When Your Life No Longer Feels Like Your Own
Sometimes everything changes – from one day to the next, or gradually over months and years. People lose their home, their language, and their sense of orientation. Not only outwardly, but inwardly as well. Familiar structures fall away, and the life they once knew can seem out of reach.
Whether through displacement, migration, violence, or other difficult experiences, many people carry within them experiences that leave them feeling estranged from themselves and from their own life story. It can feel as though one has fallen out of one’s own life. One may still be functioning – perhaps. But the connection is missing: inner grounding, and the feeling of truly being present.
In such moments, spaces are needed in which rest and reorientation can become possible – in a way that preserves dignity, supports stability, and places our shared humanity at the centre.
Many people nowadays live with experiences of displacement, migration, or difficult transitions. They are often navigating complex life situations shaped by uncertainty, administrative challenges, cultural upheaval, or previous traumatic experiences.
These challenges do not only make everyday life more difficult; they often also affect integration. Integration is more than learning a language or finding one’s way through practical systems. People coming from difficult contexts often also need inner support – stability, orientation, and at times psychological guidance – in order to arrive in a new life at all.
The services outlined below were developed with precisely this in mind. They offer support in stabilising everyday life, provide relief, and encourage new orientation. At their core are dignity, self-determination, and the strengthening of inner resources.
The consultations and workshops take place at Pangea Haus in Wilmersdorf and can also be offered in Russian or English (additionally to German), depending on need.
Services
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👤 Individual consultations
Psychoeducation on trauma, common responses, and coping strategies
Support in dealing with traumatic experiences
Help with stabilisation and orientation in everyday life
Development of individual resources and self-care.
Languages: German and English.
Appointments can be arranged individually within the following hours:
🕒 Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
(not available every day – no regular office hours)
📌 at Pangea Haus (link)
📩 Prior registration required -
👤 Individual consultations for people without an explicit trauma history who would like support during life transitions or phases of decision-making.
Support with personal, family-related, or professional challenges
Guidance during periods of change and decision-making
Encouragement of self-reflection and capacity for action
Development of clear next steps and goals.
Languages: German and English.
Appointments can be arranged individually within the following hours:
🕒 Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
(not available every day – no regular office hours)
📌 at Pangea Haus (link)
📩 Prior registration required -
👤 In cooperation with SiD – Systemik im Dialog Berlin gUG, ZIGMAL e.V. offers confidential, one-to-one conversations at Pangea Haus for men who are going through personal, social, or emotional transitions. The service is intended both as direct support and, where appropriate, as a point of referral to suitable services in Berlin.
Languages: English.
Upcoming dates in April 2026 (Mondays):
04 May
11 May
18 May
25 May
🕒 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
📌 at Pangea Haus (link)
📩 Prior registration required – request@zigmal.org -
👤 Psychosocial consultation hour with Dr. Zhana Karadenizova (licensed psychological psychotherapist with accredited specialisation in cognitive behavioural therapy for adults) for people who need short-term support or an initial orientation in difficult life situations.
It offers a professional assessment of the current situation, clarification of existing challenges, and the development of possible next steps.
Initial orientation and clarification of current difficulties
Support in challenging life situations
Development of initial next steps
Referral to suitable follow-up support services
Languages: German and English.
Appointments in 2026 every two weeks, subject to individual registration:
06 May
20 May
🕒 Wednesday evenings
(not available every day – no regular office hours)
📌 at Pangea Haus (link)
📩 Prior registration required -
👤👤 Open Seitai group practice for people who would like to find relaxation, inner balance, and renewed energy through movement, breathing, and body awareness.
The group practice offers a protected space in which, with attentive guidance, the body can rediscover its natural capacity for self-regulation.
Through elements of Seitai practice, tension may be released, and a renewed sense of awareness can be experienced. Participation is possible with or without previous experience.
Support in working with physical and emotional tension
Encouragement of natural movement and self-regulation processes
Space for restand spontaneous movement
Led by Aitor Gomez, an experienced Seitai practitioner
Language: German
Upcoming dates for April 2026:
10 April
17 April
24 April
🕒 6:00 p.m.
📌 at Pangea Haus (link)
📩 Registration recommended
👕 Comfortable clothing recommended -
👤👤 A facilitated small-group process designed to build trust and connection. The group consists of five men and meets across five sessions. Its focus is on clarifying needs, wishes, and perspectives, while strengthening personal responsibility and group autonomy. At the end, the group decides together whether and how the process should continue.
The format can take place either with an existing group or as a newly formed circle.
Languages: English.
Upcoming dates for Mai to June 2026 (Mondays):
04 May
18 May
01 June
15 June
🕒 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
📌 at Pangea Haus (link)
📩 Prior registration required – request@zigmal.org -
An open, ongoing group format held every two weeks. The men’s circle follows a clearly structured, facilitated setting and is based on the classic talking-circle format: speaking and listening in turn – without giving advice. The exchange is complemented by simple body-awareness exercises. The group remains open to new participants and offers space for honest exchange, self-reflection, and belonging.
Languages: English.
Upcoming dates for Mai to June 2026 (Mondays):
11 May
25 May
08 June
22 June
🕒 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
📌 at Pangea Haus (link)
📩 Prior registration required – request@zigmal.org
About me
I am currently training in systemic trauma therapy and have already successfully completed the certification in systemic approaches and trauma. At present, I am preparing for the licensing exam as a Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie
(HP-Psych).
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