I was brought up in a multi-cultural setting, by a Polish mother, a German father who grew up in South America and many Au-pairs from across the globe. This has sparked my curiosity for different ways of seeing the world and shaped me into someone who loves bringing together different cultures and embraces diversity. Shaped by my academic background, a BA in European Studies and an MA  in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy I started my work life with a  desire to address the extreme inequalities I learned about and witnessed through transforming our political, economic and social systems. Throughout my 10+ years of work experience in social enterprises, tech start ups and civil society organisations, working on a wide range of topics including migration issues, sustainable food systems and local currencies, I came to understand that what is preventing change has a lot to do with our inner worlds-  our belief systems, our world views and the dominant paradigms.

So I undertook a journey into the inner realms of psyche and soul, studying yoga, process oriented psychology, permaculture, deep ecology, coaching and collective leadership. I call it a journey of unlearning, remembering and rewilding.  This journey guided me towards slowing down, spending a lot of time in nature and embarking on a wilderness vision quest (or rite of passage). Here I discovered my passion for this work and decided to become a guide. I've become increasingly interested in reclaiming community rituals and rites of passage in our modern Western societies as a way of making meaning collectively and maturing into responsible humans. This journey of unlearning has also brought me to the insight that equally important as what we do in the world is how we bring ourselves into the world and how we relate to each other. This resulted in a collective action-research with the CitizensLab around how to nourish a culture of care and kinship. I am interested in how we can not just talk about values such as mutual care, community, kinship and reciprocity but how we can live them, practice them and thereby build a culture around them, which remains an ongoing challenge.

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For the past years, I have been working as a freelancer, seeking to stitch together the inner and outer worlds and weaving together various projects that all share the common thread of coming into right relations with life.  I currently focus on my work as Germany Activation Lead at The Week. You can learn more about my professional path on Linked In and read more about my philosophy, my methods, my teachers and my educational path below.