Coaching & Supervision
Academic Coaching
Gender Equality Coaching
Coaching for Women
— Room for Change —
What is Coaching?
Coaching offers individuals, groups or teams the opportunity to reflect on personal and professional matters, gain clarity and discover new ways forward. With well-structured support and encouragement, you can develop sustainable solutions and strengthen your resources. Change starts with doing something differently – and coaching can guide you along the way.
Why Coaching?
Coaching can help with a variety of issues and challenges. For instance:
- Personal development:
Self-reflection, strengthening your own resources, dealing with change, trying out new ways of behaviour, gaining confidence.
- Professional issues and challenges:
Career planning, leadership, role clarification, decision-making processes
- Dealing with conflicts:
Improving communication, actively shaping relationships, resolving internal and external conflicts
- Work-life integration:
Stress management, setting priorities, finding healthy boundaries.
— Main Areas of my Coaching —
Academic Coaching
The academic path is complex and comes with many challenges. Whether you are facing qualification phases, leadership issues or structural or personal changes, academic coaching can help you shape your own career path in research, teaching and academic management. The aim is to understand the explicit and implicit rules of the university system better, clarify your goals, make realistic plans and gain more flexibility in your daily professional life.
Possible Topics in Academic Coaching:
Career development in academia: Determining your current position in your academic career, planning and realising the next steps on your path
Support in application processes:
Targeted preparation for professorial appointment processes (especially hearings/interviews), dealing with unconscious biases
Clarifying your role:
Identifying potential conflicts in the work environment by reflecting on professional roles, defining goals and responsibilities, dealing with conflicting expectations and achieving role clarity
Dealing with conflicts:
Reflecting on and understanding conflict dynamics, dealing with and preventing conflicts
‘Stuck in the middle with you’:
Assistance and support during your PhD, for example, with procrastination, writer's block and dealing with supervisors
Preparing for difficult conversation,for example, dealing with discrimination and critical feedback
Developing into a leadership role:for example, clarifying roles, managing staff, conversation techniques and strategic planning
Gender Equality Coaching
Working in the field of gender equality is multi-faceted, demanding and often full of challenges. Coaching supports equal opportunities officers, heads of gender equality units and other committed individuals in working in a reflective and empowered manner. I will work with you to develop strategies for overcoming challenges, dealing with resistance and defining your position clearly in your work environment.
My Services in Gender Equality Coaching:
1:1 – coaching and supervision for individuals who have concerns related to gender equality work
1: x – supervision, expert inputs, workshops, lectures, and event moderation on gender equality topics
Coaching for Women
In the workplace, women (or those perceived as female) are often subject to different rules and norms than men. For many women, internalised gender stereotypes and biases can reinforce the feeling of not ‘really belonging’, especially in an academic context. Coaching can help you to reflect and work on external and internalised patterns by developing and trying out different strategies.
Possible Topics in Coaching for Women:
Career development:
Whether it is about the next career step, a professional reorientation or re-entry after parental leave – career coaching offers orientation, clarity and strategy development.
Dealing with gender stereotypes and biases: Especially for job and professorial committee interviews, it can be helpful to be able to actively counteract gender stereotypes and biases.
Why is Supervision Important in Academic Institutions?
Supervision provides valuable support within academic institutions by helping to manage stress, improve communication, and resolve conflicts. Researchers and teaching staff benefit from a clear understanding of their roles, improved cooperation and sustainable personnel development. Supervision also strengthens leadership skills, encourages reflection on how to deal with power structures and supports change processes. Through reflection and professional support, supervision contributes to quality assurance in research and teaching.
— My Services in Supervision —
Group supervision for gender equality professionals:
Reflection on gender equality work and counselling cases, dealing with resistance and developing gender equality strategies
Group supervision for counsellors
in academic institutions:
Approaches to and handling of counselling cases (especially in the context of sexual harassment, discrimination and violence), resource work and strengthening counsellors.
Einzel- und Teamsupervision von (akademischen) Führungskräften:
Individual and team supervision for academic leaders: Reflection on leadership tasks, role clarification and development of gender- and diversity-sensitive leadership skills.
My Approach to Coaching and Supervision – Systemic meets Gestalt
My approach to coaching and supervision is a combination of systemic and Gestalt elements. I work … I work...
Resource- and solution-oriented
Knowing your own resources and strengths is an essential part of developing tailored solutions. In coaching, I support you in utilising your resources for your personal and professional development.
System- and field-oriented
Problems and challenges do not arise in isolation. They are often the result of relationships and dynamics within personal and professional systems, such as a team or academia. In coaching and supervision, we reflect on these systems and their key mechanisms, as well as your interactions with them.
Here and Now
Focusing on how you experience the present moment allows you to recognise your thoughts, feelings and attitudes towards challenges and problems. In this way, mental and emotional patterns and beliefs can become visible, explorable and alterable. This creates a space for personal growth and new ways of acting.
— Research Organisations for which I work as a Coach and Supervisor (Selection) —
- University of Regensburg
- University of Stuttgart
- University of Bayreuth
- Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
- TH Köln
- University of Hamburg
- Technical University of Darmstadt
- University of Erfurt
- Kiel University (CAU Kiel)
- Kiel University of Applied Sciences
- HTW Berlin
