About me
I have a serious chronic illness myself and am familiar with the medical and bureaucratic challenges involved from personal experience. As well as I know how difficult it can be to reconcile personal goals and wishes with external barriers and one's own needs. This has motivated me to support people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses and their close ones.
I worked many years as a video artist. Artistically and academically, I question oppressive and discriminatory systems of knowledge and action.
These approaches, as well as an anti-discriminatory language, shape my counselling.
Education and work
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Magistra Artium in Philosophy and Musicology
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Master of Arts in Cognitive Media linguistics
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Further training in Psychological Counselling
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15 years media designer and video artist in South Africa
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About 10 years teaching educational courses (adults and youth)
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5 years working in inclusive cultural projects
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Voluntary work (children’s hospice / refuge and disability)
Autobiographical audio play in English.
Trigger warning: hospital settings, medical emergencies
Guest contribution for Über den Tellerrand (p. 6) in the iXNet newsletter of ZAV (German): Empowerment durch Netzwerke für Kunstschaffende mit Behinderung
Co-publisher of the zine (German): Intimate Talks #1 following the exhibition On Illness, Resistance and Modes of (Collective) Health Care