From NGOs to business. From business back to people.
I work somewhere between leadership, organisational development, human relationships and the invisible things that quietly shape people’s lives.
Most people know me as a facilitator, consultant, trainer or coach.
But that is not where the story started.
My first paying clients arrived before puberty
That time I was 13 years old.
Absurd? Weird? Funny? Probably all of it.
Puberty was only slowly beginning for me and people were already coming into my childhood room in my parents’ apartment. I was reading Tarot – which I had asked for on my 10th birthday.
But the readings were never really about predicting the future.
People spoke to me about relationships, money, illness, fear, work, business and life. Sometimes they cried. Sometimes they laughed. Sometimes they just silently stared at the cards lying on the table.
Looking back, it resembled coaching much more than mysticism.
I only discovered much later that coaching actually existed. Then I simply brought training and structure to something that had already been naturally present in my life for years.
Before Tarot — there were stones
But even those were not my first clients.
I was around 7 years old at a summer camp when I started collecting coloured stones near the water. People threw them onto the table and I would “read” them.
At first it was just a game. Then adults started sitting down in front of me. And they looked strangely serious about it.
Years later, during systemic coaching training, we started using objects — figures, cups, stones. I remember having an almost absurd inner moment:
“Wait. I know this already. This is how I used to play.”
Only now there was different language around it.
Community work, leadership and organisations
I never originally planned to work in systemic coaching.
I entered the world of leadership, facilitation and organisational development through community work, non-formal education and social change.
Since 2014, I have worked internationally with NGO leaders, organisations, communities, public institutions and businesses.
For six years, I was also a partner in a consulting company in Bratislava. Trainer. Facilitator. Consultant. Coach. Business developer.
Over time, my work naturally moved deeper into systems, relationships and the wider context people are part of.
Because very often the problem is not only inside the individual person.
Discovering LIP and systemic work
In 2018, I attended a Life Integration Process seminar with Nana Krüger based on the work of Wilfried Nelles.
I had no idea what LIP actually was. But somewhere during the seminar I remember thinking (or feeling) very clearly:
“One day, I will do this too.”
And life quietly moved in that direction. What resonates deeply with me in LIP is its perspective on adulthood, responsibility and human development.
Not fixing people.
Not endlessly analysing childhood.
Not trying to become “better”.
But understanding where we are in life.
And what life asks from us there.
This perspective also fundamentally shapes how I work with people, organisations and leadership.
Did you know that organisations also have their own puberty?
In which period of your life did you have the most conflicts and the biggest ideals?
Many teams and companies are trying to “solve problems” which are actually natural developmental phases of growth, identity, boundaries, responsibility and direction.
LIP later brought me deeper into systemic coaching, constellations and systemic approaches connected to leadership, organisations and human systems.
Today
Today I live in Ljubljana, where I work with people and organisations navigating relationships, change, uncertainty, direction and life itself.
And somewhere underneath all of it, there are probably still those coloured stones from childhood.
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