Principles of my work
What holds my work together.
And what makes them different.
Sound on several levels
Bringing together what belongs together.
Consulting has become very differentiated: In therapy and coaching, supervision and team development, organizational development and training. I understand these different playing fields as professionalizing perspectives that actually belong together: Organizational development also needs a view for people and their inner world, the team developer a lens for the grammar of the organization. The coach the ability to recognize deeper psychological movements and the mediator a sense of the movements that have nothing to do with the current content. For me, this means that a consultant is only as good as he or she is able to accompany different flight levels in a well-founded manner. I therefore work with complementary specializations that remain connectable through common principles and a unifying framework.
For you, this means that regardless of the setting, you have the choice of where we look so that you can clarify and explore what is essential to you
Improvise well prepared.
What people do is per se alive and that also means: ultimately unpredictable. Good preparation is then only one part. The other is to keep your ear to the track and use the visible and imperceptible responses of a living system as a starting point for next steps. And thus to do some justice to the inherent cleverness of such systems.
Complexity and precision
Deep Dives
Dive to the core of the issues.
The problems that give rise to counseling are often just symptoms of a deeper movement taking place a few floors below. We look at what else is in the way of organic movement. We are more concerned with the stones that guide the current than with the surface of the water. Together we go closer to the core of things, mindful and respectful of inner and outer boundaries, trying to understand more deeply what is actually going on. And if we give it a little more room, what is actually possible can often emerge.
The good reason that we don't see.
What we call problems are often solutions from times that were difficult. When this becomes more tangible, tension in the system turns into strength for the next step. One could also say: Development becomes more likely where it is less prevented. This also means that in consultations we often dig less of a riverbed than we lift trees out of the stream together. This creates more self-coherence: becoming more like yourself and investing less energy in internal friction. This in turn brings more liveliness, coherence and freedom of choice. Because a space is created in which there is room for both old and new solutions.
Getting closer to yourself
Regulation of the nervous system
Helping to shape the invisible.
Much of what we experience is based on dynamics below the threshold of consciousness. Stress and perceived intensity often has to do with escalation patterns of the nervous system that are consciously invisible but powerfully effective. Hypnotherapy provides a finely tuned language that activates unconscious parts in a helpful way and turns them into coalition partners of conscious thinking. Body-oriented trauma therapy goes one step deeper and helps to stimulate and restore regulation of the nervous system itself. This has an enormous effect on the whole organism, often bringing more strength and clarity, contact with oneself and others. As a result, people become more responsive from within. In a word: more resilient.
Clarify - and do.
After the consultation comes everyday life — and even when we dive deep, we resurface. We work within a clear framework over several months, so that we don’t just see each other at individual appointments, but can keep an eye on larger movements over time and reflect on them together. We take into account where topics develop organically and where processes appear to remain unchanged. Where this seems helpful, we use the power of the will to make clear, personal and sometimes courageous decisions. We trust that inner changes have a natural effect on concrete life and clarify what is needed when something stands in the way of this movement.
Implementation orientation
Real Now.
Transformation through presence.
Real presence — a noticing of phenomena with sufficient space in which the experience can take place — has a transformative quality. This principle is the basis of entire schools of trauma therapy because it is so effective. Where an experience in embodied presence becomes more perceptible and tangible, the developmental movement that has been created begins all by itself. The challenge here is that not all elements are visible: It is an essential part of so-called problems that some of the causes remain in the dark. The fact that we don’t have to change this, but work with a basic respect for this — in my view always clever — dynamic, clears the way for topics to unfold anew on their own. The movement arises as soon as we give space to what prevents it.
