We live in a time of extreme polarization and our societal cohesion and alignment – the main success factor to get anything done as humans – is crumbling. What are the places where we experience us as one humanity, regardless of our opinions, believes, political positions or inclinations? For me, one of the most…
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Two months ago I felt the strong call to go to Costa Rica. I could come up with all kind of rational explanations and logical reasoning why I had to go. From how unbearable the atmosphere in Berlin after one year of lockdown has become and how everything I loved the city for has been suppressed…
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Why Being Powerful Is The Most Vulnerable Act Language shapes our reality in more ways than we are aware of. Like a fish in the water, the words we use define our experience of the world without us consciously noticing it. So in this article I’ll explore how we can become more aware of…
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How To Put Your Affirmations On Steroids Why am I not excited about life? Why do I have so little energy to do anything? Why can’t I create the fulfillment and abundance I long for? It is not long ago that this kind of self-doubt and negativity dominated my mental tapestry. In many ways…
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Last week I sent a proposal to a corporate client for a six month leadership coaching package. Then the corona panic hit in and I received an email that all decisions have been put on halt and we cannot proceed with the coaching. My first impulse was to write something back along the lines of:…
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I recently came across the concept of job one and job two: The concept resonated strongly with my observation and proves useful because of it’s simplicity. It creates an immediate reaction of recognition in many people who I speak with in the corporate world. And while there’s an intuitive understanding that we are wasting…
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What we can learn from nature is that every organism has its own rhythm. Everything goes through seasons. Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring. And all elements of the cycle have their distinct qualities: Growth, Crisis, Collapse, Renaissance Before we can move into the rebirth of the new story we need to create space for the collapse…
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There is a strange beauty and joy resulting from uncovering my avoidance strategies and allowing myself to feel the feelings behind them more fully. As I elaborated on in an earlier post I can trace back quite a lot of symptoms and tensions in my current reality back to my youth where I had a…
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In recent weeks I have become ever more painfully aware of my many special modes of avoidance when it comes to feeling myself fully. One of them was and still is especially scary to let go of: My hope that things would get better sometime in the future. A particular difficult episode in my…
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We are currently experiencing a time where those who are sensitive to it open up like never before to a vast pool of accumulated pain in their bodies/systems. Fractal in it’s nature, this is a vessel of trauma that reaches deep into the collective but also always finds some representation and expression in our individual…
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