & Grow in English at www.stratletter.com. My most recent book is in Swedish and would have the English title: Following your heart in the social utopia of Sweden.

Recent news

Following your heart in the social utopia of Sweden
This new book of mine in Swedish is a major piece of work at 613 pages and nearly five years in creating. It contains my personal growth history, my experiences from 25 years as a mentor and educator in Sweden and my reflexions on the Swedish social system based on these experiences. The book is still only in Swedish but more and more materials will published about it in English. Read more here.

Training programmes

Building a Super Team
This is a process oriented workshop of 1-2 days with possible follow-ups. It gives the members of the team a possibility to go through a process where they will truly "own" the purpose and goal of their team. This enables an action plan with a new level of commitment. The workshop has been successful on all levels from top teams in businesses to teams in the caring professions.

Training Skills for Professionals
This is a 2-3 day workshop for a small group of 6-10 participants focusing on improving their training skills. This implies both verbal skills such as structure and rhetoric as well as non-verbal skills such as charisma and body language. Methods used are: video feedback, individual mentoring and ample time for practise. Participants typically report that they are more successful at whatever training or presentation they do as well as enjoying it more.

Please contact me for a custom designed programme for your organisation at our contact page.

Lectures

Here are some of the topics I lecture on today:

• Training Skills for Professionals.
• Building a Super Team.
• Strength Based Development.
• The Leadership of Tomorrow – Stewardship.
• Expand Your Comfort Zone and Realize Your Full Human Potential.
• The Art of Listening and Mentoring.
• The Value of Relationships to Health and Creativity.

Please contact me for detailed programme at our contact page.

Knowledge in written form

Strategies to Learn & Grow
This one page biweekly newsletter – two articles and one review – published in English is a great way to keep your human resources growing in your company or organisation. Strategies is written by me and two other highly experienced consultants and positive enthusiasts. With different distribution licenses the short easy to read Strategies to Learn & Grow newsletter can be on hundreds or even thousands of computers every other Monday morning 22 times per year. Read more about Strategies to Learn & Grow at www.stratletter.com.