Culture-sensitive systemic coaching
Coaching for people abroad
Year
since 2018
Type
Coach und Beraterin
Location
worldwide
Description
For many years I have been working in international contexts, in personnel cooperation and civil peace service, in humanitarian aid and at universities. I lived in Peru with my family, working in church adult education. Since then I engaged in coaching and consulting of development and peace workers.
The systemic approach says that we as individuals are part of a larger whole that shapes us and to which we are connected. Systemic counseling and coaching therefore focuses on us and our living environment: our origins and family, culture and religion, nature and society, life and work. When we place ourselves in these contexts, our self-perception changes and our options for action expand. We become capable of shaping opportunities and difficulties in our lives from a broader perspective. We live and act from a secure center because we know who we are.
I have reflected on my experiences as a coach for international professionals in the final thesis of my systemic training 2019-2022 at the Würzburg Institute for Systemic Thinking and Action.
Feedback
“Coaching helped me through the difficult time of the Covid lockdown on assignment. I arrived in my destination country and had to spend 2 weeks in a hotel. After that, I could only work from home. The stress and loneliness and the feeling of not arriving at all were stressful. Katharina’s support always showed me what I could do and gave me courage. Returning to Germany before my contract ended, was also well prepared thanks to the coaching.“
“Working in a high risk context the practical tools to reduce stress helped me a lot.”
“I appreciated the mixture of methodology (role finding, work organization) and flexibility. Katharina’s familiarity with Latin America, development cooperation and family on the job helped me to integrate my own situation. I often felt liberated after the coaching sessions.”