Born in 1966, the father of two children, he studied Bachelors in Social Care in Germany. He is an experienced psychotherapist, a gestalt therapist. He learned mentoring with Marlow Hotchkiss and Gigi Coyle, couple council with Amber McIntyre and David ‘Jesse’ Jessup and school council with Joe Provisor. All these teachers are from the Ojal Foundation.

He learned to lead vision quest with School of Lost Borders in California, with Steven Foster and Meredith Little, and with V. and H. Nitschko in Germany.

Holger is the co-founder and head of the Eschwege Institute (www.eschwege-institut.de) and his “Campus Peregrini” training academy, where the council ceremony is a living part of all activities.

Together with the faculty of international teachers, he offers workshops and trainings for council facilitators, a guide through the process of change and a vision quest guide.

Holger understands council from the point of view of Martin Buber – “the relationship I-You” – as a safe place in which we offer ourselves to be this present “You” to each other, because we need one another to give meaning to our existence, to remind ourselves what we have always known about the path to the heart of all hearts and to maintain our humanity.