if you want to go faster, go alone. if you want to go further, go together.

My passion is to bring people further on their journey. I facilitate learning and change processes for people and organisations. 'Learning' and 'Change' are the social phenomenons that I have the greatest interest in. I love working with change tools that promote active participation, self-organisation and responsibility.

As facilitator of learning and change processes for groups, organisations and communities I work with open space technology, world café, future search conference and other innovative change tools.

In the field of adult and youth education I organise international trainings, seminars and projects in cooperation with my partners. I train people on personal development, communication and soft skills and run workshops about time and stress management and techniques for facilitating creativity, powerful questions, interview technology and better presentation.

As I have focused on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in my studies and worked for a research project at university about the political, economic and social transition in CEE I offer policy consulting service for the evaluation and monitoring of projects.

At the university I give lectures about sociology, political science, Central and Eastern European transitions, scientific methods and techniques and offer coachings in professional development for students and graduates.

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German (native language)

For my role as trainer, facilitator and consultant I have continuously developed my education and professional skills with seminars and trainings on didactics, rhetoric and large group intervening tools, esp. open space technology, world café, future search conference, advanced meeting management, and further studies about personal development, communication, cognitive foundations of learning (learning psychology) and group dynamics.

I graduated from Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany and Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France with a Diploma in Sociology and Political Sciences. In my studies I focused on Organisation Science, Central and Eastern European Transitions, Systems of Social Interests Representation and International Politics.

I'm currently a PhD Candidate at the Europe-University Viadrina, Frankfurt/ Oder, Germany.

Doctoral Thesis Working Title

ABSTRACT: The aim of my dissertation is to analyse the policy process of enterprise privatisation in Central and Eastern European countries, one of the big reforms demanded by transition. In nearly all countries privatisation has been finished so far, but has proceeded differently. A look back on the privatisation process shows several shifts in policy-making and a progression of country specific privatisation patterns. I elaborate on how these patterns evolved. I focus especially on organisational and institutional settings, on the choice of political actor's strategies in decision-making, on the trigger mechanisms and conditions for successful process-oriented adjustments in privatisation policy. The method I use is QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) from Charles Ragin. This analysis attracts my special attention because of the transitory nature of the policy field regarding the restriction by time and objective, and – resulting from that – the limited potential for policy learning.

As expert on Central and Eastern Europe I'm highly involved with my organisation JOE-Plattform Berlin e.V. (Association of Young Experts on Eastern Europe) in Berlin, Germany. Our organisation has about 70 members which are experts on Central and Eastern European issues in different fields. I'm currently chairwoman and responsible for the coordination of working groups and projects, event organisation, fundraising and for the representation of our organisation. See more www.joe-plattform.de (in German language).