Psychologist · Coach · Potsdam & Berlin

PhD in
psychology

Member
of the BDP

Coach & licensed non-medical
psychotherapist

Teaching meditation
since 2008

Does this sound familiar?

When talking alone no longer helps


You have already thought and talked a lot: with your team, your board, with the people close to you. There has been no shortage of new perspectives. And yet, deep down, little has changed.

You carry a lot.

Responsibility, pace, expectations. And you sense: this cannot go on much longer.

Your team is not moving forward.

Strong in expertise, yet what remains unsaid slows down strategy and collaboration.

You are facing a decision.

Thinking it through and making lists no longer helps. Something inside you knows more.

Your organization is changing.

And you suspect: structure alone will not be enough.

There is a gap between your words and your experience.
This work is about closing that gap and bringing your words to life.

Beyond words

A space for what matters


over100,000

words are what you process every day, as thoughts, spoken language and writing.

  • What lies beyond words?
  • Which words are true, which ones essential?
  • How can words turn into action?
  • How can they lead to the experiences and results you truly want?

I offer you, your team and your organization

a space for resonance,

in which you hear yourself and your voice(s) more clearly,

and a mirror,

in which you see what is essential, beyond words.

This encounter with what is essential to you is the basis for bringing it to life.

What I work with

Three pillars that strengthen each other


Each pillar works on its own. Together they create synergy: what leaders clarify in coaching carries over to their teams. What teams learn changes the organization. Organizational change allows people to do their best work, reduce strain and increase well-being.

Coaching

Everything begins with you. Who you are and how you relate to yourself shapes the quality of your work, your relationships and your life. Here you will find guidance for essential change that brings you relief, freedom and lasting strength.

For your success across the board and in every area of life.

Psychologically grounded, with meditative presence and plenty of inspiration and joy.

Leadership & Teams

Real leadership and teamwork are built on integrity and work through resonance, carried by psychological safety and guided by strategic and communicative clarity.

For leaders and teams who want more than the sum of their parts.

Facilitated with appreciation, with a feel for the individuals within the group and a focus on new effectiveness together.

Organizational Development

Human systems follow their own psychology. When vision, structure and culture are aligned and in harmony, transformation, success and joy at work follow organically.

For an organization that is centered and has an impact beyond itself.

Scientifically and systemically conceived, with loving attention to detail and an eye for the bigger picture.

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Method

Not a shift of perspective, a shift of state


Positive, lasting change does not happen on the surface, within the familiar, or overnight. It needs a foundation that is both stable and flexible and grants you the safety that makes real solutions possible in the first place.

When the state in which you meet a situation changes, your actions change by themselves. This is exactly where we begin.

With patience, everything moves faster, goes deeper and lasts longer.

Dr. Christopher Schwake, somatic coaching in Potsdam

What I bring

For you, your mission, your life


Presence, awareness and inner strength

Daily practice of meditation and the internal martial arts since 2006, teaching since 2008, more than 36 retreats of several weeks each.

Psychological expertise

PhD, MSc and BSc in psychology, licensed non-medical psychotherapist (Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie), member of the BDP.

The art of transformation

Systemic-integrative, hypnotherapeutic and body-centered. For change that does not stop at insight.

Dr. Christopher Schwake in Potsdam

About me

Science, craft, stillness


I am a psychologist with a doctorate (Dr. phil.), a state-licensed non-medical psychotherapist (Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie), and I have been teaching meditation, Qi Gong and Tai Chi for more than 15 years. These three strands form the foundation of everything I do today.

I live with my family in Potsdam and love creating conditions in which people meet themselves on a deeper level.

Voices

My clients’ experiences


Three voices from ongoing work, approved word for word and translated from German.

“Things I believed could not be changed turned out to be adjustable. Not a single hour was even one minute wasted.”
— Simon R., entrepreneur

“The decision that is truly felt is so much stronger than the one that is only understood.”
— Felix, coaching client

“Trust, professional depth and real change: an investment with lasting effect.”
— Jörn Kurth, CEO

Your first step

How to begin


1 · Choose a time

Choose a free slot online, 30 minutes, free of charge and without obligation.

2 · Talk it through

We talk about your situation, and you experience directly how I work.

3 · Decide in your own time

No sales pitch, no pressure. You decide whether and how to continue.

Let’s stay in touch

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