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:
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.