In my work as a coach, mentor and trainer, I align myself with the humanistic view of humanity of Charlotte Bühler, Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. They see people as relationship-oriented, free and decision-making, responsible, educationally interested and striving for personal development beings. Man is unique, capable and inherently good. As a holistic being with a constructive core by nature, he already carries the solutions to problems within himself.
Ein weiterer Aspekt in meiner Tätigkeit ist die Individualpsychologie von Alfred Adler. Er sieht den Menschen als ein zielorientiertes und soziales Wesen. Wichtig für das Verständnis über den Menschen ist es, sich dessen Ziele vor Augen zu halten. Dabei unterscheidet Adler zwischen bewussten Zielen („Ich will etwas haben, also kaufe ich es mir.“) und den verborgenen Zielen, die auf der unbewussten Ebene zu finden sind. Ich finde es im Coaching sehr spannend, ganz gezielt zu diesen unbewussten Zielen zu gelangen und sich diese bewusst zu machen. Hier kann schnell ein Perspektivenwechsel beginnen.
In addition, I orientate myself on positive psychology, originally mentioned by Abraham Maslow for the first time in 1954 and further developed by the American psychologist Martin Seligman in 1998. It deals with the basics of the good life and with favorable conditions of well-being that make a life worth living. His considerations also tie in with the flow experience defined by the Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and with the ideas of humanistic psychology.
In the context of my work on prevention and health promotion, I also follow Aaron Antonovsky's concept of salutogenesis. He assumes that everyone has the basic desire to increase the health shares and thereby become healthier. Accordingly, the salutogenesis model aims to support people in strengthening their health potential. When using this model, the existing resources are used.
Last but not least, I supplement my image of man with the work of Robert S. Hartman (1910-1973), the founder of formal axiology (mathematically exact value science), which is particularly valuable to me. He was a mathematician and professor of philosophy and fled from the Nazis to the USA in 1932 during World War II. The atrocities of the Nazis were the decisive reason why Robert S. Hartman devoted himself entirely to research into the "good" in the second half of his life. He was driven by the question of why the brutal and inhuman rulers always seemed to be the more powerful in history. He himself regarded human life as infinitely valuable.
