Bio Werner
Psychotherapist • Couple Therapist and Relationship Coach • Business Coach • Body therapist • Integral Human Design Coach and Trainer • born 1959 in Vienna • married • father of three grown-up children.
Regular occupation: freelance therapist with a personally owned office since 1984 • Teaching therapist and supervisor for body centered psychotherapy since 1989 • 1993 Foundation of the Vienna Institute for Body Centered Psychotherapy • Occupation in the socio-psychiatric-clinical field 1994-95 • 2001 Foundation of the INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN Institute, which is involved in the development of the INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN Synthesis, offers coaching and training programs.
Certified Postural Integrator (GPI) since 1984 • Certified Radix body psychotherapist (by the ERA, the European Radix Association) since 1986 • teaching therapist, trainer and supervisor in the European Radix Training 1989-1994 • Advanced trainings in Systemic Family Therapy (ÖAGG) 1996-1999, in Systemic Constellation work (SYST) 1998-2001 • Advanced trainings in Human Design System (IHDS) since 1997, Human Design analyst for personality- and partnership-analyses since 1999, internationally certified Human Design System Trainer since 2001 • Advanced trainings in Integrative Gestalt therapy, Analytic body centered psychotherapy, Cranio-sacral therapy, Core Contact, Points & Positions Training with Will Davis (European Reichian School - Institute of Functional Analysis), Life Trainings with Paul Lowe, Encounter-centered Couple Therapy Training (Tikkun) with Hedy and Yumi Schleifer, NARM Neuro-affective relationship model Training with Michael Mokrus, and other training.
European Certificate for Psychotherapy (ECP), included in the European Register of Psychotherapists. Member of the Austrian Federal Association for Psychotherapy (ÖBVP).
https://www.pitzal.at - Werner's Psychotherapy • Couple Therapy • Coaching website (german + english)
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Psychotherapist • Couple Therapist and Relationship Coach • Business Coach • Body therapist • Integral Human Design Coach and Trainer • born 1959 in Vienna • married • father of three grown-up children.
Regular occupation: freelance therapist with a personally owned office since 1984 • Teaching therapist and supervisor for body centered psychotherapy since 1989 • 1993 Foundation of the Vienna Institute for Body Centered Psychotherapy • Occupation in the socio-psychiatric-clinical field 1994-95 • 2001 Foundation of the INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN Institute, which is involved in the development of the INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN Synthesis, offers coaching and training programs.
Certified Postural Integrator (GPI) since 1984 • Certified Radix body psychotherapist (by the ERA, the European Radix Association) since 1986 • teaching therapist, trainer and supervisor in the European Radix Training 1989-1994 • Advanced trainings in Systemic Family Therapy (ÖAGG) 1996-1999, in Systemic Constellation work (SYST) 1998-2001 • Advanced trainings in Human Design System (IHDS) since 1997, Human Design analyst for personality- and partnership-analyses since 1999, internationally certified Human Design System Trainer since 2001 • Advanced trainings in Integrative Gestalt therapy, Analytic body centered psychotherapy, Cranio-sacral therapy, Core Contact, Points & Positions Training with Will Davis (European Reichian School - Institute of Functional Analysis), Life Trainings with Paul Lowe, Encounter-centered Couple Therapy Training (Tikkun) with Hedy and Yumi Schleifer, NARM Neuro-affective relationship model Training with Michael Mokrus, and other training.
European Certificate for Psychotherapy (ECP), included in the European Register of Psychotherapists. Member of the Austrian Federal Association for Psychotherapy (ÖBVP).
https://www.pitzal.at - Werner's Psychotherapy • Couple Therapy • Coaching website (german + english)
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Some aspects of my journey with the Human Design System (HDS)
INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN (IHD) represents an approach to working with people from a holistic comprehension of their integral 'design' as humans. It evolved from working with Human Design System (HDS) and witnessing the effects on both myself and my clients.
Since 1998, I have been fortunate to train under esteemed HDS figures like Ra Uru Hu, Jürgen Saupe and Martin Grassinger. I even embraced the role of a HDS teacher for a while.
My initial attraction to HDS was quite unconventional. I envisioned it as a tool to enhance my efficiency as a psychotherapist. I hoped that HDS would illuminate certain immutable aspects in my clients, thereby saving them time and money by sparing them unnecessary struggles against unchangeable traits. Yet, to my surprise, I discovered that individuals could indeed evolve in areas where HDS had deemed them 'fixed' and 'defined'.
Together with my wife Laura, we started to view HDS within a greater context which we came to call INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN (IHD). The purpose of IHD was the inclusion and transcendence of the HDS by seeing its proper place within the much larger frame of our comprehensive design as human beings. In a first step, we created the names of all the elements
The frame of reference continually expanded, as it was necessary to be able to make sense of the findings from my hands-on practical experience. Initially, we expanded it together with Richard Rudd to include the GeneKeys perspective, by loading specific Gene Keys language for Centers, Channels and Streams into the Bodygraph, and juxtaposing the Bodygraph with the GoldenPath journey. Later, we included the dimensions of the Integral Approach. We also enriched our understanding by delving into the neuroscience that makes up our design as humans, and by gaining direct insights into our mind's workings through meditation.
My journey with HDS led me through three distinct phases over these last 25 years:
1. Application
In this first phase where I tended to view most people in my life through the HDS lens. I worked with HDS charts with people, and I taught HDS together with Laura.
I undertook two experiments in these early years: one personal, which was the usual HDS experiment for myself; and another where I collected birth information from my psychotherapy and coaching clients. This allowed me to have their charts in the corner of my eye while I worked with them, and use their HDS charts when I reflected on their process. In short, I could test correlation between their charts and their issues and therapeutic process.
These comparative studies in my office helped to reveal some of the misconceptions within HDS. Notably, two presumptions stood out as erroneous: a) the presumption that certain human aspects are immutable 'by design', and b) the presumption that the HDS map displayed personality traits of who the person was born to be.
I became increasingly concerned by the limiting effects of HDS, especially for people who chose it as their only tool for self-exploration. As a psychotherapist, I was unsettled by the practice of HDS 'readings' – the practice of HDS analysts to put the simulacrum of the Bodygraph between themselves and their clients, which most often bypassed true attunement with clients.
2. De-Conditioning Pause
My second phase was a complete withdrawal from the HDS. I felt the need to de-condition myself from HDS conditioning, and to unlearn the language and the numbers that were associated with many of my thoughts. I wanted to be (with) myself and with my friends and clients again, without looking at one or many charts on my inner screen. HDS being a mental virus as Ra Uru Hu once called it, de-conditioning from HDS numbers, terminology, and Menschenbild took longer than anticipated. However, eventually my mind became entirely open again.
3. Renewed Engagement
The third phase began when more and more people reached out to us for various reasons. Some regarding an integration of HDS and the Gene Keys. Some were struggling with the effect of HDS information on their lives, or were disappointed because they hadn't realized their full human potential despite of their HDS experiment. Some were deeply irritated by the perplexing HDS information they encountered online or in paid readings.
Some people had also greatly benefitted from HDS during a certain phase of their development, but were ready to take the next step on their personal journey. Many people came to us stuck in identifications they had built up on the basis of taking HDS factoids as points of orientation and as facts. Some were stuck because they confused the HDS display of their unique filters of consciousness with a map of personality traits, or the person they were born to be.
I felt and still feel a sense of responsibility to share my findings and my experience of this journey with people who want to walk a path of liberation. The inclusive approach of INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN became a kind of rescue clinic for such people. For others, IHD provided a perspective and a platform to outgrow the HDS, or at least a basis for making informed decisions when, why and how to engage with the results of an HDS calculation.
It's unfortunate that 'Human Design' (HD) has become the prevalent term used online for HDS. This fosters the common belief that the HDS calculation and its various interpretations are anywhere near to a display of a comprehensive design of a human being. This linguistic truncation also obscures the fact that HDS is propagated as a system of 'pure doctrine' that shows little openness to reflection or integration with other approaches.
Currently, Richard Rudd – Gene Keys founder and a long term companion and good friend – and I are working on an INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN program that will collect and publish all our findings regarding the HDS, and the main options to include and transcend the HDS and other systems. The program will be released in 2025, and will
- soften and enrich HDS by loading Gene Keys language into the Bodygraph,
- contextualize and include HDS by viewing it as an aspect of our integral 'design' as humans,
- transcend and liberate from HDS by reconnecting with awakening as the original intention of HDS.
back
INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN (IHD) represents an approach to working with people from a holistic comprehension of their integral 'design' as humans. It evolved from working with Human Design System (HDS) and witnessing the effects on both myself and my clients.
Since 1998, I have been fortunate to train under esteemed HDS figures like Ra Uru Hu, Jürgen Saupe and Martin Grassinger. I even embraced the role of a HDS teacher for a while.
My initial attraction to HDS was quite unconventional. I envisioned it as a tool to enhance my efficiency as a psychotherapist. I hoped that HDS would illuminate certain immutable aspects in my clients, thereby saving them time and money by sparing them unnecessary struggles against unchangeable traits. Yet, to my surprise, I discovered that individuals could indeed evolve in areas where HDS had deemed them 'fixed' and 'defined'.
Together with my wife Laura, we started to view HDS within a greater context which we came to call INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN (IHD). The purpose of IHD was the inclusion and transcendence of the HDS by seeing its proper place within the much larger frame of our comprehensive design as human beings. In a first step, we created the names of all the elements
The frame of reference continually expanded, as it was necessary to be able to make sense of the findings from my hands-on practical experience. Initially, we expanded it together with Richard Rudd to include the GeneKeys perspective, by loading specific Gene Keys language for Centers, Channels and Streams into the Bodygraph, and juxtaposing the Bodygraph with the GoldenPath journey. Later, we included the dimensions of the Integral Approach. We also enriched our understanding by delving into the neuroscience that makes up our design as humans, and by gaining direct insights into our mind's workings through meditation.
My journey with HDS led me through three distinct phases over these last 25 years:
1. Application
In this first phase where I tended to view most people in my life through the HDS lens. I worked with HDS charts with people, and I taught HDS together with Laura.
I undertook two experiments in these early years: one personal, which was the usual HDS experiment for myself; and another where I collected birth information from my psychotherapy and coaching clients. This allowed me to have their charts in the corner of my eye while I worked with them, and use their HDS charts when I reflected on their process. In short, I could test correlation between their charts and their issues and therapeutic process.
These comparative studies in my office helped to reveal some of the misconceptions within HDS. Notably, two presumptions stood out as erroneous: a) the presumption that certain human aspects are immutable 'by design', and b) the presumption that the HDS map displayed personality traits of who the person was born to be.
I became increasingly concerned by the limiting effects of HDS, especially for people who chose it as their only tool for self-exploration. As a psychotherapist, I was unsettled by the practice of HDS 'readings' – the practice of HDS analysts to put the simulacrum of the Bodygraph between themselves and their clients, which most often bypassed true attunement with clients.
2. De-Conditioning Pause
My second phase was a complete withdrawal from the HDS. I felt the need to de-condition myself from HDS conditioning, and to unlearn the language and the numbers that were associated with many of my thoughts. I wanted to be (with) myself and with my friends and clients again, without looking at one or many charts on my inner screen. HDS being a mental virus as Ra Uru Hu once called it, de-conditioning from HDS numbers, terminology, and Menschenbild took longer than anticipated. However, eventually my mind became entirely open again.
3. Renewed Engagement
The third phase began when more and more people reached out to us for various reasons. Some regarding an integration of HDS and the Gene Keys. Some were struggling with the effect of HDS information on their lives, or were disappointed because they hadn't realized their full human potential despite of their HDS experiment. Some were deeply irritated by the perplexing HDS information they encountered online or in paid readings.
Some people had also greatly benefitted from HDS during a certain phase of their development, but were ready to take the next step on their personal journey. Many people came to us stuck in identifications they had built up on the basis of taking HDS factoids as points of orientation and as facts. Some were stuck because they confused the HDS display of their unique filters of consciousness with a map of personality traits, or the person they were born to be.
I felt and still feel a sense of responsibility to share my findings and my experience of this journey with people who want to walk a path of liberation. The inclusive approach of INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN became a kind of rescue clinic for such people. For others, IHD provided a perspective and a platform to outgrow the HDS, or at least a basis for making informed decisions when, why and how to engage with the results of an HDS calculation.
It's unfortunate that 'Human Design' (HD) has become the prevalent term used online for HDS. This fosters the common belief that the HDS calculation and its various interpretations are anywhere near to a display of a comprehensive design of a human being. This linguistic truncation also obscures the fact that HDS is propagated as a system of 'pure doctrine' that shows little openness to reflection or integration with other approaches.
Currently, Richard Rudd – Gene Keys founder and a long term companion and good friend – and I are working on an INTEGRALHUMANDESIGN program that will collect and publish all our findings regarding the HDS, and the main options to include and transcend the HDS and other systems. The program will be released in 2025, and will
- soften and enrich HDS by loading Gene Keys language into the Bodygraph,
- contextualize and include HDS by viewing it as an aspect of our integral 'design' as humans,
- transcend and liberate from HDS by reconnecting with awakening as the original intention of HDS.
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