About
Since many years I have been working with traumatised patients: survivors of war, relational violence, sexual mis- and abuse, and refugees. I am working with cancer patients, with dying persons and their relatives; and as supervisor in the fields of palliative care, grieving, telephone emergency services, services for refugees.
Trained as a GESTALT therapist I have unfolded, and cultivated attitudes rooting in attention - awareness – being in the present moment. Fritz S. Perls, founder of GESTALT therapy, emphasized the importance of the phenomenology of the Here&Now in a set of questions. These questions the therapist has to ask herself and by doing so supports the patient to ask herself/ himself are: which body sensation do I recognise, what do I emotionally feel, what are the thoughts that occur?
This phenomenological approach of becoming aware of any personal experience I learned to explore even more deeply the more I became interested in meditation and Buddhism in the last couple of years. In the same time there have been profound findings in neuroscience about the functions and the neuroplasticity of the brain. This very exciting field was a door-opener for my understanding of the development of trauma-responses patients showed. It also was a portal to my own practice of meditation, to my being in the world as a whole.
My aim is to share my abundant experiences and insights by teaching MSC/ Mindful Self-Compassion, MindfulMeditation and Meditation classes and by offering Open Meditation sessions and retreats.
Since childhood I love music, singing, body movement like yoga and dancing, photography, poetry. Because I also love various kinds of handicrafts I have been interested in Indigenous Art Work and experimented with quite a number of techniques myself. Right now I am coming back to calligraphy where body/ breath and mind and Heart meet.
I am a mother of four adult daughters, and eight wonderful grandchildren. I am one of the first green voters in Germany, feeling in charge of the world we are passing on to our descendants in terms of ecology, politics, and life honoring values.
To feed your curiosity: I am not native English speaking. English was one field of study at the university. I used to live in the USA, and I travelled many times to Canada visiting with friends. Sometimes I see English speaking patients in my private praxis.
One of my Gestalt trainers was Canadian. The MSC training was in English, the mentoring, too. Finally, the Mindful Meditation Teacher Training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach et.al. U.S. American teachers took place in California. The mentor was a teacher from GB for more than two years. I feel well prepared for counselling and teaching in English.
Since many years I have been working with traumatised patients: survivors of war, relational violence, sexual mis- and abuse, and refugees. I am working with cancer patients, with dying persons and their relatives; and as supervisor in the fields of palliative care, grieving, telephone emergency services, services for refugees.
Trained as a GESTALT therapist I have unfolded, and cultivated attitudes rooting in attention - awareness – being in the present moment. Fritz S. Perls, founder of GESTALT therapy, emphasized the importance of the phenomenology of the Here&Now in a set of questions. These questions the therapist has to ask herself and by doing so supports the patient to ask herself/ himself are: which body sensation do I recognise, what do I emotionally feel, what are the thoughts that occur?
This phenomenological approach of becoming aware of any personal experience I learned to explore even more deeply the more I became interested in meditation and Buddhism in the last couple of years. In the same time there have been profound findings in neuroscience about the functions and the neuroplasticity of the brain. This very exciting field was a door-opener for my understanding of the development of trauma-responses patients showed. It also was a portal to my own practice of meditation, to my being in the world as a whole.
My aim is to share my abundant experiences and insights by teaching MSC/ Mindful Self-Compassion, MindfulMeditation and Meditation classes and by offering Open Meditation sessions and retreats.
Since childhood I love music, singing, body movement like yoga and dancing, photography, poetry. Because I also love various kinds of handicrafts I have been interested in Indigenous Art Work and experimented with quite a number of techniques myself. Right now I am coming back to calligraphy where body/ breath and mind and Heart meet.
I am a mother of four adult daughters, and eight wonderful grandchildren. I am one of the first green voters in Germany, feeling in charge of the world we are passing on to our descendants in terms of ecology, politics, and life honoring values.
To feed your curiosity: I am not native English speaking. English was one field of study at the university. I used to live in the USA, and I travelled many times to Canada visiting with friends. Sometimes I see English speaking patients in my private praxis.
One of my Gestalt trainers was Canadian. The MSC training was in English, the mentoring, too. Finally, the Mindful Meditation Teacher Training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach et.al. U.S. American teachers took place in California. The mentor was a teacher from GB for more than two years. I feel well prepared for counselling and teaching in English.