Change occurs when you become who you are, rather than when you try to become who you’re not. (Arnie Beisser, The Paradoxical Theory of Change)
My name is Eva Hartmann and I have been working with individuals and groups - mostly in arts/creative, social and other fields - as a coach, mentor, consultant, mediator, facilitator, trainer and teacher for a number of years.
I also worked as a producer and manager in the freelance art scene between 1999 and 2023.
My coaching is based on accredited coaching skills from the Relational Dynamics training as well as Gestalt coaching with John Leary-Joyce and trauma-informed coaching with Julia Vaughn Smith and Jenny Rogers. Other approaches, techniques and inspirations come from Co-Active Coaching and Nonviolent Communication (Marshall B. Rosenberg) and from many great and inspiring colleagues, whose work I will sometimes write about on #IWONDER
I use a range of these approaches, according to your needs and preferences, coupled with the wealth of experience and skills I have accumulated in my life. I combine all this with my curiosity about what I don't know and my desire to keep learning, unlearning and relearning.
I am large… I contain multitudes. (Walt Whitman)
As a coach I act as your positive deviant providing a moment of calm. I offer a space that is designed according to your wishes. There is no right or wrong. There is you and what you bring.
The coaching room is a place for reflection, a space to reconnect or rediscover joy, meaning and values. In the coaching room I accompany your emotional journey of change or the desire to (re)explore your own contribution to this world. Especially when the world may seem "volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous".
I am there to ask open and sometimes challenging questions, to assist you in your thinking going forward and on the path to yourself/yourselves. To challenge unreflected customary conventions (mostly “the normal”) and boundaries and to question assumptions and beliefs that seem unquestioned.
My coaching is based on my belief in the humanity in all of us. The basis is that you want to take responsibility for yourself and for your actions in order to gradually narrow the gap between what is thought, said and done. The connection to you opens the door for the relationships and connections to the surrounding world or for your strategies about how you want to implement something.
You can decide:
Given that we have no option but to navigate constant change, we can either:
A. Abdicate responsibility then trust or blame Fate, the Universe, the Government or anyone else, for what happens to us.
B. Take responsibility, make aware choices and decisions, then accept the consequence. (John Leary-Joyce)