Hosting Team
Katherina Longariva
Italy
I am a lake.
She is purposeful, courageous, bubbly, energetic in thinking and doing, powerful and empathetic. She brings things straight to the point. Katherina likes to travel without a goal and has longing for mountain peaks and tropical underwater worlds.
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RITA VENTURINI
Portugal
Shepherd at Quinta Ten Chi
I am not much of anything. I am the moment that ends, the one that is already started and the one that maybe should have not been there at all. At times I
notice being the moment of sorrow. Other times I am the sensation in the front of the belly, and again the laughter on the face of the grandmother. I remember being the power of the ocean wave crashing against a rock. Witnessing all of these moments I have been getting closer to being nothing, and all. That started in Italy many years ago and has been continuing around
the world, from California to Portugal following the routes of the old discoverers, just all backward.
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I trained as a scientist and as a mover/improviser, and am now shepherding the emergence of a center for Embodied Wisdom at Quinta Ten Chi in Sintra, as well as being a facilitator of embodied experiences in Lisbon.
DIRK BRÄUNINGER
Germany
Yogastah Kuru Karmani -
Established in Being perform action
After more than 30 years in international management Dirks today's passion is about the sustainable creation of mindful and appreciative spaces for individual and collective development.
His focus is on methods for developing inner intuitive, non-cognitive resources.
Starting to practice Social Presencing Theater in 2015 he facilitated more than 20 different SPT events with allover about 200 participants. Since January 2017 he is offering basic courses at Alanus Werkhaus.
JOHANNA GALL
Austria
I am the nature and humanity loving dancer and the curiously playfull experimentalist.
Johanna is working with adults in the field of social care and mental health support since 2002. Since 2011 she is responsible for a placement of social care support and is leading a team of social care workers, helpers and volunteers to enable and empower adults with disabilities and their social fields.
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She truly believes and experiences more and more so, that when open minds, open hearts and open will are finding each other, wonderful things are happening.
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PETER HOFMANN
Austria
Passion for the in-between
With his expertise on designing and facilitating learning spaces for small groups (teams) up to big groups (conferences) Peter has worked over the last 15 years for governmental institutions as the European Commission, Council of Europe, UN and national ministries as well as for large non-governmental associations such as WWF, Greenpeace and others.
With his company “LIMINA- Learning in Transition” Peter is focusing on change and transition processes. Inspired by the Theory U he has started several years ago to engage in and with mindfulness. After some courses in this area he has found the world of education as the main application field for his work with mindfulness – targeting teachers but also parents. Since 2016 Peter is engaging also in Social Presencing Theatre. In March 2019 he has finished the one year training for facilitators on SPT by the Presencing Institute in Berlin.
Peter lives with his family in Vienna.
AGATHE PELTEREAU-VILLENEUVE
France
SPT teacher and practitioner
The idea to create a gathering for SPT practitioners was born in August 2017. From the first thought and impulse it took just a few days to form a curious, dedicated and courageous team full of love about Social Presencing Theater.
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Katherina Longariva
Italy
I am a lake.
She is purposeful, courageous, bubbly, energetic in thinking and doing, powerful and empathetic. She brings things straight to the point. Katherina likes to travel without a goal and has longing for mountain peaks and tropical underwater worlds.
​
RITA VENTURINI
Portugal
Shepherd at Quinta Ten Chi
I am not much of anything. I am the moment that ends, the one that is already started and the one that maybe should have not been there at all. At times I
notice being the moment of sorrow. Other times I am the sensation in the front of the belly, and again the laughter on the face of the grandmother. I remember being the power of the ocean wave crashing against a rock. Witnessing all of these moments I have been getting closer to being nothing, and all. That started in Italy many years ago and has been continuing around
the world, from California to Portugal following the routes of the old discoverers, just all backward.
​
I trained as a scientist and as a mover/improviser, and am now shepherding the emergence of a center for Embodied Wisdom at Quinta Ten Chi in Sintra, as well as being a facilitator of embodied experiences in Lisbon.
DIRK BRÄUNINGER
Germany
Yogastah Kuru Karmani -
Established in Being perform action
After more than 30 years in international management Dirks today's passion is about the sustainable creation of mindful and appreciative spaces for individual and collective development.
His focus is on methods for developing inner intuitive, non-cognitive resources.
Starting to practice Social Presencing Theater in 2015 he facilitated more than 20 different SPT events with allover about 200 participants. Since January 2017 he is offering basic courses at Alanus Werkhaus.
JOHANNA GALL
Austria
I am the nature and humanity loving dancer and the curiously playfull experimentalist.
Johanna is working with adults in the field of social care and mental health support since 2002. Since 2011 she is responsible for a placement of social care support and is leading a team of social care workers, helpers and volunteers to enable and empower adults with disabilities and their social fields.
​
She truly believes and experiences more and more so, that when open minds, open hearts and open will are finding each other, wonderful things are happening.
​
PETER HOFMANN
Austria
Passion for the in-between
With his expertise on designing and facilitating learning spaces for small groups (teams) up to big groups (conferences) Peter has worked over the last 15 years for governmental institutions as the European Commission, Council of Europe, UN and national ministries as well as for large non-governmental associations such as WWF, Greenpeace and others.
With his company “LIMINA- Learning in Transition” Peter is focusing on change and transition processes. Inspired by the Theory U he has started several years ago to engage in and with mindfulness. After some courses in this area he has found the world of education as the main application field for his work with mindfulness – targeting teachers but also parents. Since 2016 Peter is engaging also in Social Presencing Theatre. In March 2019 he has finished the one year training for facilitators on SPT by the Presencing Institute in Berlin.
Peter lives with his family in Vienna.
AGATHE PELTEREAU-VILLENEUVE
France
SPT teacher and practitioner
Katherina Longariva
Italy
I am a lake.
She is purposeful, courageous, bubbly, energetic in thinking and doing, powerful and empathetic. She brings things straight to the point. Katherina likes to travel without a goal and has longing for mountain peaks and tropical underwater worlds.
​
RITA VENTURINI
Portugal
Shepherd at Quinta Ten Chi
I am not much of anything. I am the moment that ends, the one that is already started and the one that maybe should have not been there at all. At times I
notice being the moment of sorrow. Other times I am the sensation in the front of the belly, and again the laughter on the face of the grandmother. I remember being the power of the ocean wave crashing against a rock. Witnessing all of these moments I have been getting closer to being nothing, and all. That started in Italy many years ago and has been continuing around
the world, from California to Portugal following the routes of the old discoverers, just all backward.
​
I trained as a scientist and as a mover/improviser, and am now shepherding the emergence of a center for Embodied Wisdom at Quinta Ten Chi in Sintra, as well as being a facilitator of embodied experiences in Lisbon.
DIRK BRÄUNINGER
Germany
Yogastah Kuru Karmani -
Established in Being perform action
After more than 30 years in international management Dirks today's passion is about the sustainable creation of mindful and appreciative spaces for individual and collective development.
His focus is on methods for developing inner intuitive, non-cognitive resources.
Starting to practice Social Presencing Theater in 2015 he facilitated more than 20 different SPT events with allover about 200 participants. Since January 2017 he is offering basic courses at Alanus Werkhaus.
JOHANNA GALL
Austria
I am the nature and humanity loving dancer and the curiously playfull experimentalist.
Johanna is working with adults in the field of social care and mental health support since 2002. Since 2011 she is responsible for a placement of social care support and is leading a team of social care workers, helpers and volunteers to enable and empower adults with disabilities and their social fields.
​
She truly believes and experiences more and more so, that when open minds, open hearts and open will are finding each other, wonderful things are happening.
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DHEERA PETRA BAUER
Germany
I am passionate for embodied consciousness for over 25 years. I love it deeply!
WandelCoach
transformative change
After 10 years of experience in the field of international development, Sebastian is working as a
consultant in the field of organizational development all over the world. In his work he is passionate
about a facilitation that attends from the not-knowing, holding the space for what wants to emerge.
Deeply rooted in awareness practices, Sebastian combines systemic constellations and Social
Presencing Theater with organizational development in his work.
SEBASTIAN JUNG
Germany
Creating system-awareness
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RIE GILSDORF
United States
Big-Picture Thinker, Double-Agent of Dualities
I have always been a middle-person, one who can see and feel both sides of any coin. I have realized that this makes me a translator and a double-agent who can bridge divides by carrying information back and forth to restore wholeness. I aspire to connect humans across distance and difference; to integrate mind and body, science and art, healing and change-making; to bring a somatic consciousness to anti-racism transformation work and a racial consciousness to the SPT community.
I hold advanced degrees in Biology and Modern Dance. I have been a teacher, principal, parent and advocate for innovative schools that focus on developing children’s brilliance through the arts. I currently provide coaching, facilitation and movement practice groups through Embody Equity.