About me
Born and raised in Germany, I worked, studied and lived in various countries across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in countries as varied as Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Jordan, Lebanon and South Africa from 2006 until 2019. I worked as project and program manager, trainer and consultant in the realm of peacebuilding and conflict transformation for national and international NGOs and the United Nations. In 2014,
In 2014, I expanded my work to include nonviolent communication and conflict transformation with children for parents and those working in the educational realm. My work is interdisciplinary; I integrate latest findings of developmental psychology, neuroscience, behavioural psychology, nonviolent communication, conflict transformation and personal development. Working with mothers has become part of my work with parents.
In 2019, I became a mother and moved back to Germany from where I travel internationally to continue my work as freelance trainer, coach and consultant in international peace and conflict work, as well as nonviolent communication and conflict resolution with children.
My working languages are English, German and Arabic.
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Qualifications
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Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Jurisprudence, University of Erfurt, Germany
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Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
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Training in Conflict Transformation, as trainer and consultant/advisor, Responding to Conflict, United Kingdom and Libya, und Academy for Conflict Transformation, Cologne, Germany
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Training of Trainers, Institute of Leadership and Management, United Kingdom and Amman, Jordan
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Brain-based Life and Business Coach (Supervision), NeuroLeadership Institute, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Further training and qualifications (excerpt): Nonviolent Communication; Conflict Sensitivity; Intercultural Communication; Nonviolent Conflict Transformation and Communication for Teachers and Educators; Team-Building, -Development and Leadership; Self-Care, Stress-Management and Resilience; Psychodrama; Trauma and the Nervous System, Mother Circle​
"We build peace in the world by building peace in ourselves and in our families, and if we allow our children to be and become fully who they are - as citizens of Planet Earth."
My Motivation
I would like to help parents, teachers and educators and everyone living and working with children understand the consequences of abuse, threats, punishment and violence. I want to enable them to, on the one hand, communicate non-violently with children and youth to allow them grow up with healthy, attachment- and needs-oriented and peaceful relationships, and, on the other hand, enable them to teach children how to resolve conflicts non-violently from a young age.
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The aim of my work is to make it possible for children and youth to grow up without violence and to enable them to resolve conflicts nonviolently from an early age, and thus make a contribution to a world in which violence is no longer a legitimate means to resolve conflicts, a world in which all people can live together in peace - so that we all grow close and grow together.