Being human
But how?
My whole life
has become
focused on
this most
fundamental
of questions
It is my mission to create a deeper social understanding of trauma and its transformative power.
Rooted deep in my essence is the question: “How can things go on with us as humankind?” It is quite evident that some things cannot “go on”. We experience increasing polarisation and conflicts of opinion. In our search for answers, what would we find if we were to dive deeper?
Can it be that our sensitivity as human beings is much finer than we have hitherto known? Can it be that we are far more trustworthy than we believe one another to be? Can it be that, in our struggles, we always just painfully run up against ourselves instead of “the other”?
How do we find again our courage and conviction to live our true passion, our unbroken love for each other and for this planet which is our home?
Even before the question, “How can things go on with us as humankind?” comes the very individual question: “How can it go on with me?” Do you live like a human being should? What does this actually mean? Would you like to discover what it means for you?
What does your nervous system need? What do you need as a relational being? What does your soul need? What do you wish to bring to the world? What about your broken connection with God? I am here to foster your artistic soul – that fine, brilliant, wild side of you, that wishes for nothing more than to give of itself – and yet is so vulnerable!
Clarity, humour and profound know-how. With Becoming Essence, you can find the courage to look deep inside yourself. Supported by powers that go far beyond what you are. Together, let us “return to GO!”.
BE = Becoming Essence
My offer
Life is complex. And we experience it often in fragmentation. What the different fields of personal growth, science, politics, economy, arts and civil society being addressed on this page connects is our humanness.
Can we establish a new and sustainable trust into us as humanity?
The integration of the collective and individual trauma in our nervous systems, the growth into integrity in our relationships and the reconnection with our deeper inner wisdom is a promising start for
“A good life for all” .
Be individual
Trauma is the elixir of life
Becoming Essence for your personal growth:
~ Healing process work – your individual pearl dive
~ “The Golden Key” – new relational experiences in your BE community
~ Going in lead – your Masterclass “The Art of Pearl Diving”
Be corporate
Ground your genius
BecomingEssence for entrepreneurs, politicians and organisations:
~ Individual: process work in your pearl dive “world aware leadership”
~ Systemic: Gap facilitation in change processes
~ Corporate resilience: deep designs for your “mission to earth”
Be creative
Ride the wave
Becoming Essence moves the world:
~ Water Festival Freiburg – transforming ocean plastics
~ Global Female Envisioning – improving our impact!
~ Shame gourmet? – rehabilitation of a disregarded deeply human feeling
~ Integrity For Future – a call to action
Water Festival Freiburg
where future happens
Transforming ocean plastics – the Water Festival Freiburg is based on your burning future question. Water Innovation Lab, Water Citizen Lab, Gap Arts Lounge and the Water Celebration Night are the fundamental parts of the yearly summer event.
Pearl-Diver MOVIES
Let yourself be moved
Video-sharing with personal insights and experiences out of a “life in connection”. In my Pearl Diver Interviews interesting people take a seat on my “yellow couch”.
Forum Courage
Courageous Action
Economics, politics, the personal – where in your enterprise courageous action is needed and how can it succeed? The compact workshop format “Leading change in a fragile world” is a cooperation between Zukunftsmoderation! Henrik Langholf & friends and the BecomingEssence FEEL & THINK TANK.
Becoming Essence – My invitation (in German)
BE individual – Carina S.| artist (in German)
At home in many dimensions
Trauma expert, pioneer, facilitator
My profound questioning of human existence has accompanied me since my very first breath. Perhaps because, at my birth, I stared for a few moments into the face of dying; today, I would say that I have seen God. Every day, I am in the presence of both aspects. As an introverted child, I explored the borderland primarily in my inner dream world; later, I approached the great subject of being human from an academic perspective. Then there was still quite a long way to go until I became able to consciously apply my intuitive access to other levels with my knowledge of humankind.
A good life for all! What nourishes me when I dare to do the seemingly impossible? Deep and meaningful bonds. How are these connections brought to life? Through my vulnerability. How do I live my relationship to God? In the daily interplay of testing and devotion.
These are the keys to my work and my message with Becoming Essence. Being human is ambivalent. Nevertheless, we can live to the full our steadfast declaration of love to our own being – respectfully connected with others and with the world!
Learn more about my path >
Be qualified
Academic: M.A. Germanic Studies, Romance Studies, History | Master of Arts in Social Science & Humanities | Master Science Politique
In the Marketplace: Project management in international cultural institutions in Germany and abroad
Head of Public Relations & Co-operations, Curator of Arts Programme, Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg
Currently: Festival Designer, Water Festival Freiburg
As an Independent: Founder of RAUM IM SEIN, practice for trauma resolution and bonding-oriented body psychotherapy
Free Play & Research: Founder of the global initiative Integrity For Future | Founder of the Becoming-Essence Feel & Think Tank – the creative laboratory for modern tribe based designs
Participation: Collective Trauma – International Climate Change Lab (Pocket Project) | Prototyping in the M.I.T. program u.lab 2x 2021 | International Bateson Institute (Warm Data community)
- Master Stratégies des Echanges
Culturelles Internationaux - Magistra Artium Germanic and Romance Studies, History
- Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®
based on Peter Levine - Existential Analysis based on Viktor Frankl
- Gestalt-Counsellor based on Fritz Perls
- Body Psychotherapy based on Wilhelm Reich
- Basic Bonding© based on Thomas Harms
- Academy of Inner Science | Transparent communication
based on Thomas Huebl - Masterclass “In the eye of the needle” – Coma and near death experiences by Peter Levine
- Warm Data Lab host, trained by Nora Bateson @ International Bateson Institute
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Shame – the banishmentDeeply rooted in my essence lies the stirring question “How can we make this work as humans here on this…