Meet all our Journey Guides

Johannes Hochholzer

Facilitator, Unity Effect team member and Journey Guide. Consultant for team and organisational development.

Matthias Fecht

Head of Human Resources, Forest Stewardship Council International. My mission is to learn how the inner workings of our mind influence our behavior and decisions and how we can use this to become happier and better at what we do.

Svenja Jesumann

Life Explorer, Human Interactions Manager, Free Spirit, Journey Guide. My purpose: creating an environment for inspiring, healthy, mature human interactions.

Linda Wagner

Excited about sustainability and personal empowerment, grateful for nature's beauty and supportive networks, Journey Guide.

Marina Lynch

Participatory leadership practitioner & coach, Flow Game host, Process designer, Journey Guide. My purpose: creating space for authentic conversations and (personal) leadership to flourish.

Vera Janke

Career & Life Coach, Listening Adventurer, Journey Guide. My purpose: Bringing more listening into the world. One conversation at a time.

Sabrina Meissel

Systemic & animal assisted Coach, Facilitator, HR Manager, Journey Guide. My purpose: creating safe spaces for people to be their best self.

Franziska Kohn

Facilitator, co-founder of Unity Effect, Journey Guide. My purpose: People stepping into their potential. Passionate about personal development and leadership.

Emily Johnston

Facilitator, co-founder of Unity Effect, Journey Guide. Deeply passionate about guiding group processes and empowering people to connect with their purpose and leadership potential.

Clemens Binder

Freelancer with Unity Effect. Holding spaces, building bridges and inspiring people to realise what makes them come alive. Passionate about networks and social change.

Jannik Kaiser

Co-founder of Unity Effect & Journey Guide. Passionate about co-creating spaces for transformative change. Eternal optimist and talented in telling unfunny jokes.

Weekly themes

Explore the topics which we dive into together over our ten week Changemaker Journey.

Powerful Questions

Who am I? Why am I here? Pretty big questions, right? Questions can be a powerful tool to guide us. In the first week we develop our own powerful questions which will help guide our journey. We practice holding and working with questions and letting the answers emerge and allowing ourselves to be surprised

What I Deeply Care About

What is it that I really, deeply care about? What is true to me, and what is coming from somewhere else, such as my family, friends or society? In week two we focus on getting clearer about what it is that really matters to us.

Purpose and Excitement

What is it that really inspires and excites me? In week three we dive into our passion, strengths and contributions as entry points to discover and connect to our purpose.

Making Decisions and Letting Go

What decisions do I need to make and what do I need to let go of? This week is all about making decisions that help us move forward and follow our excitement. It’s about listening to our intuition, sensing potential and opportunities and getting clearer about what supports me to follow my purpose and what doesn’t.

What do I want to create?

What do I want to bring into this world? Our midway point in the Journey is about connecting to our inner clarity and purpose to guide deliberate action. It’s about bringing intention the things we create, recognising that we are constantly creating through our daily actions. Over the second half of the journey we will focus on exploring different ways in which we can live, create and prototype our purpose, through developing a project. This week we will sense into the core intention, vision and potential of our project and commit to our first action steps.

Sensing my System

In week six we start to turn our focus outward to see ourselves and our projects as part of a broader ecosystem. It’s about mapping the connections and resources we already have, and exploring where there is potential to create new connections that support you and your project.

Courageous Action

Our focus in week seven is on building courage through taking action. We look back over our personal journeys and at the moments where we were courageous, and appreciate how far we’ve already come. We also explore the things that support us to take courageous action, especially when we are facing the unknown.

Navigating Challenges

As we build connections, take courageous action and develop our projects, we inevitably face challenges. In week eight we pay attention to the obstacles that are showing up, both within us and in the outside world. We explore at the way we engage with obstacles and practice looking for the choices and opportunities which these challenges offer us.

Sustainable Action

Creating a project which is sustainable in the longer term means sustaining yourself. In week nine we connect to our sources of energy and look at the practices and habits which help us build resilience, recharge our battery and find balance.

Celebration and Feedforward

In the final week of our Journey, we look back over our time together, tie together the different threads and reflect on what has happened, what has changed and remained, what we’ve discovered and how we’ve grown. We also look to the path ahead, to our next steps and commitments, and to our personal architecture which supports us to continue following our deep excitement and living our purpose. And of course, we celebrate!

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The Changemaker Journey has been for me ten weeks of inspiring workshops, warm-hearted community and a good balance of theory and practice. But mainly it has been a great opportunity to work on the question ‘What do I want to bring to the world?

Jonathan Hoenninger

The Changemaker Journey was a surprising and inspiring process that allowed me to look deeper into myself and understand better who I am and where I am going. I was shocked by all the space I was given to create and deconstruct, to rethink my ideas and to find my pieces in my own pace. The Journey helped me understand how much we all need such space in order to live our lives to the fullest. I am grateful for every person I met during the Journey and every AHA moment we had together and individually. It was truly enriching and I recommend it to everyone.

Marta Kanarkiewicz

Last year I was grateful to be part of the Changemaker Journey as it helped me reflect on my personal and professional aspirations especially in the middle of a pandemic. Now 15 months into the pandemic and looking back, I really am grateful for all the resilience-building last year that I invested in as this year has been much tougher than last. I constantly draw on the exercises to remind myself to take breaks, be aware of the needs of my mind and body and to continue to nourish my soul. I would highly recommend the Changemaker Journey.

ElsaMarie DSilva

Changemaker Journey Participant

The Changemaker Journey helps me ground myself around my true purpose and values. It gives me a framework for self-empowerment. The Unity Effect team and awesome Franziska Kohn are true leaders of change from the inside out.

Venesa Musovic

Changemaker Journey Participant

I want to thank Franziska, Jannik, and all of your time for this wonderful experience. I enjoyed both the journey, and the changemakers who shared it with me. In particular, I think it helped me to hone in on a better way to continue making an impact. I am happy to say that it is already bearing fruit, and I already have had my work accepted to multiple conferences, part of the commitment I made to myself during our journey. Looking forward to seeing where it will take me!

Steven Aiello

Changemaker Journey Participant

How can I...

contribute to society while doing the things I love?
turn my ideas and dreams into action?
make a difference and take care of myself at the same time?
build the courage and resilience to stay on my path?
find other changemakers to support me?

The Journey

The Changemaker Journey is a 10 week guided online program for a group of up to 12 participants. We meet once a week for a 2 hour online workshop with the group, which takes place via Zoom. Our Journey Guides facilitate the workshops with a focus on experiential learning, reflection and sharing practical methods and tools. Our workshops are highly interactive – this is definitely not your typical online course! Between the workshops there are peer-coaching sessions, as well as a workbook with individual exercises and tools.
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The first half of the Journey focuses on developing your inner clarity – your purpose, values, decision-making and more – based on which you will define a project or prototype to develop in the second half of the program. Your project could be something very concrete, such as a new initiative or business idea, or it could be more personal, such as figuring out your next steps forward. Don’t worry if you don’t have it figured out yet as you will get to develop it along the way. The most important thing is that we put our inner journey into outer action.

‍We offer Journeys for individuals and organisations. To find out about a program for your organisation, contact us.

Explore the weekly topics

Where does the Journey lead?

Learn and practice skills and tools to:

Discover your values, strengths and purpose
Understand your own impact and the impact you want to create
Develop your idea or project and turn it into action
Build courage and resilience to make decisions and take action in uncertain and challenging situations
Think in systems and use a network approach to support your project
Create habits and environments which support you and your project