Director, Trainer and Mentor
Cristina Viñas has a degree in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Zaragoza in the branch of English Philology, and she is specialized in Pedagogy, certified in French by the Alliance Française and the E.O.I., official German examiner up to level C2 and sworn Translator and Interpreter by the German Ministry of Culture. She is always in a continuous training process.
Beside that, Cristina Viñas has a Master’s degree in Secondary Education Teaching, Baccalaureate, Professional training and Language Teaching. Additionally, she has the qualifications to teach Spanish language and literature, as well as German, French and English.
She has also specialized in creating methodologies, training programs and crash and tailored courses related to Learning-Education-Teaching, Well-being and self-knowledge and Constructive Communication and Languages, as well as in mentoring for teachers and educators, families, schools, entities, life coaching and cross-coaching for individuals.
She also collaborates as a trainer and motivational speaker in Spain and Germany.
From 1992 to the present (From most to least recent):
- Facilitator for families and educators of Positive Discipline (Positive Discipline Association / USA)
- Neuroeducation, Neurodidactics and Pedagogy in movement (Macmillan education; Cornelsen / Freie Universität Berlin)
- In England with Macmillan education: Advancing learning
- In Germany with Klett: Fortbildungen für Dozenten (The successful application of digitalization in language teaching)
- In Germany with Cornelsen: Potentiale entfalten (The development of potential)
- In Spain, attendance at Tekman education Webinars on education
- Mentoring: Hervé Baunard (France), Seth Gardner (England), Valerie Brown and Mark Nepo (U.S.A.)
- Mindfulness in education: International conferences
- Awakened schools: Mindfulness training up to the level of trainer, applied to education (Institute of Educational Sciences of the University of Barcelona)
- Deep listening: Active listening, open question (Institute of Educational Sciences of the University of Barcelona)
- Creative writing (Juan Bolea, CAI Zaragoza Foundation)
- Theatrical elements in the classroom (Goethe Institut)
- Official examiner of the German language up to level C2 – Telc (The European Language Certificates)
- Positive conflict management (Volkshochschule Germany and CAI foundation in Zaragoza)
- Great teachers (Personalized invitation to attend the Antena 3 event)
She began studying languages at an early age in response to her vocation to teach successfully and promote understanding between people and cultures.
Cristina Viñas has combined her studies and research with positions as a translator and interpreter of Spanish, French, English and German, for entities such as the OECD and CNR, and as a language coach teacher for schools and teaching centres in England, Germany and the University from Zaragoza.
Subsequently, she has continued to expand her training as an educational, pedagogical, and motivational advisor, linguistic-intercultural mediator, teacher coach, teacher trainer and personal mentor.
At the same time, she has created her own methodology and language and training school, recognized for the satisfactory progress in the language teaching-learning process, and collaborates as a teacher with various schools and the University of Zaragoza as a teacher, as well as a trainer and mentor for various foundations and entities.
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“Some of the aspects that I cherish more in my profession as trainer, mentor and coach teacher are confirming how all students can learn with a personalized adequate focus and observing people’s smiles when they free themselves and connect again with motivation, creativity and inspiring projects”.
Cristina Viñas