upalong - wayfinding and intentional gathering
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Meet Your Guide
Katharina has been many things in this life. Passionate teacher & wild child, visual artist & street art maker living the artists’s dream in the bohemian quarters of Paris, graphic designer & wanna-be writer, expat hasbeen & live-abroad dinner party host in France, USA & Canada, totally lit adventurer & globe trotter, global forum leader, depressed solo retreater, sun lover, lavender chaser and most importantly: radically sensitive optimist and stubborn dreamer.
With a long lasting history as a recovering people pleaser struggling with anxiety despite exterior success, her mission is now to bring more healing, peace and ease into this world, while simultaneously pouring all her past lives into one container to help people breathe more, care less what other people think, and bravely create a life and legacy that is truly theirs. Transforming places and lives, one destiny and dream at a time.
What is Wayfinding?
We are living in an increasingly complex and fast-paced world. The more the waves of change and inner and outer turmoil keep hitting us, the more we feel deep down that there has to be another way. New ways of being and doing. Nature has been telling us for a long time, science is finally catching up. Now it is time to catch up for us.
Wayfinding is the ancient wisdom of unearthing and harnessing the power of our inner compasses as our new tools of navigation.
What if our deeply felt yearning for peace and calm, and an abundant life was calling us for a reason? A deep inner knowing that there is another way?
What if our true calling, our own North Star, was the answer to all our troubles, doubts, sorrows, anxieties, worries, yearnings and fears? And what if indigenous and ancient wisdom traditions combined with practices from psychology and neuroscience, could show us the way?
What if our own way to true liberation was also the way to set us all free from the burdens of man made constructs of fear and separation, and even save our planet as a whole?
Katharina's Background & Training
Wayfinder Life Coach Training, Martha Beck Inc (qualifies for PCC level 211 hours)
Horse Assisted Equus Coach Training (100 hours)
The Art of Hosting, AOH Canada at Montreal
Salzburg Global Seminar Young Cultural Innovators Leadership Forum Chief Executive Program Designer & Co-Lead 2020, Fellow Facilitator 2019, Fellow 2018
Artist in Residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 2018/2019
Theory U and Leading from the Emerging Future Summer School at Université du Québec à Montréal
Kathy holds a Masters of Arts in English and American Studies, Fine Art and Teacher’s Trainining at the University of Salzburg, Austria, and will forever look back fondly to her time at Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA, and the Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts in Besançon, France, playing in the streets of Montreal, Canada, and sheep shifting and horseback riding in Clackline, Western Australia.
Other fields of inspiration and recommended further reading
Dr. Gabor Maté
Thomas Hübl & Transparent Communication, Attunement & collective trauma healing
Dr. Richard Schwartz & Internal Family Systems
Brené Brown
Simon Sinek
Oprah Winfrey
Peter Levine & Somatic Experiencing
Bessel Van Der Kolk
John P. Milton’s Way of Nature
Sandra Ingerman & Shamanism
Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering
Sharon Blakie: If Women Rose Rooted
Aisha Hannibal & Mary Ann Clements: Red Tents: Unravelling our Past and Weaving a Shared Future
Clarissa Pinkola Estes: Women Who Run With The Wolves
Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom traditions
Polyvagal Theory and the Nervous System
Peta Kelly: Earth Is Hiring
Esther Perel
Modern Mysticism & Neuroscience
Dr. Tara Swart
Dr. Joe Dispenza
The power of alchemizing, transmutation & integration to stop repetition complusion and walk new ways
Dr. Dan Siegel & Intraconnectedness
