Expertise for Coaching and Meditation
A Journey through Human Consciousness
I became an expert working as a coach for people in crisis through a long journey into my own consciousness. I have never avoided difficulties in life and therefore I am able to offer my authentic experience as help. The essence of my journey can be divided into five stages.
Freedom and Creativity
When I was younger my search for freedom, inventiveness and creative expression was predominant. I traveled through the United States and then studied Free Art.
Freedom and Creativity
When I was younger my search for freedom, inventiveness and creative expression was predominant. I traveled through the United States and then studied Free Art.
Academic studies in Art Therapy
The studies in Art and Therapy were a wonderful combination for my Creativity and my love of people. They taught/were able to teach me a lot about the human psyche and especially about myself. The human and social approach touched me but in the end the working possibilities were not straightforward enough for me.
Group Therapy, Encounter, Primal Therapy
By learning and teaching for many years in a therapeutic center I was able to work with people very closely and directly. I studied Humaniversity Psychology and was leading groups and processes using the following techniques: Encounter, Primal, Rebirthing, Gestalt, Bioenergetics, Creativity, Behavioral therapy, NLP, Emotional Release, Sexuality Counseling, Systemic Constellation, Shamanism, Role Playing, Guided Journeys, many methods that help people in crisis.
Meditation and Terminal Care
The time I spent in the intense examination of human crisis on a therapeutic level allowed me to see its advantages but also its limitations. My journey took a turn towards meditation, towards exploring what there is behind the psyche, thoughts and feelings. I turned more inside and started to experiment with many meditation techniques and Meditation in daily life. I also spent a lot of time learning about people who needed terminal care and were facing death.
Integration and Expertise
After a long period of retreats and the intensive exploration of meditation I feel I am at a point where all my experiences are melting together. My understanding of human conditioning has become more profound on this journey through my own consciousness. Coaching for me means integrating the creative, therapeutic and meditative aspects and to do this in a professional and practical way is the essence of my work today.
Kirsten Tofahrn’s CV
| 1987 - 1989 | Academic studies in Art, Cologne |
| 1990 - 1993 | Academic studies in Art Therapy, FH Ottersberg |
| 1991 | I became the mother of a daughter |
| 1991 - 1995 | Therapeutic Training in the Humaniversity (University of Human Arts) Egmond aan Zee |
| 1993 | Masters degree in Art Therapy |
| 1995 | Humaniversity Therapist |
| 1996 - 1999 | Humaniversity Psychology Studies |
| 1999 | Masters Degree in Humaniversity Psychology |
| 1999 - 2003 | Leadership of international and therapeutic seminars and workshops in Holland, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, England, Italy, Canada, Brazil, und India. |
| 2003 | Further Education in mainly eastern meditation techniques: Vipassana Meditation, Awareness Intensive, Mystic Rose, Yoga, Divine Healing, MBSR, Trauma Healing, Peter Levine and Terminal Care. |
| Since 2007 | I have been back in my home town, working with individual sessions and engaging in working with new methods of stress reduction and modern-meditation cologne. |
Client Testimonials
Getting out of crisis with contemporary life coaching
Coaching and stress reduction
Relaxation and rest during time out or a retreat
Scheduled courses and retreats to relieve stress