Ann
La-Forker

Ann La-Forker

Trauma Expert, Shame researcher, process-facilitator

Ann La-Forker is at home in many dimensions. The humanities scholar also worked for many years as a project manager in the business world. Today the multi-facetted bodywork psychotherapist accompanies individuals and companies with her process work. She has also remained a passionate researcher.

She sums up her approach with a smile with the words “spiritual growing meets grounded nervous system”. In her process work, she combines a clear understanding of the world with shamanic knowledge and profound know-how about “trauma as an opportunity”.

Born in the shadow of post-war Germany in the DDR, the pearl diver has always lived in the clear self-perception of a “global citizen”. The discovery of the influence of transgenerational trauma and collective shadows on her own life was for her the key to a liberated life. In order to make this possible for other people, she trained herself over many years to become a holistic expert across a range of sectors.

Unwavering, she continues to research the essential conditions for a good life for all. In her projects – both in a regional and global context – she stands for the basic value of human dignity.

Ann lives with her family in Staufen, in the very south of Germany, close to Switzerland and France. Her energy flows into her bodywork therapy practice RAUM IM SEIN and into the Becoming-Essence Feel & Think Tank.

She regularly publishes articles on her main research topics trauma, shame and the conditions for a live in integrity. She is available as an interview partner and initiator at events and worldwide conferences for this topics.

Sande-Ann Maila is her shamanic name.

Some beginnings

are deep

My deep questions about human existence have accompanied me since my first breath.

I experienced birth and death in the same moment: my near-death experience of hour 0 made me look towards death for a few moments – today I would say I have seen God.

Overnight

everything is different

At the age of 15 the Berlin wall came down. And with it came many opportunities. More serious for me was the break up of my family. My parents are getting divorced.

And I wake up to my voice in the world. Demonstrating against the Iraq war, commitment against nuclear power. I move into a squat. And I continue to ask myself the important questions: How am I getting along with humanity as such. Why did I end up here? Can I leave again? Questioning everything. Questioning God.

New start – from 0

Between public relations and relationship work

You cannot go back – so make new connections! I decide to move to Hamburg and help build up the Reeperbahn Music Festival from scratch. A heart project in a great team with a wide range of experiences: Head of Public Relations & Cooperations, Curator, Project Manager. Pioneering work. Building up structures, creating sustainable connections, trying out new forms of teamwork, a lot of relationship work.

At the same time, I am clearing up the past. Dealing with the separation, discovering body-orientated psychotherapy, doing further training, deepening friendships, travelling, living alone. I like to be in the here and now.

After 8 years I am reaching my limits in terms of my profession. Something else calls. And it’s hard to let go. Severe pain forces me to make another decision.

Without an outer
safety net

but to arrive at last

I knew: to land completely, to get involved in life without a net or a solid ground – this is only possible with a radical orientation towards the nature of my being.

What am I really interested in? What does it take to be fully engaged in what I want to accomplish? How do I shape my life in such a way that I can also easily deal with the many impressions of my fine sensory system and the strong inner movements?

My declaration of love to our human nature has become unbreakable. I am a passionate researcher and simply want to know. I take the step into independence.

Becoming Essence

Working with the essence

I am still considering myself to be rather introvert. But that shouldn’t hinder me to also show up as an activist f- or humanity, for the planet, for our future. With the combination of trauma therapy and consulting for large companies in politics and business I have finally arrived, addressing in my sessions the real questions: Where did we lose contact with ourselves and with nature? How can it be that people collapse under the burden of their own lives, that politicians make decisions hostile to life, that many things die and we stand by unmoved, that some companies have become a place lacking humanity and others a guarantee for burn-out? We can only find the answer by looking back from the problems to ourselves. What is it that actually makes us human?

My mother, Maria.
System-critical intelligent free and peaceful spirit.
With heart and soul amongst the people. As a doctor and simply so.

We are so closely connected that it’s painful when I push you to your limits. Thank you, you have courageously looked at your own history and worked through the trauma of the generations before you, so that our relationship can be free.

I love you.
And I bow to you.