Meet Margrit

Margrit believes strongly that our bodies have a bigger role to play than merely carrying our heads around. Through her training and work as a psycho-somatic therapist in Berlin, she discovered that the wisdom of the body is often deeper, wiser and more honest than the wisdom of the mind. It is the synergy of the client-coach relationship that brings immense joy and wonder to Margrit’s coaching work.

Margrit grew up in West-Berlin, surrounded by the Berlin Wall, in a country that was just learning the lessons from WWII. In this divided and guilt-ridden country, she witnessed inequality and oppression which has had a lasting impact on her life-long desire for freedom, equality and human rights. In this political environment, Margrit was raised in a dysfunctional family, with a strong and working single mother and two older siblings, and a father who took her to Greece.

Her high sensitivity to climate change and environmental concerns might stem in part from her witnessing the impact of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl as a child. This has lead to environmental responsibility in her every day life.

In the past 15 years, Margrit has lived with her husband and two children in a home away from home, on the land of the the Piscataway Native American, indigenous to the east coast of North America. Margrit is aware of her privileges as a Western European immigrant living in the US. The life with this intra-cultural, bilingual and queer family has given her a sharpened awareness for the lives of immigrants, expats as well as for cultural, gender and racial differences and inequalities. Her journey has been coming home to herself, wherever she is.

This has led her to her passion and vocation to support clients in finding their way home as well. People who may be living in transition, be it forced immigration or voluntary. People who have left the country they grew up in, who may have lost their culture and language. Other people who feel lost in their lives, be it work-related or in their relationships. Or people whose gender identity is non-binory or transgender. Margrit wants to work with people, who are ready to find belonging within themselves and unfold their full potential.

Margrit also founded her international world language business, the Little German School Takoma Park and has been working with families, indivuals and groups of all ages for more than 15 years.

What moves me

I spend time in nature, almost every day, any season and weather.

I need to move: walking, biking, swimming, practicing Yoga and Qi Gong, I just started with tennis lessons.

I sing! In the kitchen and in a Unitarian Universalist Church choir, with my family and students.

I receive beauty and meaning through visual art, story telling, classical concerts and my favorite art form: crankies.

I seek to be alone to reflect, breathe or read and I also seek community and real connection with the lovely people that I am fortunate to call my close family and dear friends.

Education and Professional Experience

• Professional independent systemic life coach (since 2018)

• Dance On: Movement and Creative Aging (Organizing with Artists for Change, Dance Exchange, Takoma Park, MD, Cohort member 2022-23)

• IFS/Parts Work, advanced coaching training with Guthrie Sayens, adapted Internal Family Systems (founder of IFS: Dick Schwartz) (2021 - 2022)

• Coaching for Transformation, certified coaching program through Leadership That Works, at Omega Institute, NY (2018)

• Private German and Drama teacher, founder and business owner of www.littlegermanschooltakomapark.com (2003 - present)

• Theater Education/Theaterpädagogik (2011), University of Fine Arts, Berlin (UdK, Berlin)

• Systemic Family Therapy training (2009) with Gesellschaft für Systemische Therapie und Beratung (GST), Berlin, Germany

• Systemic Psycho-Somatic Therapy training (2006), GST, Berlin

• German and English Literature and Linguistics (MA, cum laude), 2003, at Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany

• Languages: German and English

• Member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF)