Personality & Potential Development

Personal development happens in the 'media' of awareness and relation. Hence, my focus as a personal developer is on allowing awareness and relation.

The more awareness a person acquires about their emotional, cognitiv, relational, behavioural patterns, the more it is possible to integrate and proceed them, the more it is possible to develop them one step further towards 'what they are meant to be' and essentially are. This processes of gaining awareness often happens in a constructive, well-disposed relation - thanks to feedback, contact, joint perception, interaction. Here, an experienced, refined, professional counterpart and companion might make all the difference.
In a lifespan-perspective, personal development is based in a set of personal attitudes: a willingness to perceive, engage and 'truely get oneself in'. This attitude might as well be experienced and further matured in the collaboration with the professional companion, who also acts as a role model; the experienced set of attitudes is then more and more incorporated and the client's development benefits sustainingly and in the long term.

What enables me for my work is that I am at home in both worlds - the professional world of organisations (here my primary access is made up of change and transformation projects, that requiere and allow to 'dig deep' into the subsurface layers of organisations) and the world of personal transformation - a combination that is rather uncommon.

I am a psychologist (Diplom-Psychologe, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and wrote my Diploma about "psychological counselling in situations of intense emotions and in organisations";
and I am a sociologist (M.A., Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; former scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and wrote my master thesis about Norbert Elias' figurational sociology and the interconnectedness of social, psychological and historical processes.

Since 2008 I am a freelancer working in both organisational development and personal development.

I attended >300 days of advanced training, further education and supervision in a multitude of methods that qualify for my work with individuals and groups:

  • systemic councelling and systemic constellations
    (amongst others with Albrecht Mahr / Institut für Systemische Aufstellungen und Integrative Lösungen ISAIL; Franz Ruppert; Gunther Schmidt)
  • process work and worldwork
    (amongst others at the Institut für Prozessarbeit Zürich; International Association of Process-Oriented Psychology)
  • working with Ego-States
    (aka the 'inner team') (amongst others Woltemade Hartmann and Jochen Peichl; WieTra, Wiesbaden)
  • hypnotherapy und hypnosystemic work
    (amongst others at Milton-Erikson-Institut Frankfurt/Kriftel and Heidelberg; Gunther Schmidt, Ortwin Meiss, and more)
  • body- and trauma-therapy
    (soma and haptic gamma embodyment; WieTra, Wiesbaden; somatic experiencing)
  • mediation and conflict facilitation
    (amongst others at Business Mediation Center; Zweisicht)
  • personality-, development- and ressource- focussed methods, psychodynamic and humanistic approaches (Zist, Penzberg and more)

This multitude of methods enables me to tackle and cope with the whole scope of personal situations and conditions and, depending on the predefined goals of our collaboration, to touch my clients on 'deeper' levels normally not accessible in a typical coaching or a similar procedure. I can draw on these methods as well as on the contents and my experiences from years of leadership training and human resource development - a rare combination, ultimately.