In 2013 the Women & Success project created, in partnership with the Group of Social and Organizational Psychology of the University of Algarve, coordinated by Gabriela Gonçalves, Ph.D, the first national survey which aims at analysing the levels of women's satisfaction with their personal and professional life, in Portugal.
This study seeks to bring to light how women perceive their overall fulfilment; to what extent they feel there are opportunities for their personal development and in how they manage to balance out these two dimensions, the personal and the professional.
Women's potential has always been a major motivation of the work of Life Coach Ria van Doorn, the founder of the Women & Success project. Together with a group of six entrepreneur women, she conceived this study, which intended, first and foremost, that women reflected and questioned about themselves, that they would be able to gain perspective on their reality and seek to find their inner balance. This first phase of self-consciousness would subsequently become a collective reflection on the lives of women in Portugal.
Preliminary results of the investigation indicated that the main needs of women in their personal development process are: knowing their potential, negotiating skills, personal branding and the balance between personal and professional life.
It is essential to continue to expand the number of women surveyed, therefore the survey is still available at http://goo.gl/Hppsib in Portuguese and at http://goo.gl/jiwDJd in English. Women & Success welcomes all women in Portugal to complete it now.
Women & Success is an initiative of Ria van Doorn, which began in 2012, and develops its activities in the Algarve region. Women & Success is pleased to continue organising workshops, meetings and events to stimulate women to unleash their potential, enabling them to reach and exceed their goals.
More information on www.riavandoorn.com and on the Facebook page www.facebook.com/womenandsuccess. .
See the promotional film at http://goo.gl/Vq4QiU.
