Manuela (she/they) brings 18 years of experience in consulting and project-coordination and 12 years in facilitation. We work with individuals, groups and organisations through facilitation, trainings, retreats, festivals and conferences.
The projects and people we support are embodied as local communities, virtual networks, leadership teams and visionary individuals – in institutional, corporate as well as collective informal structures.
They all have in common to strive to make difference, and are ready to start by putting community, purpose and healing into the center.
The main bodies of work we are known for are Dragon Dreaming, Social Presencing Theater, Vision Rites and Collaboration Incubators. Recent works add Generative Facilitation, Embodied Play and Remote Wilderness Immersions.
Depending on the scope, context and needs of our clients, we operate in collaboration with partners from the Vanilla Way network.
2023-2024 Participating in the Generative Facilitation Certification Program
2022 Co-Organizers of Touch&Play Festival Germany
2018 – 2019 Co-founder of Collaboration Incubators, Berlin and CA
2017 Member of Evolutionary Leaders Community, CA, US
2016 – 2017 Dragon Dreaming workshops in collaboration with Reinvent the World, NY, US
2017 Member and Employee of SmartDe.org Coop, Berlin
2016 – 2017 Social Presencing Theater Advanced Training, in Rosendale, NY, US
2016 Initiating Vanilla Way as Change Agency Network
2015 Co-initiation of Betula & Mamabuche, Contemporary Shamanism, in Klein Hundorf, Germany
2015 Contributor to Community Project Moos Berlin
2012 – 2015 Start-up Consulting and Training for Social Impact gGmbH, Berlin
2016 – 2017 Board Member at co-working space Thinkfarm Berlin
2014 – 2017 Founding member co-working space Thinkfarm Berlin
2011 – 2014 Co-founding of the international and Berlin local Dragon Dreaming empty centered organisation
2012 Dragon Dreaming Project Design Trainer Training in Upper Austria 2010 Founding of Vanilla Way Consultancy
2010 and 2012 Learning Yoga & Meditation practices, journeys through India and Latin-America
2007 – 2009 Account Manager for global network agency TBWA, for Apple & Absolut Vodka, Berlin
2006 – 2007 Junior Consultant at Ad and PR Agency Scholz & Friends, Berlin
2006 Junior Consultant at creative-agency plantage, Berlin
2005 Internship at creative-agency Aimaq Rapp Stolle, Berlin
2000 – 2004 FH Neu-Ulm: Business studies with focus on Marketing, Sales and Accounting, Diploma in Business Administration