Decision: what to do?
At work, in your private life or in a relationship: you want to see what really matters to you and what options you have.
Orientation. Clarity. Decision.
Clarity leads to action. To be clear is to be yourself.
When you’re stuck, can’t decide, your thoughts keep going round in the same loops or you no longer understand yourself, brooding won’t help. Sometimes friends help, the kind who listen and don’t rush in with “clever tips”.
And sometimes it makes sense to talk to someone who isn’t part of your world, who takes a neutral view of your situation and, in a professionally guided coaching conversation, helps you sort out your thoughts: clarifying what it’s really about, shifting perspective, discovering your strengths and your choices.
Personal and approachable (and on first-name terms). Clear and on equal footing.
For people & personal questions
Coaching & Clarity
I am a certified Master Coach and support people when they want to reflect on their situation, find their bearings, recognise connections, discover new options for action and arrive at decisions.
Explore coachingFor institutions, teams & projects
Concept & Communication
For institutions, for example in the creative industries, I develop engaging and coherent concepts for art and culture projects. With communication expertise, an artist’s eye and experience in team and project work.
Explore concept & communicationWhen a conversation can help
Something’s bothering you: an issue, a problem, a crisis.
Perhaps you’re facing a decision. Whether at work or in your private life. Perhaps you have a habit that bothers you, or a particular inner or outer conflict keeps coming back. Or there’s something you would simply like to understand better. Caught up in our own lives, we can’t see our blind spots. Coaching is a professionally guided change of perspective in a safe, discreet setting. We take a look together, without ready-made answers or rushing to judgement.
You’re going round in circles
Thoughts on a merry-go-round, doubts, inner conflicts. A view from outside can give you a new perspective. The right question can bring insight.
Understanding yourself better
You want to recognise your own patterns, act more consciously, widen your room for manoeuvre and take a fresh look at your habits, even without a pressing reason.
How I work
Understanding what it (really) is.
Being showered with advice (usually unasked for, too) is annoying and rarely fits. What matters more is how a situation is put together from your point of view. Once you grasp how your problem or an issue came about, or what else it is (still) connected to, it is often only a small step to seeing what keeps you stuck in it and how that can change.
You don’t need to know straight away what the solution looks like. For a start, it already helps to understand what it’s actually (really) about, or where you might be sabotaging yourself.
I listen, I don’t judge you, I help you put what’s going on into order and I pay attention to patterns and connections. With targeted questions and new perspectives, we work out what lies beneath the surface. Beliefs, conditioning and automatic reactions shape our lives more than we realise.
Sometimes what’s needed is clarity (“using your head to live from the heart”), and sometimes it’s important to first get solid ground back under your feet, to know where you stand and what’s possible. Together we find out what makes sense right now. My role is to accompany you and offer fresh impulses, on equal footing.
- A professional view from outside
- No unsolicited or hasty advice
- Your thoughts, answers and insights are what count
WE HAVE A CHOICE
Love it.Change it.Leave it.
Accept. Change. Let go.
There is always a choice.
Much of life lies outside our influence
A skilfully guided conversation can untangle a jumble of thoughts, reveal connections, perspectives and options for action, make decisions easier, strengthen you or be the start of a journey. It’s not about telling anyone how to feel or think, but about reflecting on yourself and your beliefs, relationships or contexts. There is no standard solution for everyone, only your solution for you.
What I offer
Straightforward.
A phone call is free of charge. Afterwards, you’ll have a feel for whether working together could be right for you.
Together we agree on what you’d like and what setting makes sense. After an exchange of emails or a phone call, you decide whether we arrange a session.
No conversation automatically has to lead to further sessions. Life is complex enough; let’s not make it complicated. → Email enquiry
We can talk in person (with me in Essen-Rüttenscheid or at a place of your choice), by phone, online via Zoom or outdoors on a walk together. Support via WhatsApp* is also possible.
*) or another messenger app
60 €60 minutes
90 €90 minutes
plus 19% VAT / travel costs by arrangement, if applicable.
KATRIN BRACKMANN · ABOUT ME
“We don’t see things as they are.
We see them as we are.”
I like this quote because I’m interested in how models of the world and beliefs shape personal and social action, and how, with that in mind, people can perceive things more consciously, reflect on them and evaluate them sensibly.
The complexity and acceleration of the world we live in calls for resilience, self-awareness, clarity, and the ability to make decisions and shape things.
I am a coach, and also a visual artist and qualified designer, and I develop public art projects. In all of this, I love to explore and learn. What drives me is creating spaces for reflection, depth and inspiration in one way or another, and sparking respectful encounters, exchange and changes of perspective along the way. Through my art, in coaching or through project-based work.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND / TRAINING AND FURTHER EDUCATION
As a certified systemic Master Coach and NLP* Teaching Trainer (DVNLP), I bring solid experience in change processes, communication and personal development. My training and experience enable me to guide both individual and group processes.
My strengths include flexibility and a meta-perspective (the ability to see the bigger picture). When needed, I also address difficult issues: with empathy, on equal footing and occasionally with a touch of humour.
*) Trainer in coaching methods, including NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), a coaching and communication approach that works with patterns of perception, language and behaviour. It is also known as the “language of change” or the “art of HOW”. It covers principles of change, personal development, effective communication (inwardly with yourself and outwardly with others), learning and deliberately conditioning yourself for “success” (which, of course, means something different to everyone).
Coaching means supporting a person who, acting from an “adult self”, is able to make their own decisions. It is not therapy (although the methods do overlap in places).
- Systemic Master Coach and (Teaching) Trainer
Resilience, conflict and mental coachingTraining and further education, certified to the standards of DVNLP (German NLP Association) - Graves Value CoachSpiral Dynamics / values development
- Public Speaking AcademyTobias Beck
- Mastery of Training and LeadingYvonne Schönau and Christian Gärtner
- LebensschuleDieter Lange
- WeeklongDr. Joe Dispenza, Florida
The first step
Every journey begins with the first step
… even the one to the moon (with a step out of the front door).
If you’d like to find out whether a conversation with me is the right step for you now and suits what’s on your mind, just get in touch, with no obligation.
Simply write me a few lines about your topic and when I can reach you by phone. I usually get back to you within 48 hours.
If it’s urgent, please say so.
When in doubt: just give it a go, it might turn out well.
Art · Culture · Project Development
Concept, creation, coordination.
From the initial enquiry through to implementation, I develop ideas, concepts, narratives and outline schedules for projects in the cultural and creative industries, such as artist exchanges, exhibitions and events. I clarify what a project should achieve, for whom, how best to get there and what added value it might also create.
I love designing projects like these, giving them a clear shape and creating project dossiers that convince in both content and visuals. I’m also happy to take care of delivery: project management, coordination, facilitation and press work.
Concept & Strategy
Developing ideas
- Concept paper including project outline and architecture (formats, participants, venues, workflows …)
- Building blocks for funding applications, professional marketing and the final report
Design & Visual Communication
Project exposés
- Professionally designed project dossiers
- Corporate design and applications (brochures, flyers, catalogues …)
- Social media content for Instagram, Facebook or TikTok, for example
Presentation & Implementation
Project management
- Coordination, team support, press work
- Facilitation, workshops, talks
- Curating exhibitions