As a facilitator, I am guided by an attitude that is critical of power, body-oriented, trauma-informed and queer-affirming. I am East German, from a poverty-class background with a class journey that has remained precarious, white, goy and non-binary transfeminine, neurocomplex and living with chronic illnesses. My pronouns are: she/her and they/them/Gregöre.
This is a trans*, inter*, non-binary, agender and queer friendly space. BIPoC and Jewish people are especially welcome.
Background
2024 to 2026: Training in Sexological Bodywork at the Institut für somatisches Lernen, Sexualität und Körperarbeit Berlin
2023: Kristina Hahn Prize of the Systemische Gesellschaft for the project “Polyrhythms for queer refugees”, together with Ali Schwartz and Matthias Schirmer.
2023 to 2025: Co-lead of the training “Transformative Mediation” at the Institut für Systemische Lösungsansätze and the Synapse Kollektiv Berlin
2022: Intensive course Transformative Leadership with Jay Keim and Elisabeth Yupanqui Werner
2022: Waltraud Schiffels Prize for Trans Empowerment for the “Praxisgruppe Klassismus und trans*inter*nicht-binär” (practice group on classism and trans*inter*non-binary)
2020 to 2021: Year-long group on Critical Whiteness, Anti-Racism and Power Sharing (Timo Galbenis-Kiesel)
2019 to 2020: Certified mediation training at zwischen*räume Leipzig
2019 to 2020: Training “Die Zukunft wird verspielt” in theater-based educational processes at t.time-trainings
since 2019: Self-employed in mediation, group process facilitation, political education (classism, digital violence and safety) and individual and group support, mainly for queer people and/or people with refugee experience
2007 to 2013: Studies in Political Science and Philosophy at TU Dresden and the Institut d’Études Politiques Lyon
Get in touch if you want to work through past boundary violations and violence caused in relationships, groups and communities, using somatic approaches and aiming at long-term accountability. I work with approaches from transformative justice, generative somatics, centered accountability, anti-discrimination work and systemic practice.
My understanding of conflict is a transformative one: conflicts change us and our relationships and can be a way into understanding, responsibility and change. I accompany individuals, teams, collectives and political groups, mostly in queer, left and self-organized contexts. I work in a multipartial, power-critical and trauma-sensitive way and create a space where perspectives become visible, listening becomes possible again and decisions can emerge together.
I also accompany couples and polycules when something has gotten stuck, is changing or needs to be renegotiated.
I support groups and organizations in consciously shaping communication, roles and collaboration, using facilitation, systemic counseling, consensus decision-making and body work. Every accompaniment is tailor-made.
In workshops I work, for example, on classism and positionality, digital violence and safety, co-regulation in times of crisis, and protection and allyship for trans, inter, non-binary and agender people.
For births, weddings or deaths, there are people, institutions and rituals. For transitions in transition processes, these are mostly missing or made invisible. I accompany you somatically, queerly and in a trauma-informed way when you take such a step. Not because I have the answers or know what this step means to you, but because some things deserve a special space: a body, a counterpart who joins in and resonates.
This can mean, for example:
Whether once, as a gift or over years: It is your space.
I also accompany gender-more-conforming people on the topics and tensions listed above, if they want to engage with them consciously.
I work with body awareness, breath, movement, questions and, if you want it, touch as well. My approach is somatic and systemic, oriented towards generative somatics, political somatics and the Wheel of Consent.
We start with a non-binding get-to-know-you conversation. After that I suggest ways forward, and you see what feels right, what you want to try and what you do not. You set the pace, you can say no, take a break or stop at any time, and touch only happens after clear agreement.
My work is not psychotherapy and not medical treatment. I do not make diagnoses and I do not promise healing.