HELLO, I'M JOHANNES
Mentor for transformation processes
About me
As a mentor for transformation processes, systemic coach and psychotherapeutic alternative practitioner, I offer my clients a diverse range of help, clarification and support services, which I underpin with the authentic experiences of my own life.
Born in Berlin, one of my most formative childhood and adolescent experiences was growing up in a Christian fundamentalist sect, a toxic environment into which I was born and which left lasting traces on me.
Even though I left this sect on my own strength as a young adult, growing up in this environment anchored destructive patterns in me that led to constant exhaustion and dysfunctionality in everyday life and a depressive illness. I worked through the causes of this in the course of many years of psychotherapy, during which I was able to learn that and how depression can be cured.
After leaving the cult, I turned my love for music into a profession, followed by almost 3 decades of working in the music and event business. Since the early 90s I have DJed in many Berlin clubs and in 2002 I founded the Berlin club Watergate . From 2005 I worked as a tour manager for internationally successful bands and DJs like Booka Shade and Tiga , organizing and performing tours and gigs all over the world and creating a perfect environment for my clients' creative performance with commitment and attentiveness.
In 2015, I gave up traveling as a tour manager and worked for another 3 years as an event manager in top gastronomy. There, too, mindful interaction with my team was always of utmost importance to me.
Therefore, in 2018, I decided to expand my professional experience with a systemic coaching training at The Coaching Club, to be able to pass on my structural knowledge and experience specifically to people working in the creative industries and gastronomy.
However, it was above all the many years of dealing with and healing from my own depressive illness that subsequently led me to train as a psychotherapeutic alternative practitioner in the alternative medicine school arche medica , which I successfully completed in November 2020 with the official review by the Berlin Health Department.
With the beginning of the year 2021, I have decided to introduce the topic "Exiting cults" in my therapeutical portofolio. I have my "Sect Exit First Aid Kit" (SAEHK) for this purpose, so that I can now also help people in challenging life situations in relation to cults with my own experience and skills.
In 2022 I founded with my partner Cinderella Baksa-Soós our company "Free The Qi!", in which we combine mental and somatic coaching and thus offer our clients a booster on their way to their highest potential with our joint work.
On my life's journey I was allowed to learn from and with myself how great our potential for healing and self-empowerment is, a process that makes me deeply happy and is far from being completed.
About my work
I would like to offer you my knowledge and experience to help you maintain the balance between creative chaos, economic challenges and mental health: I pick you up where you are in life. Always full of respect and attentiveness, always at eye level.
With my training as a systemic coach, I can work with you to gain a new perspective on your life situation, develop new ideas and make existing resources recognizable.
My training as an NLP-Practitioner enables me to bring existing knowledge and emotions from the subconscious to the surface with you through conversations and exercises, as well as to deeply anchor new insights in you.
My training as a psychotherapeutic alternative practitioner allows me to embark with you on a profound search for beliefs and patterns in order to work on them with you, but also to impart knowledge to you and to show you possibilities that can serve as a support for coping with everyday life in concrete crises.
The basis of my approach is my humanistic view of humankind, which is reflected in the application of person-centered psychotherapy according to Carl R. Rogers in the work with my clients. Accordingly, I work with a resource-oriented approach to promote with this focus your self-healing powers for self-realization, towards experiencing your wholeness and your highest potential.
My life path, my personal experiences and skills and my resulting authentic attitude, enable me to create and hold a space for you to discover emotions, express thoughts and juggle ideas without judgement.
As a result of these processes you will be able to find new ways and to exploit and live your potential better than before, because my goal is and always has been to make things better. With you and for you!
Let me be your highest potential's tour manager.
“Let’s push things forward!” (Mike Skinner / The Streets)