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Open House as part of Mental Health Week
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Here is our program:
Tea room & feel-good food – three healing tea blends will be presented, accompanied by lentil dal with coconut & coriander and energy balls (donation-based). Space for conversation and exchange.
Fermentation station – water kefir, kimchi & pickled vegetables. With Sonia Dimitrow Nutrition, exercise, mindset I Insta: sonia.dimitrow Website: https://sonia-dimitrow.com
Workshops & Healing Spaces:
🔆 3–5 p.m. – Art therapy: Building trust in difficult times.
With Betti Fiegle and Conny Art therapy www.bettifiegle.com
🔆 3:30–4:30 p.m. – Dance therapy: Regulating the nervous system & discovering new strength. With Sabine Rippe, dance therapy www.heiltanz.com Insta: heiltanz.berlin
🔆 4–5 p.m. – Keynote speech: Basic knowledge of developmental trauma, a sustainable way out of this condition. With Marcel kontakt@heilkunst-initiative.de
🔆 7–9:30 p.m. – Healing circle to get to know each other. Shamanic practices with a look ahead to the next annual cycle. With Nadya & Olivera www.shamanic.journey.vasta.net
Additionally: Bookshelf on naturopathy and trauma research.

Why this week is important
Especially in a time marked by crises, uncertainties, and rapid change, there is a need for spaces where a trusting, hopeful view of the future can be cultivated.

Mental Health Week highlights the wide range of support services and coping strategies available. Mental health affects us all, especially now, in times of social challenges. That is why we need to address current needs, new demands and tasks, and everything that stands in their way.
In our initiative, we are also committed to creating spaces where new perspectives can be found. Even in the often cumbersome or outdated-sounding “service” for the common good, we see a spark of hope—small, quiet, but noticeable.

You can find more information about the action week here: www.seelischegesundheit.net/aktionen/aktionswoche/

October 2025: further offers
In addition to the open house as part of Mental Health Week, we continue to offer our regular and new services: yoga, massages, therapies from various disciplines, bodywork, self-organized groups, and much more.

👉 You can find further October offers on the ini website and in the monthly plan for October here Click

Here is a small preview:

New from Wednesday, October 1: Movement & Breath Morning Yoga, every Wednesday and Thursday, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
Constellation evening on October 13, 6:00-9:30 p.m. with Rainer and Jürgen
Intuitive cooking: bread and vegetable pastes on October 18, 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. with Sonia Dimitrow
What do I really want? – Gestalt therapy workshop with Fine Belger, on Saturday, October 25, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Taiji & QiGong Wednesdays 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. with Diego Agullo
Embodied Emotions – Explorative bodywork, somatics, voice & non-violent communication – Thursdays 5:30-7:00 p.m. with Alexandre Achour
Monthly handpan meet-up on October 24, 6-10:00 p.m. with Pantopia e.V.
and much more

We would also like to draw your attention to our newly founded massage collective, which has come together to offer low-threshold bodywork, talk therapy, acupuncture, and various massage techniques. If you are interested in learning about Thai yoga massage, Ayurvedic massage, sexological bodywork, classic massage, foot reflexology, Chi Nei Tsang, Tuina, TCM/acupuncture, please send your request to: bodywork@heilkunst-initiative.de

In addition, a basic massage course is in the planning stages. If you are interested in the topic but have little experience so far, this might be the right thing for you. bodywork@heilkunst-initiative.de

Our cultural kitchen met for the first time—we cooked according to the stone soup principle, and it was really nice! Following the stone soup principle, we chopped, stirred, and exchanged ideas about identity. Personal stories came to the table: East-West experiences, migration, family rituals, influential female figures, and the dishes of our childhood. Our “self” is like a colorful pot full of ingredients: origin, gender, religion, age, health, and much more interact and shape our diversity. Intersectionality means exactly that: all these aspects mix in their own way and form our diverse experiences and perspectives – and that is exactly what makes us who and what we are. We are already looking forward to the next time – topics such as gut health and Ayurvedic cuisine are already on the agenda! (Fabian Walter, Activities Group, TCM, Thai Yoga Massage, & Sonia Dimitrow, Nutrition Group, Ayurveda, Educational Vacations)

In addition to the diverse open offerings, we have our closed groups, which meet on their own initiative to discuss topics such as trauma, touch, art and Gestalt therapy, or yoga training. There, they research, practice, and deepen their knowledge together. We also offer space for self-organized groups that practice radical therapy, for example. There are formats for FoRT (women organizing radical therapy), MRT (men radical therapy), and RT TINQ (trans, inter, non-binary, and queer).

If you would like to start your own research group, please write to us at: kontakt@heilkunst-initiative.de

Get involved & help shape the future
We believe that health and community grow through small gestures: listening, sharing, exploring together.
With you by our side, a vibrant space for encounter and experimentation with new ways of living together unfolds.

Perhaps you would like to get to know our initiative, contribute your ideas, or realize an offer yourself?

➡️ Here you will find opportunities to get involved
More insights: www.heilkunst-initiative.de
Instagram: @ini.heilkunst
Telegram: initiative der heilenden künste 🐉

With warm regards,
Your Initiative of the Healing Arts

Bethanien South Wing, 3rd floor, Mariannenplatz 2a, 10997 Berlin

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⚪️ Offers circle – develops formats for bodywork, naturopathy, therapy & joint learning, as well as self-organised groups.

⚪️ Maintenance Circle – designs, repairs and maintains the rooms.

⚪️ Association & Structure Circle – ensures that our initiative can stand on its own two feet, both legally and financially.

⚪️ Communication Circle – shares our vision with the outside world and maintains contact with you.

⚪️ Energy Flow Circle – pays attention to communication, appreciation, cooperation and the evolving aesthetics of the rooms.

To ensure that everything works together, there is also the:

⚪️ Co-circle (coordination circle) – a weekly plenary body that oversees and holds all circles together through delegates and passes on ideas.

Experience sociocracy

We invite you to understand sociocracy not only as a ‘structure’ but as a living practice. Every person who joins us contributes ideas, takes responsibility and helps shape the organisation.

Perhaps you would like to get to know one of our working groups or contribute your ideas?

➡️ Here you can find opportunities to get involved.

Slowness & trust

Even in this form of organisation, we remain true to our philosophy:

Slowness is a value.

We trust that real change does not come about through hectic activity, but through mutual listening and support, through growing together and through the ability to let spaces between us have an effect.

With you at our side, a living space for healing,

encounter and the exploration of new ways of living together unfolds.

More insights: www.heilkunst-initiative.de

Instagram: @ini.heilkunst

Telegram: https://t.me/+5tkis87KNxU2MWNi

With warm regards, Your Initiative for the Healing Arts Bethanien South Wing, 3rd floor, Mariannenplatz 2a, 10997 Berlin

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