About Karina Sunlife
Education, professional way, projects, publications and achievements.
Welcome, dear visitor,
I am Karina Sunlife — a coach / cultural practitioner / project manager / consultant of social entrepreneurship. Also, I am the founder of the project “The Unity of ‘Sun&Life’’,” created for people striving for happiness for themselves and their close environment.
Besides this, I have experience in the areas: Business & IT + Culture & Social + Education.
Photography and drawing are spheres of my interest. I opened my collections of works in these areas in 2022 at 8 art events in USA, Austria and England.
My path and achievements:
Education:
The Master degree in “Management of Organizations.” (I studied management, marketing, business-panning, economics, psychology, culturology, sociology, personnel management, etc.)
“Project Management in IT”, an online course by Swedish-Ukrainian program at Beetroot Academy with a certificate of 4 months theory and practice. 2921.
“Effective Communication and Public Speaking in Business.” Training by Sumy Business Support Center with the participation of the EBRD, With a certificate of completion. Sumy. 2020.
Training for facilitators of the training-game “Conflict Curve”. Impl. by “Ukrainian Network for Adult Education and Innovation Development” with “Comparative Research Network EV”. Kharkov. 2020.
School of Cultural Management for the Literary and Publishing Sector. Implemented by Ukrainian Cultural Foundation & Ukrainian Association of Education for Adult people. Sumy. 2019.
Training of public consultations and the provision of constructive dialogue between the executive branch and the society. Implemented by OSCЄ. Dnipro. 2019.
“GR-Management for NGOs: How to Build a Partnership with Local Authorities”. Training Implemented by Social Service Group under the auspices of USAID. Lviv. 2019.
Train the Trainer Program as a part of “Social Entrepreneurship as an Innovative Tool for Solving Social Development Issues” project in cooperation with East Europe Foundation, ChildFund Deutschland e.V. Certificate of 8 months theory and practice (2018).
“Solutions for frequent problems in hiring and involvement of personnel”. Seminar, provided by the Business Club WISE-Ukraine (2017).
“Logistics”, an online course provided by the St. Petersburg Polytech. University by Peter Great. (2017). (I studied: supply chains, demand management, warehouse logistics, transport logistics).
“Language, Culture, and Intercultural Communication”, an online course provided by the Moscow State University by Lomonosov (2016).
Coaching School of “The Academy of The real success” N. Latansky (2012).
Copywriting course “Magic of selling texts” Julia Volkodav (2011, training at 2 levels of the course).
Projects (selected) where I took part:
+ Solidarity Art Event 2023 in ROTER KEIL The exhibition of artwork from Austrian and Ukrainian Artists in Graz. October 2023. My roles: artist, coach.
+ “I Choose Life.” Personal exhibition. My artwork was presented at appart. exhibition. Graz, Austria. September 2023. My roles: artist.
+ The Tree of Life. The exhibition of artwork Ukrainian Artists in London. June 2023. My roles: artist.
+ Artists in prayer. The international project with the first exhibition on 08–21 of January 2023 in Vienna.
My roles: artist.
+ Solidarity art event for Ukrainian Artists in Austria This exhibition was on 15–17 of December 2022 in Graz.
My roles: artist.
+ The Intercontinental unchanging bridge of courage through the arts. This festival was on 15.10.2022 in San Francisco (USA). Artists from 5 countries united in sending art messages about Peace and Life on our planet.
My roles: author and artist.
+ Cultural Ukrainian online Khataton 3.0 NFT Edition-2022. The topic: “Ukraine: past, present, future.” with support of The Hause of Europe Foundation. My role: project manager for creating the art NFT-object.
+ Ukrainian-Georgian exchanging of expert experience on social entrepreneurship. The trainer-participant of the weekly visiting the International organizations for the development of social entrepreneurship in Georgia. Tbilisi-Kutaisi, 2019.
+ Literary and artistic residency of “SpilnoART,” implemented by The International Renaissance Foundation. Yaremche, Ukraine 2019. Coauthor of the concept of an illustrated small prose anthology; Author of the text for this book.
+ Hackathons of social entrepreneurship as a part of the project “Social entrepreneurship: the achievement of social changes at the initiative from the bottom “up,” in Kiev, Odessa, Zaporizhia in cooperation with Ukrainian Philanthropists Forum, Impact Hub Odessa, Edison Space coworking and the portal “Social Entrepreneurship in Ukraine.” 2018.
Mentor for teams of participants:
• Making teams of event participants.
• Drawing up tasks for teams.
• Determination of methods for performing command tasks.
• Mentoring work for teams of developing business models (incl. Canvas), preparation their project presentations and pitches.
+ Training Program “Together is more reliable: social entrepreneurship in partnership” as a part of “Social Entrepreneurship as an Innovative Tool for Solving Social Development Issues” project in cooperation with East Europe Foundation, ChildFund Deutschland e.V. Severodonetsk, Lugansk reg., Ukraine 2018.
Program Designer; Program Coordinator; Trainer; Mentor; Author of the methodical tool “Roadmap” (Handbook).
+ Open event “Social Entrepreneurship — the business of the future!” as a part of “Social Entrepreneurship as an Innovative Tool for Solving Social Development Issues” project in cooperation with East Europe Foundation, ChildFund Deutschland e.V. Severodonetsk, Lugansk reg., Ukraine.2018.
Program Coordinator.
I have letters of recommendation.
Oeuvre:
- The Laureate of The International multilevel Literary and Art award De Richelieu-2023: the nomination “The contest in a competition” for 3 artworks from the series “I Choose Life.”
- The Laureate of The International multilevel Literary and Art award De Richelieu-2020: Diploma “The Diamond Duke” in the nomination “A book” (“Humane Business: realities and prospects”.)
- The Laureate of The International multilevel Competition De Richelieu-2018: Diploma “The Diamond Duke” in the nomination “International Literary Olympic Games and All-around Arts” for the poem “The Cossack Glory town”, for the article “Strength, Values, and Prospects: Is there a choice?”, for the book “The attraction of prosperity. Creative solutions for life problems.”
- The Laureate of The International multilevel Competition De Richelieu-2017: Diploma “The emerald Duke” in the nomination “Book of authorship.” (“I want to be a good mom. The book for all ages”).
- The Laureate of The International literature multilevel Competition De Richelieu-2016: Diploma “The Brilliant Duke” in the nomination “The social journalism.” (Essay “My country is flourishing!”)
- The Laureate of The literature award “Koz’ma v Pustyin’ke-2016” in the nomination “Aphorisms.”
2020: my story “What does it mean to “celebrate Life”?” has been published an illustrated short prose anthology “The way to Romas.”
2019: my book “Humane Business: realities and prospects” (in Russian «Человечный бизнес: реалии и перспективы») has been published.
2017: 2 of my books: “I want to be a good mom” and “Greetings from the kingdom of feathered wizards” have been published.
2016: 3 of my books: “Dating — the right way to find a husband”, “The awesome romance with a director”, and “About publishing houses without bullying. Handbook of a creative person» have been published.
2016: 2 my articles have been published in the training-magazine “The Wheel of Life” (№3/2016 and №10/2016). And my literary works have nominated for the National Literary Award “The writer of the Year.”
2015: my poems have been included to the long-lists of semi-finalists and have been released in the BULLETINS of the III and IV International Poetry Contests “Chatuє v stolіttyah chernecha gora”, “Namalui Meni Nich” from The International Publishing House “Sklyanka chasu * Zeitglas.”
2015: 2 of my books: “The attraction of prosperity. Creative solutions of life problems” and a collection of poems “I love, Thank, Believe …” have been published.
2014: my article has been published in the training-magazine “The Wheel of Life” (№7–8 /2014).
2013: and 2014: my works of literature have been nominated for the National Literary Awards “The poet of the Year” and “The writer of the Year.”
2012: my literary works have nominated for the National Literary Award “The Poet of the Year 2012”. At the same time, one of my poems obtained the nomination “Poetry” of the National Internet Award “For the Benefit of Peace.”
This internet-project aim is to share gladness, my knowledge, and experience in order to have love, health, happiness, and prosperity for each of us in our life. As a specialist in business development and potential personal development, I choose such a way for the realization of my abilities. This is an excellent opportunity to join my professional occupation with the necessity of my soul.
P. S. I am not an English native speaker, and I want to practice English by writing articles for this blog. If you are a native speaker and find mistakes in my text, you could forgive them or, as a volunteer, help me to make that place better. :)
