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I help you to shift, change and transform the way you operate by understanding first how you do what you do, and by uncovering what is already there to refine and attune anew.

… to be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others… 

David Whyte

Leadership Coaching provides you with both in-depth support and a safe space to explore personal and professional issues. Together we explore the root cause of current and recurring challenges and discover what you need to find new strengths and capacities to embody your unique leadership potential. You will gain clarity, a deeper understanding of your own dynamics and tangible tools to move with more agility through your daily life.

How it works

In a leadership coaching session, I offer a caring dialog to uncover your personal questions and current challenges. Together we peel back the layers to reach a deeper sense and understanding of what is at stake, and the deeper dynamics that are at play. Together we investigate “What is the next gentle step that allows the necessary shift to happen?”.

I offer in-person or online sessions for professional, family or personal contexts.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

R. Buckminster Fuller

These times are too complex to expect that one single leader can show us the best way forward. Today we need new embodied practices of shared leadership to tap into our collective intelligence and wisdom. Only by bringing the most diverse perspectives together can we see and understand the best steps toward our common goals, our shared humanity.

Shared leadership practices allow us to build collective health by serving from and transcending our individual perspectives. Shared leadership builds group capacities to collaborate and organize with agility, trust and respect for both the individual and the whole, on the short and the long term.

How it works

A “Shared Leadership” program is customized for each team, network or organisation, depending on the context, the needs of the participants and the collective learning edges. Together we explore questions such as:

• “How do I/we embody leadership as individuals and as a whole?”
• “What are my/our unique potentials and contributions and what are the learning edges?”
• “What are the leadership style that are required for the times we life in – in our communities, work and private life?”
• “How is power held and stewarded from a conscious place?”

As we dive into these questions, we simultaneously hold space for crucial and potentially uncomfortable conversations and the challenges that the group shares. Together we create prototypes that embody the experience of a participatory culture of leadership.

The work is meant for people and organisations who face leadership challenges and who want and dare to learn new ways that are aligned to oneself, the team and the larger context. The work serves as a retreat to deepen internal coherence and nurture collective clarity to see the path ahead, together.

 The world is not to be put in order, the world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

Henry Miller

Systemic Constellation work provides an effective way to revitalise relationships by illuminating pressing personal, professional and collective issues. The process is particularly useful when the source of the issue or the solution is not clear, where previous attempts to change have not endured or where there is a sense of being stuck.  

It is a practical method that can be used in a range of ways to create fresh insights and clarity about situations and dynamics that have previously been vexing.

How it works

The constellation begins with a dialogue that clarifies the intention and identifies the guiding question or intention.

We then use the guiding question to create a visible map of the issues at hand. By making the inter-relations of sometimes intertwined issues visible, we get fresh perspectives on complex challenges that had previously appeared to be intractable. The living map – either with representatives or objects – allows you to see and understand underlying dynamics and patterns that both limit and resource projects, leaders, teams, organizations and the wider system. Once these are made conscious it allows the whole to relax more fully. When we can see the hidden forces at play, it becomes easier to identify new paths to long-lasting resolutions and health.

Systemic Constellation supports:

• An understanding of issues that seem to block our life, work or project flow
• A clear view of what is actually required at the next stage
• The capacity to work more consciously with the living systems we are a part of
• The liberation of potential and resource flow in both people and the work place

and

• The ability to act in the world with a sense of integrity and alignment.

I offer in-person and online sessions that focus on individual, organizational and/or collective issues and challenges.

Sessions can be either one-on-one or with a group, depending on the topic and its charge.

I give training to learn and deepen the approach of systemic constellation, especially with a focus on collective and societal issues.

The success of an intervention depends on the inner condition of the intervener.

Bill O’Brien, former CEO, Hanover Insurance

Meaningful group conversations that lead to shared understanding and coherence are dependent on trust and a feeling of safety between participants.  I facilitate teams, organisations, networks, communities and regions to co-discover their shared common ground, to see their diversity of perspectives as a richness, and to co-create effective collective strategies that can be implemented with ease and clarity.

Applications for facilitation are wide-reaching – from conference and team meetings, to collaborative networking days and participatory community engagements, to retreats and thematic explorations.

How it works

We start by clarifying your overarching intention and by naming the topics and conversations that need to be addressed before and during the facilitated event and process. We identify who needs to be involved so that the it can be as inclusive, successful and cross-sectorial as possible.

My approach is informed and nurtured by Art of Hosting and Art of Participatory Leadership. I employ the Fourfold Path, World Café, Open Space Technology, Deep Circle Practice, Theory U, Dragon Dreaming and other collaborative, participative and regenerative practices.

Stewardship is to hold something in trust for another.

Peter Block

Many organisations, teams, communities and regions find themselves in a transition between a known way of being and doing that doesn’t seem to work any longer and a new, still unknown paradigm. Between these two polarities there is a wide-open gap that is filled with curiosity and uncertainty, emergence and multiple unknowns, and often also disruptive confusion.

Navigating through these transitions and embracing the complexity that comes with them requires artistry. It requires the capacity to honour what was, and the ability to grow beyond the known to meet the future with shared responsibility, care and awareness for the inter-connectedness of life itself.

I accompany groups during these times of transition to ensure inclusion of the whole system. I support the cultivation of building vital relationships that assist the whole group to step up to healthy, lasting outcomes for all.

How it works

We start by unpacking and understanding the current state. Together we make meaning of what has happened to get you where you are, reaching back as far as needed. Then, with a shared understanding of the multiple layers of “truth” of what’s under the surface we cultivate the new foundation and soil in which to plant new pathways forward.

Deep listening, reconciliation movements and un/re-learning cycles of how we want to collaborate are a crucial part of this process. We use these tools to expand our capacity to drop judgment and separation between you and me, us and them. We start to train our collective muscles to operate as a coherent ecological system, with boundaries that are more fluent, agile and transparent. We learn to shift the thriving source from one or the other’s opinion to a shared attention and intention that builds the health of the whole.

This process draws upon diverse methods and is informed by a shared leadership, living systems and regenerative perspective. I invite the group to recognize the deeper patterns at play. I help heal and restore the past and re-organize the ways the group works together. Because the work is transformative, we work in phases. Because it is inclusive, we work with both individual as well as collective issues.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Rainer Marie Rilke

For individuals

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

Barbara Tayler Bradford

Healing is a natural part of evolution. Healing is about caring for and releasing the tension of what has been broken, shaken, frozen or misaligned so that inherent health can re-emerge. Healing is about forgiving and re-claiming our connection to life itself.

By reactivating, enhancing and strengthening our own healing-powers we can restore diverse forms of imbalance sensitively and appropriately. We start by looking for the right entry points, be they emotional, mental, physical or spiritual. Together we restore the natural health of individuals or family systems.

Healing and Trauma release provides you access to your own inner capacity of agility, confidence and natural health. This sets the stage for unlocking your unique potential and gifts. It encourages and empowered you to learn to share your uniqueness within a larger context.

How it works

Within a safe and gentle space, we deeply listen to the whole system and its diverse stories. I employ Cranio-Sacral therapy, Trauma therapy and holistic healing to conduct a gentle inquiry into what has happened and what your body is trying to tell us about it now. What is the invitation we are being sent? How can we best lean into this message?

Healing and Trauma work allows us to meet the present and the future with a more open and grounded attitude. Together we sensitively listen to the pain and what lies underneath. We learn, step by step, to reactivate healthy patterns in your body, mind and heart. Acknowledging what was, letting go of what no longer serves us, and opening to the new allows you to experience a new freedom and state of centeredness.

For groups & communities

A living system is defined not by the individual parts, but by the relationships between them. The flow of energy.

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How it works

It is very common for teams, groups and communities to experience tensions, misunderstanding and conflicts. Often it looks as if one person or a sub-group is the source of the “problem”.  Too often such a belief leads us to fall in to a pattern of “us versus them”, which creates an even bigger sense of disconnect and fragmentation.

Yet every conflict is an invitation to look deeper – together – to understand what is really needed to find a new balance and heal as a whole.

Healing and Trauma work for groups is based on the understanding that what shows up in an individual is a mirror of the collective as much as the collective is a mirror for the individuals. Very often disruptive patterns and behaviours that play out in the group are rooted in age-old wounds being carried along. These wounds and traumas actually just look for a place where they can be seen and recognized. Yet very often we are not aware of them. If these wounds have not been acknowledged and somehow healed, they will keep coming to the surface and knock on our doors. They return not to harm us, but to be released by us.

I help release these recurring patterns with deep circle dialogue, Systemic Constellation work, restorative justice and/or Collective Healing work. Together we gently peel the layers away from the root of the unbalance and disruption. We reconcile and restore, forgive and honour, drop assumptions and judgments and steadily re-align as individuals and as a collective. With a bit of time, and informed by care and respect, a new pathway, a new clarity, and a new and shared story emerges.