What she works on in PDCS:

Examples of training courses

• Facilitation
• Evaluation - how to measure outputs and impact of projects
• Citizen participation

Examples of services

• Mediation of public conflicts
• Designing and conducting meetings
• Evaluation of projects

Examples of projects

• Long-term education of consultants for the nonprofit sector in Czech Republic and Slovakia
• PrieStory
• European Citizens’ Consultations

She has worked in PDCS (with short interruptions) since 1996, starting as a volunteer, then a project manager, trainer and facilitator and today as executive director.

She studied urban planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava and took a one-year study programme at the Institute for Public Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, USA. She completed PhD studies at the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava.

In 2011/2012 she worked as the head of the Office of the Slovak Government Plenipotentiary for the Development of Civil Society.

As an expert she deals mostly with public conflict resolution and prevention, citizen participation in public issues decision-making, the development of civil society, deliberative democracy, community development and cross-sector cooperation. She has trained and consulted internationally in over 30 countries.