I am a dedicated advocate of lifelong learning. I firmly believe that remaining curious, discovering new things and learning new skills not only broadens your horizon, but also keeps your mind flexible and open.

Therefore, in addition to my profession as a systemic organizational consultant and author, I have worked with great dedication for four years on a project in the field of intervention research. My research work has dealt with topics that are personally important to me: holistic health, social sustainability and economic ethics.

But I am also a very spiritual person, a trained energy therapist and medicine woman, and over several decades I have been able to gather extensive knowledge from many different traditions. As the owner of a small farm and an ambitious gardener, I also have a very special connection to nature and its rhythms.

How to lead a MEANINGful life

I enjoy working with people and do so frequently.

One question has always been particularly close to my heart: how can we – even in a social and economic system that exhibits its share of pathological traits – find a profession, or better still a calling, that fills us with meaning? Because a meaningful life is a happier life.

However, many people try in vain to wring deeper purpose from their professional lives. They are happy to settle for prestige, influence or simply money, without questioning the emptiness that inevitably sets in at some point if there is not a single aspect of life that brings inner satisfaction. In our Western society, we have also lost our very own access to the mystical and transcendent, which gives us strength and meaning and through which we find ethical support and answers to the ‘big questions of the universe’.

In my work as an executive coach and consultant, I have repeatedly encountered successful managers who are burnt out. But I have also worked with young people who did not know whether and in what form they wanted to embark on a career in the future, when they could clearly see that it brought little real satisfaction to anyone in their circle.

Ultimately, we all ask ourselves the same questions: Does it all make sense? What can I get excited about? What is my life’s work, my PURPOSE? How can I lead a meaningful life?

And above all:

What makes me really happy?

Many people cannot find the right answers to these questions.

Coaching is an excellent method that can encourage self-reflection. However, on its own, in many areas it does not reveal our deepest needs.
This is why I have sought ways to incorporate the individual and collective subconscious into this process and to take into account our deeply human need for rituals and ceremonies.

Innovative trance techniques

The trance techniques I am working with are an excellent tool to fully tap into this invaluable resource. Indigenous Medicine Women and Men already had that knowledge long before modern communication and interviewing techniques were developed. We are so much more than simply a body and a mind (that dualism fatefully introduced by Rene Descartes) – we are also emotions and we are beings of energy searching for our place in a greater order. This is what I learned from my spiritual teachers and I owe them at least as many insights into the topic of meaning as I owe the academic world.

To combine the old and the new, intellect and emotion but also the physical and the metaphysical in order to support people in finding their calling and in their self-development on all levels – this is what gives me a purpose.