Counselling, coaching and mediation is offered by me, Dr. Lars Weckbecker, founder of Ayama – Centre for Re:Connective Arts.

With my academic training and years of work as a university professor in the field of media and communication, I have a deep insight into the ways in which communication, verbal and non-verbal, can build community – connection, trust, commonality and bonding – or create conflict and, if not resolved, disconnection or even dissociation and adversary – within and outside of ourselves.

With my more than ten years of ongoing research, practice and exploration into questions, spaces and arts concerning love and loving, conscious relating, psychology, trauma, embodiment and grounded spirituality and activism, I bring deep awareness and knowledge and a large toolbox of methods, approaches and techniques for self-inquiry, transformation processes and community growth by facilitating reconnection and healing in a multitude of constellations and areas in our lives.

With my current training as a Systemic Counsellor/Therapist and soon also practitioner of psychotherapy, I am deepening and widening my skills and set of tools to even more effectively assist individuals and groups in realizing a reconnected and hence healthier, more joyful, more content and fulfilled version of themselves.

With my compassionate, sensitive, empathic and non-judgemental presence, listening and guidance during our sessions, I offer to assist you – as an individual, family, couple, friends, polycule, tribe, group, adversaries, network, organization or community – in:

• clarifying your concern
• identifying and understanding the layers of disconnection – inside, outside and/or between you – underlying your concern
• addressing and integrating disconnected aspects of yourself, such as lingering (traumatic) experiences and patterns from the past that may interfere with the realization of your potential in the present
• identifying and activating your own innate resources and potential for transformation, healing and growth
• learning and applying useful tools, methods and practices from the toolbox of Re:Connective Arts that assist you in healing and in navigating relationships consciously and ethically
• guiding you into reconnection and resolution

I integrate a variety of established approaches into my work, based on the realization and science-backed insight that success in counselling and therapy is based much more on the quality of connection and level of attunement between client and therapist/counsellor than on the method used. This may sound surprising to some. What is crucially important is a genuine human connection between client and counsellor/therapist and how sensitive and attuned the counsellor/therapist is to the needs of the client, including the ability to (intuitively) choose methods that resonate well with their being.

My work is flexibly and pragmatically guided by five main approaches to counselling and therapy:

• trauma theory and therapy
• intuitive and compassionate inquiry
• body-oriented approaches
• systemic & (social) constructivist approaches
• humanistic approaches

These allow me to meet my clients on their own terms and tune in with their needs instead of simply applying a method that tries to solve their problem. What we need is genuine, caring and compassionate human connection, not “distanced professionalism” or “one size fits all” approaches.