Hania Hakiel

Hania Hakiel is a Berlin-based psychotherapist and a yoga teacher with 10 years of experience in leading social and personal change through community engagement as well as holding space for individual therapy sessions and group facilitation. Her current professional focus is on collective and intergenerational trauma, as well as bringing therapy and trauma-awareness into daily life to make peacemaking, and social change accessible and possible. In 2015 in collaboration with NGO Give Something Back to Berlin she founded Open Art Shelter, a safe and inclusive space for the newly arrived asylum seekers and locals. The intention was to use art as a tool for communication, expression, connection. With time the program grew into a holistic approach of trauma healing and social inclusion, named Komorebi. The focus of Komorebi is on supporting healing processes of people living with experiences of trauma and migration by creating trauma and culture-sensitive community, as well as developing person-oriented, accessible methods of psychotherapy and authentic relating. Part of the program of Komorebi is Homecoming Practice for Women, arriving safely home into yourself through embodied yoga, trauma-informed mindfulness, creativity, and somatic learning. When not at work, Hania escapes for wild-camping, goes for long walks with no special destination, and keeps her drawing journal.