Born in 1967 in the North of Germany with a long lineage of ancesters from that region.
I have been interested already in social change since my childhood. But neither studying social sciences, history, international relations or the activism of non-governmental organizations nurtured my longing - only NVC did eventually.

2004 I encountered Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and met Marshall Rosenberg in Switzerland. Since then, I learned especially from Beate Ronnefeldt, Markus Sikor/Fischer, Kelly Bryson, Monika Flörchinger, Laurence Reichler, and many others.

Since 2009 I run yearlong NVC programs around Lake Constance. I love supporting people for some years in their personal (and sometimes also professional) development, offering also "Facilitation & Training", "Empathic Coaching," "NVC Mediation," and "NVC Leadership."

Apart from trainings, I facilitate, I coach and mediate — and support social organizations in team development or organizational development.

I have been trained in NARM (Therapy of Developmental Trauma) a couple of years with Laurence Heller and have studied with Thomas Hübl (Transparent Communication & Integration of Collective Trauma) since 2008 (TWT1, Pocket Project, CTFT).

Beginning 2025 I will start a tour to do workshops on "NVC and (Collective)Trauma" (in German). I like to share and explore withs other how important (integrating) trauma is in our lives, what being trauma informed and trauma sensitive means, and how all this relates to NVC.  

I currently follow a project to research and lecture about the "Roots of NVC" (in  German). I continually publish the lectures as podcast first (see https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wurzelndergfk) and plan to write a book about it in 2025/26. By the way, these are the one's I looked at (with date of birth):

1869 Mahatma Gandhi

1878 Martin Buber 

1900 Erich Fromm

1902 Carl Rogers 

1905 Viktor Frankl 

1905 Dag Hammarskjöld

1906 Hannah Arendt

1908 Abraham Maslow

1921 Paulo Freire

1928 Gene Sharp

1929 Martin Luther King Jr.

1931 Riane Eisler 

1932 Manfred Max-Neef

1933 Stanley Milgram 

-----------1934 Marshall B. Rosenberg (as reference)

1935 Walter Wink

1957 Alfie Kohn