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💼 Professional Experience

• Contemplative Mentor (2023–present)
  – Offering personal guidance through contemplative, trauma-informed methods
  – Over 150 one-on-one sessions with individuals from diverse backgrounds and needs
• Lecturer at the master’s course on mindfulness at University College Vienna (2020–present)
  – Teaching
  – Supervision of master’s theses
• Teacher for mindfulness-based course formats (2016–present)
  – Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
  – Mindful Self-Compassion
  – Positive Neuroplasticity
  – Effortless Mindfulness
  – Graduate courses in MSC & MBSR for the Community for Deepening Practice
  – Over 1,500 hours of live teaching (online & in person, in English & German), 40+ group courses, 1,000+ participants
• Socio-therapeutic counselor for Windhorse Vienna (2015–present)
  – Mindful, compassionate socio-therapeutic support for individuals in acute mental health crises
• Translator of English and German professional literature (2007–present)
  – Total of 100 projects and 110,000 standard lines
• Interpreter for English- and German-speaking teachers and lecturers (2007–present)
  – Total of 42 projects and 410 hours
• Proofreading of English-language books and articles (2012-2020)
  – Total of 79 projects and 9,500 standard pages
• Librarian at the Departmental Library for South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna (2007–2017)
  – Information service, cataloging, and subject indexing

🤝 Internships & Volunteer Work

• Consultant for the Mindful Teacher Community Network (2024–present)
• Board member of the European Transpersonal Association (2017–2020)
• Founding member of the Consciousness Studies Academy Vienna (2015–2017)
• Clinical research assistant at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (2015–2016)
• Library research assistant at the Tibetan Buddhist Ressource Center (2010)

🧑‍🎓 University Education

• Master’s Degree in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
  (Institute for South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, 2002–2012)
• University Course in Library and Information Studies
  (Postgraduate Center, University of Vienna, 2009–2010)
• University Course in Propaedeutic Psychotherapy Training
  (Postgraduate Center, University of Vienna, 2013–2016)

🧘 Professional Mindfulness Teacher Training

• Effortless Mindfulness Teacher Training (Loch Kelly, 2024–2025)
• Fierce Self-Compassion Teacher Training (Natalie Bell, 2025)
• Self-Compassion for Shame Teacher Training (Chris Germer, 2024)
• Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher Training (Arbor Seminars, 2018)
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training (Arbor Seminars, 2018–2019)
• Mindfulness Teacher Development Program (Bodhi College, 2016–2017)
• Basic Training in Mindful Living & Teaching (Arbor Seminars, 2015)

🏅Advanced Training in Mindfulness

• Mindful Self-Compassion for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy (Susie Fairchild, 2025)
• In Balance with a Regulated Nervous System (Nicole Zijnen, 2025)
• Trauma-Informed Work with Groups and Teams for Psychological Safety (Peter Paanakker, 2024)
• Somatic Self-Compassion Teaching and Learning Course: Embodied Trauma-Informed Contemplative Teaching (Kristy Arbon, 2024)
• Mindfulness-Based Strength Practice (Hanna Tempelhagen, 2024)
• Mindfulness-Based Training in Forgiveness (Frits Koster, 2024)
• Somatic Self-Compassion Weekly Practice Cycle (Kristy Arbon, 2023)
• Positive Neuroplasticity Training & Professional Course (Rick Hanson, 2018)
• Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (Hannes Huber, 2015)

🏆 Advanced Training in Transpersonal Psychology

• A Holotropic Approach to Psychedelics: Past, Current and Future (Grof Transpersonal Training & Marc Aixala, 2024)
• Short Course in Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork (International Institute for Holotropic Breathwork and Transpersonal Psychotherapy, 2017–2020)
• Basic Course in Consciousness Practices (Consciousness Studies Academy Vienna, 2017)
• Training Course in Contemplative Psychology (Windhorse Society, 2015)
• Summer Research Institute on Contemplative Science (Mind and Life Europe, 2014 & 2015)

🪞 Practice Background

• 10 ten-day retreats in the insight meditation tradition
• 25 holotropic breathwork sessions
• 20 ayahuasca sessions
• 400 hours of psychotherapeutic process work
• 1,000 hours of group process work
• 1,500 hours of counseling people in mental crises