Fostering character strengths and personal resources with Positive Psychology and Vagus Nerve Training.
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Holistic Resilience
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Explore ways to foster embodied resilience to move forward with confidence, wherever you're headed next.
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Resilience doesn’t mean being calm all the time, and it doesn’t mean ignoring intensity. In my work, resilient individuals stay connected to yourself, even when life is dynamic — and they have practical ways to return to clarity, compassion and agency.
This training combines evidence-based Positive Psychology, mindfulness, and self- reflection in a format that is understandable and highly transferable into daily life.
Core Themes
Mindfulness for awareness, clarity and wise decisions
Strengths-based organizational and personal development: recognizing potential and what truly supports you
Emotional balance: flowing with emotions and dealing with pressure as well as stress.
Nurturing environment: creating conditions for authenticity, focus, engagement and vitality
Values & meaning: finding a purpose that feels true and sustainable
Simple, short body-based practices that support nervous system regulation in daily routines (non-clinical, practical).
Format
1-4 day training (in-house / organisations / education providers)
structured, practical, with clear takeaways and implementation steps
suitable for teams, leaders and individuals
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You want to become a resilience trainer who includes somatic approaches? Or maybe you already work as a coach, trainer, yoga teacher, therapist oder educator?
This training has been created for you if you intend to offer resource-oriented and body-based methods deriving from yoga, embodiment and Positive Psychology in a responsible way. We explore the nervous system not as something to “fix,” but as a meaningful lens for:
understanding stress and emotional dynamics
building supportive habits and environments
working with energy, motivation and boundaries in a grounded way
What you will learn:
nervous system basics explained in everyday language (polyvagal-informed)
embodiment methods: body awareness, posture, breath and yoga
mindfulness in the body as a core competence for clarity and stability
strength- and value-based resource work to explore potential and meaning
how to guide short sequences (1:1 and groups) with clear framing and consent
Upcoming training remote in German:
Via Zoom 6x donnerstags von 09:00–15:00 Uhr: 22. & 29. Mai 2026 & 5., 12., 19., 26. Juni 2026
ZUR ANMELDUNG
This training is not psychotherapy, not trauma therapy, and not a medical qualification. It is a professional education and training program for working with psychologically stable adults. It does not replace medical or psychotherapeutic care.
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Mindful as well as intuitive movement
Invitations to dive into body awareness through breath, asana, nervous-system balancing exercises (without pressure or “fixing”)
Meditations supporting you to center yourself and explore self-awareness
Space for self-experience — practical, human and down-to-earth
A practice that respects different bodies, moods and nervous systems
On Request for your Team
Meet the Trainer
Carla Sophie Tiemann
With a professional background in Social Entrepreneurship (M.Sc.), European Politics (B.A.), Positive Psychology and Resilience Training, Carla’s resource-oriented approaches support you in experiencing mental clarity, body awareness, emotional balance, and a sense of meaning — in everyday life and at work.
Currently based in Hamburg, Germany she offers her services in German and English language.
Qualifications
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Roskilde University — M.Sc. in Social Entrepreneurship & Management
February 2013 – September 2015
Overall grade: Excellent
Curriculum: Social entrepreneurship & social business, sustainability & strategy management, CSR, work & organizational psychology, organizational development, social & environmental innovation, academic research & writing, marketing.Exchange semester: University of Hamburg, Sep–Dec 2014.
Internship (4 months): Berlin — Men’s Health Foundation (Stiftung Männergesundheit): fundraising, academic research, strategy & operational management.
Additional training: “Primary Leadership and Emotional Intelligence in Leadership,” Case Western Reserve University.
Maastricht University — B.A. in European Studies
July 2009 – June 2012
Overall grade: Very good
Curriculum: EU politics with modules in European history, law, culture, development cooperation, political science, economics, philosophy, sociology, negotiation skills, and academic research & writing.Exchange semester: Institut d’Études Politiques de Rennes (France), Sep–Dec 2011.
Activities:
7-month active member of the United Nations Student Association: fundraising for local projects in developing countries; organizing seminars/lectures; arranging overseas internships for Maastricht students.
6-month volunteer at MISEREOR (Aachen), focusing on fundraising.
4-week internship at ZDF (Mainz): journalism and media production in society & politics.
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Coaching
- Certified Consultant in Positive Psychology with focus on Positive Leadership in Business, Positive Parenting & Education, and Positive Embodiment, Inntal Institut (2024)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for ADHD, Dr. Russ Harris (2025)
- Certified Parent Counselor for ADD/ADHD, Institut für Integrative Lerntherapie und Weiterbildung (2025)
- Leader in Active Parenting of Teens, Dr. Michael Popkin (2025)
- Introduction to Ego States Therapy, Hamburg Institute for Trauma Therapy (2024)
- Introductory Course in Systemic Transactional Analysis, Kessel & Kessel (2023)
- Certified Specialist Advisor for High Sensitivity (HSP), BIEK (2022)
- Certified “Resilience Trainer in Nature”, German Academy for Forest Bathing & Health (2022)
Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation
- Meditation Teacher Training (2016)
- 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (2016)
- 300h+ Advanced Trainings in Yoga Therapy for Trauma & Eating Disorders, Yin Yoga, and Inclusive/Trauma-sensitive Mindfulness (since 2016) -
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