Hi, I am Dr Sabine Blackmore

People, organisations and words are my passion.

It is important to me that people can live and work according to their goals, experiencing as little discrimination and as much awareness of gender and diversity as possible. This is what I am committed to and what shapes my work as a coach, trainer and Gestalt therapist.

Having worked at universities and universities of applied sciences for many years, I am familiar with their positive and negative sides of Higher Education. Power structures, lack of resources, pressure to perform and fixed-term contracts all lead to very different reactions in people.

I support people in shaping their own careers and lives, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own futures.

— My Background —

I hold a PhD in English Literatures and have an extensive background in English Studies as well as Modern German Literature. After completing my PhD, I discovered another important field in research institutions for myself: gender equality. These two areas — academia and gender equality — form the core of my professional experience and expertise as a coach and trainer.

I have also completed numerous trainings and further education courses in systemic, individual and team coaching. I am a Gestalt therapist and a certified non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy (HP Psych).
More information about this will be available on my Gestalt therapy website in autumn (link to be provided).

— My Values —

Empathy

Reliability

Clear communication and gender equality

— Education & Qualifications —

Qualifications at a Glance:
  • Individual Coaching Training I and II at Coaching Spirale Berlin (DCV-certified)
  • Training as a group and team coach at the German Coaching Academy (dca), Hildesheim
  • Coach for working with the inner team (Schulz von Thun) at the Ifit Hamburg
  • Certified non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy (HP Psych)
  • Additional training in supervision at the Europäische Hochschulverlverband (EHV).
  • Training as a Gestalt therapist at the Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Gestalt Pedagogy (IGG Berlin)

Furthermore …

  • various shorter further training courses on coaching, equality and gender issues, e.g. resilience, gender competence and intersectionality
  • Languages: German (mother tongue) and English (C2)
Career at a Glance
  • First occupation: retail bookseller – out of passion and for the love to books
  • Subsequently studied Modern German Literature and English/American Studies (HU Berlin)
  • PhD in English Literature (HU Berlin) (HU Berlin)
  • Transitioned to university politics and administration, as Vice Central Women’s Representatives (HU Berlin) and Managing Director of the Gender and Technology Centre at the (former) Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin (now: Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT)
  • Further training as a systemic coach and trainer
  • Gestalt therapist (HP Psych)
  • Current publication: Anthology together with Dr Heike Pantelmann (FU Berlin): Sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt im Hochschulkontext. Herausforderungen, Umgangsweisen und Prävention. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler, 2023.
Publications at a Glance
  • Horvath, Lisa K., Taxacher, Eva, Essl, Helena und Sabine Blackmore (2025): „Brauchen wir wirklich noch Gender-Trainings?“: Ein Blick auf Gender Biases in der Wissenschaft und wie zeitgemäße, genderbezogenen Weiterbildungsformate aussehen können. In: Daniela Fahrnbach, Elena Lazic, Daphne Orth und Franziska Vaessen (Eds.): Alma Mater – Wo bleiben deine Frauen? Universitäre Frauenförderung auf dem Prüfstand. In cooperation with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Equality and Diversity Office of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg University. http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-11163
  • Pantelmann, Heike und Blackmore, Sabine (Eds.) (2023): Sexualisierte Diskriminierung und Gewalt an Hochschulen. Herausforderungen, Umgangsweisen und Prävention. Wiesbaden: Springer-Verlag.
  • Blackmore, Sabine und Horvath, Lisa K. (2023): „Na, dann brauchen wir wohl einen Workshop oder Coaching…“ – Trainings und Coaching als Instrumente in der hochschulischen Arbeit bei Fällen von sexualisierter Diskriminierung und Gewalt. In: Heike Pantelmann und Sabine Blackmore (Eds.): Sexualisierte Diskriminierung und Gewalt an Hochschulen. Herausforderungen, Umgangsweisen und Prävention. Wiesbaden: Springer-Verlag.
  • Horvath, Lisa K. und Blackmore, Sabine (2021): Nicht mit ihnen und nicht ohne sie: Implizite Biases in der Wissenschaft.“ Bunsen-Magazin 23(5), 246-252. http:77doi.org/10.26125/7qwf-fn21.
  • Blackmore, Sabine (2020): Gleichstellung. In: Anette Hammerschmidt und Neela Enke (Hrsg.): Forschen, Lehren, Führen. Das ABC für die Hochschulkarriere. München: UVK-Verlag.


    Academic Publications (Selection):

  • Blackmore, Sabine (2015): „In soft Complaints no longer ease I find. Poetic Configurations of Melancholy in 18th-Century Women Poets. Berlin: Universitätsbibliothek Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://doi.org/10.18452/17176
  • Blackmore, Sabine (2011): ‘To pictur’d Regions and imagin’d Worlds’: Female Melancholic Writing and the Poems of Mary Leapor. In: Martin Midekke and Christina Wald, C. (Hrsg.). The Literature of Melancholia. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230336988_5.
  • Haekel, Ralf und Blackmore, Sabine (Hrsg.) (2013): Discovering the Human. Life Sciences and the Arts in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Centuries. Göttingen: V&R unipress. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737001373.

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