ABOUT
Meet me
I’ve always been drawn to the question of how we live —
not just in practical terms, but in how we make sense of ourselves and the world we are part of.
Growing up in Germany, I often felt slightly out of step with what seemed to be taken for granted. Many of the ideas and expectations I encountered felt too limited for the kinds of questions I was grappling with.
This led me first into the arts.
I studied autonomous art in the Netherlands, exploring identity and experience through creative work outside conventional frameworks. It opened a lot — but also revealed its own limits.
At a certain point, I felt the need to go further.
That brought me to Oxford, where I completed an interdisciplinary Master’s in social sculpture — a field influenced by Joseph Beuys, where life itself is approached as a creative, participatory process.
This was a turning point.
It gave me a language for something I had already been sensing:
that how we think, feel, and act is not separate from the world we are part of —
but part of how that world takes shape.
After my studies, I stayed in that environment for several years —
teaching, facilitating, researching, working on a PhD, and co-developing a social enterprise initiated by Shelley Sacks.
This included working with individuals and groups in participatory processes, as well as contributing to teaching and training contexts.
Through this, I developed a practical understanding of how inner and outer change are connected —
not as an idea, but as something that can be worked with in real situations.
At the same time, my personal and professional life became increasingly intertwined — and eventually began to unravel.
This period was difficult — and formative.
It confronted me with the limits of ideas and frameworks,
and brought me into direct contact with what it actually means to live through change —
not as a concept, but as an experience that reorganises how you see, think, and act.
After leaving that context, I went through a period of profound reorientation.
Many of the structures that had shaped my life — both personally and professionally — fell away or changed in unexpected ways. At times, even my sense of reality itself became less stable and more fluid than I had been used to.
This phase was challenging, but also formative.
It required me to engage directly with uncertainty, without relying on familiar frameworks or external reference points — and to find ways of staying grounded while everything else was in motion.
During this time, I continued to explore different ways of working — facilitating smaller processes, engaging in new contexts, and gradually finding a direction that felt more my own.
At the same time, I trained as a systemic coach, adding another layer of practical structure to what I had already been developing through my earlier work.
Since then, my work has become more grounded.
Less about applying ideas,
and more about engaging with what is present —
including uncertainty, tension, and the unknown.
Today, I work with people who find themselves in similar places:
- at thresholds between roles, identities, or phases of life
- in situations that are complex, shifting, or difficult to navigate
- or in moments where something new is beginning to take shape, without yet being fully clear
This often includes people in positions of responsibility —
in their work, their organisations, or their lives —
who sense that their usual ways of thinking, deciding, or leading are no longer sufficient.
But not only.
At its core, this work is about how you relate to yourself and to the situations you are part of —
something that could be described as a form of self-leadership,
not as a technique, but as an ongoing way of engaging with life.
What we work with is not only the situation itself,
but how you are in it.
How you perceive, relate, and respond —
and how this can change.
My approach combines:
- experiential awareness
- creative and reflective processes
- and a focus on real situations and real decisions
I am also trained as a systemic coach — one element within a broader way of working.
Sometimes I refer to this as working with aliveness —
not as a concept to adopt,
but as something that can be experienced directly in how you think, relate, and act.
What matters most to me is not applying a fixed method,
but meeting each situation as it is —
and working with you from there.
First Conversation
If you already have a sense that this could be relevant for you,
you can explore how I work and what I offer.
From there, you can start a conversation.