Going beyond the first impression...

An evening for leaders who want to know what drives people they lead.

ART is the way in 

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  • December 15, 2026

    18:00 - 20:00, door opens at 17:30

  • Art Galerie Sechs, Basel

    Picassopl. 4, 4052, Basel

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    Offer valid until November 30th

Reading a painting and reading people's core motives share the same root.

Both are projections of our own filters: experience, cultural bias, education, the era we grew up in. Original or fake.

Misreading people in your team comes at a great cost. Your job is to manage teams and experienced professionals across borders & cultures.

You have to get it right.

Getting to know your colleagues beyond first impressions can transform how you work together. 

What looks like a weakness through your filters is often a strength read wrong.

Too much confidence…

and people see you as ARROGANT — the person no one wants to collaborate with.

Stubbornness, read wrong …

might be PERSEVERANCE — the strength you need to follow through, and finish what everyone else gave up on.

Too much Tolerance…

makes others read you as INDIFFERENT — no opinion of your own, no preferences.

Your evening, from your first impression to a second look.

  • Experience art

    We start with a personal guided tour, with the stories you won’t find on the wall labels. Then you look closely at one art work and its story. Three questions shifts your first impression as you learn more.

  • Experience your strengths

    With a set of strength cards, you map your own strengths and see how they shape your leadership style. Which ones support you, and which ones, taken too far, get in your way?

  • Experience a second look

    Knowing the story behind a painting changes how you see it. Knowing someone’s reasons changes how you read their behaviour. You leave with a new language for what drives people

  • "Galerie give us a unique opportunity to go beyond the first impressions. With every guided tour and every curator's story, you get more clues and more angles from which to see, feel and relate to art."

    -- Gallery Owner

This evening made for leaders who are:

  • Inheriting or building a team

    not another workshop with glue&scissors.

  • Growing fast with new people

    put the right people together and build trust from the start.

  • Leading across borders & cultures

    trust no longer depends on where they come from.

  • Rebuilding broken trust

    understand what drives each person, beyond their role and title.

Not for you if you want a quick fix to make people to do what you want, without respecting who they are at their core. This is not a test result to file away.

Knowing someone’s reasons changes how you interpret their words and actions.

Meet your host

-- Diana Cherniavska, Relationship Intelligence™ Coach

Behind the first impression

  • How we arrive

  • A first impression

  • How does it make me feel?

  • Mapping my ten strengths

  • Sharing a second look

  • Clues on the table

  • My top strength means.....

To join November edition, please request an invite.

Tell us a little about your role and your team. We read every request ourselves and reply within two working days.