Profile: Christl is living in Munich near the river Isar together with her 16-year-old son.

Christl is graduated in sciences of sociology, psychology and communications. She is also educated and trained in methods of family therapy, project management and process facilitation and methods of facilitating large group processes.

She was trained in Open Space Technology by Harrison Owen 1998 and afterwards by Birgitt Williams and appreciates this form of communication as a deeply democratic one, helping people to express and develop their own ideas and needs together with others in a participatory, creative and responsible way.

For 8 years she worked with clients with psychiatric disease and their families in a service of social psychiatry.

She engages herself in self-organized projects, e.g. founded a kindergarten-initiative.

Since 1990 she began her work for the health services of the City of Munich. She is promoting healthy living circumstances and creating possibilities together with people to live healthy. The bigger context of this work is the world wide Healthy Cities Project of the WHO, which says, people are most healthy when they can decide themselves how they want to live. So, in her work in Munich (especially for children and youngsters) her focus lies on participation. She is enhancing health projects working with the potential and possibilities of people, volunteers as well as social services and companies.

As free lanced trainer she works with the administration of cities and non-profit volunteers-organizations as facilitator of large group processes (especially OST, story telling and Future Workshops) and is coaching processes of participation and activation of citizens.

Christl is convinced that participatory processes are the healthiest way for individuals, organizations and the society. She is convinced as well that people themselves are precious experts for their living circumstances and problems and have got all they need to solve these problems (and that politicians and organizations should use this capacity). Therefore she is interested to help people to unfold their capacities.

Her new focus lies on enhancing health and balance within organizations using the participatory method of Birgitt. So as first organization she took herself to improve her personal health and balance as well as the organization she is working in.

If you are interested in
∑ improving your health and balance – personally as well as together with the organization you work in or
∑ want to work with Open Space Technology or WPPF
∑ like to hear more about the way Birgitt is working, please contact me