About me: Psychologist and MBSR-Trainer in Berlin

Diploma-Psychologist and MBSR-Trainer Imada Spiewok

As a Psychologist, I work in Berlin and online. My work is based on the findings of mindfulness research, neuroscience and neuroimmunology, among other things, and focuses on psychological resources for changemakers. Together we expand your scope of action and identify inner and outer resources and strategies for action.

In my training as an MBSR trainer (according to Jon Kabat-Zinn), the integration of meditation practice into everyday life was particularly important to me, and I now also support my clients in this. In my MSC training (Mindful Self-Compassion) with Christopher Germer for psychologists, I have deepened the practice of self-compassion as a resilience factor specifically for social professions.

I have been working for many years in individual coaching with a focus on chronic illness. For working with teams, groups and self-organizations, I offer resources that are particularly important for good collaboration, also in terms of intersectionality.

Currently, I train social, medical and scientific professions and advise individual clients and teams in participatory research and practice.
An appreciative and resource-oriented approach to my clients is particularly important to me.

“Compassion is the art of the heart to let yourself be touched by suffering – one’s own and that of others – to respond with kindness and understanding.”(Sven-Joachim Haack)

Mindfulness and self-compassion have proven to be key health and resilience factors for my clients. It can also be very supportive for our everyday life to learn to be connected with ourselves and our environment at the same time and not to lose ourselves in the process. A mindfulness practice integrated into everyday life can be a valuable resource, especially in challenging situations and times of change.

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

– Viktor Frankl

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. "

– The Guesthouse by Rumi

“God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."

– Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr

Contact

✉ info@imadaspiewok.com

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