About me
Bijan Ghaffari-Tabrizi
I am fascinated by the complexity of the human psyche. How can we live happy lives and develop healthy relationships with ourselves and others? I am continually amazed by how much there is to discover on the path of self-exploration. It is important to me to remain open to a wide range of human concerns, and I am grateful for the trust placed in me in therapeutic work.
I was born and raised in Hamburg, but I have also been shaped by Persian-Iranian culture alongside the German one. I value the diversity of different cultures as well as the uniqueness of each individual.
Along my life path, I have repeatedly engaged with alternative approaches to ecological sustainability and commons-oriented economic models. I have been part of various community projects and environmental movements, and at university I conducted research on the psychological effects of experiences in nature.
You stand alone
by the gotten-old gate
to an unlikely heaven.
Turning neither around
nor inwards,
nor standing still.
The path of uncertainty
does not care about happy endings;
it is walked with a fresh breeze,
with an adaptive heart.
Training
- Master of Arts in Movement Science (University of Hamburg)
- Heilpraktiker for Psychotherapy
- Gestalt Counseling (in training: Gestalt Therapy) (IGF Hamburg)
- Vision Quest Guide "School of Lost Borders" (Sylvia Koch-Weser)
- 8 Shields Jon Young (Wildnisschule Seenland)
- Nonviolent Communication (Dagmar Bellen)
- Work That Reconnects (Holon-Institut)
- Grief Counselor (Hamburger Gesundheitshilfe)
Vita
- Projektmanagement Bildungs- und Kulturort Phönixberg e.G.
- Buchübersetzung Bill Plotkin: The Journey of Soul Initiation (Arun Verlag)
- Forschungsprojekt: Studie zur Wirksamkeit eines Kur- und Heilwaldes für die Rehabilitation von Patient*innen mit chronischem Rückenschmerz
- Vorstandsvorsitz (Institut für Naturorientierung und Lebensstil e.V.)
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung Sport- und Bewegungsmedizin (Universität Hamburg)
- Wissenschaftlicher Gutachter für die Osteopathie Schule Deutschland (OSD)
