About

I have been walking a rather alternative path to mainstream society (aka the “normal regime”) since my young adult years. Originally from Germany, I live on a remote island in Panama, the home of my husband, where we run a small family tourism business (Surf&Chill Bastimentos). The decision to unschool our three sons led me to a strong curiosity about alternative approaches to education, career, and success, as well as to deep personal inner work.

I have recently found an online home in the Conscious Tribes Community. (It’s free to join, check it out!) This online community was created by ConsciousU, and I’m now also working as the editor of their newsletter.

On my personal journey, these tools have been of great support to me:

• Reclamation work as developed by Peter Koenig
• GTDF Collective’s pedagogical tools (Hospicing Modernity)
• The Work of Byron Katie
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• deschooling
• meditation and Effortless Mindfulness
• awareness of embodiment
• awareness of neurobiology

I love to continuously learn new things and to share my knowledge with others.

I find it very helpful to be in community – online as well as physical – to exchange ideas and to practise openness, honesty and compassion.
And I also love to spend time in solitude and silent contemplation, listening to what’s going on inside me, and practising some tools on my own.

Sometimes my life seems very simple, and sometimes it seems utterly complicated – and that’s ok.

My favourite place to be is surrounded by the natural and more-than-human world – whether it is on a mountain, in the forest, at a lake, river, waterfall, or the beach.

Courses and trainings I have participated in:

• DEIB Coaching Programme CU*belong (Feb-May 2025)
• Online Course on Solution Focused Brief Therapy SFBT Diamond Level 1 Certification (started Feb 2025)
• Personal Development Programme CU*money (teaching projection/reclamation work as developed by Peter Koenig) (Sept-Dec 2023)
• Online Course IFS Online Circle by the IFS Institute (Oct 2022–April 2023)
• Workshop Exploring The Survive/Thrive Spiral – Internal Family Systems and Polyvagal Theory with Ruth Culver (Oct 2022)
• Workshop Series Direct Access – An Essential IFS Skill with Fran Booth (Sept/Oct 2022)
• Master Class: Experience IFS in Action with Complex Trauma and PTSD with Richard Schwartz (April-June 2022)
• Training as Psychologische Beraterin (Mental Health Coach) at ALH-Akademie (April 2021–March 2022)

… plus countless hours of autodidactic education in neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, IFS, Brainspotting, The Work of Byron Katie, deschooling, Attachment Parenting, Evolutionary Parenting, adultism, Critical Whiteness, diversity awareness, decolonialisation, sensitivity reading, embodiment, homeopathy, and much more.