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ABOUT ME

My background, qualifications
& methods

Meike Rottermann

My Background & Motivation - What Coaching is About for Me

Since 2017, I have been accompanying people on their path to greater awareness and self-development with investigative curiosity and human depth.

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I see my task in helping people to experience themselves and others more consciously and therefore more freely and being in relationship like that: this creates a happy, joyful way of living, the ability to face reality and act effectively. Change is possible through practice. Increasing awareness will bring you forward on the path.

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All of this helps to lead a fulfilling, joyful life and work. Here I can support you.

Also, I can accompany you in exploring the question of what overarching meaning your life should have.

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Incorporated in my work is, my coaching experience since 2017, IOCB-certified coaching training, including in psychological approaches that work with the inner world, many years of mindfulness and Zen practice, as well as my own reflected life experience. A long time ago, but a good basis: in my studies of European Ethnology, I learned to look at Western Europeans, 'my own people' so to speak, with a beginner's mind.

 

I approach you with respect, empathy and the conviction that you have evident, tangible wisdom within you that can guide your practical actions in everyday life.

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My coaching approach is based on a humanistic worldview and scientific principles.

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I am profound, yet practical in life.

Mindfully exploring while keeping the big picture in mind.

Compassionate and, when helpful, direct.

My Qualifications

Professional Experience

  • Coach, career consultant and trainer, individual and group coaching, mentoring groups, training (Max Planck Society and Technical University Vienna coach & trainer pool)​​​

  • Successfully established a Career Center for junior and senior scientists as a team of three in Munich, for Germany's largest independent research organization​

  • Senior coach and trainer at an independent research organization focused on biomedical and environmental sciences

  • Academic lecturer​

  • Science communicator at the largest German research hospital in Berlin

Sectors

  • Research Organizations

  • Healthcare and Medical

  • Higher Education

  • Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology

  • Public Sector and Administration

  • Cultural Institutions

  • Startups

Education & Training

  • Coaching Training "Psychology of Change. Emotional Intelligence in Coaching" (IOBC- and DBVC-certified), ​Dietz Coaching, 2018​

  • Zürich-Mainzer Career Advice Model (ZML) Fortbildungszentrum Laufbahnberatung, 2020​

  • Theory U | Awareness-Based Systems Change Practitioner u-school for Transformation by Presencing Institute, ongoing since 2024​

  • Professional Supervision Group "In Good Hands in Times of Change" with Thomas Dietz, since 2021​​

  • Essence Coaching, Akademie für Coachs, 2022​

  • MBTI Step 1 Certification, The Myers-Briggs Company, 2022​

  • Diploma in Cultural Anthropologies University of Vienna, 2016

Meditation & Mindfulness Training

  • Zen practice: 2019-2023, student of Prof Yudo J. Seggelke, since 2024 retreats at Brooklyn Zen Center​​

  • Embodied Teaching Certificate, Unified Mindfulness, 2024​​

  • Mindfulness practices: Mindfulness-Based Self-Compassion (MSC), Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and other courses since 2008​

I accompany each client individually and without a prefabricated scheme, in a collaborative process.

Methods I work with

I flexibly and creatively integrate different approaches. This includes:

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  • Resource and solution-oriented methods

  • Internal Family System according to Richard Schwartz

  • Strengths and values ​​orientation

  • Systemic questioning techniques and constellation work

  • Somatic intelligence

  • Mindful exploration

  • Zurich Resource Model

  • Aspects of Hakomi Psychotherapy adapted for Coaching contexts

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