Ulrich Soeder Ulrich Soeder is an internationally acclaimed photographer and psychologist who contributed the art you can admire in the header of our website. His pictures and work stand in a special relationship to the fourfoldness of the educational approach of TRANS4M. » As a photographer and a psychologist I am interested in the personal preconditions that invite innovation and transformation. From my experience, sustainable change happens when people are seen as wholes: arising their need to learn, to love, to live and to give meaning to their lives. Following Pestalozzi one could say: Live with head, heart, hand and spirit. Personal and organisational change processes have much in common with artistic processes: Creativity plays a central role. How does something new come into being? What kind of space needs creativity to unfold? These processes are made up of four different steps: 1. Mindfulness: Realizing what is, and describing without evaluating. Studying the interior and exterior world. Together with others and by oneself. Integrating the head, heart, hand and spirit 2. Encounter: Taking part in the world. Being touched. Experiencing the whole. Including the heart. 3. Presence: Becoming silent, not doing, letting go. Ideas and inspirations will grow out of this very special space. There is this quality of grace: The new is not made, but it is given. Letting the spirit work. 4. Action: Forming the new. It can be a piece of art or the transformation of personal behavior or a social structure. The hand is giving form. With my pictures I invite you to encounter the world, and to meet yourself. « Ulrich Soeder, born in 1963, is working and living in the city of Dresden, Germany. A free-lance photographer since 1986, he is represented as a visual artist by Art Academy Gallery, Dresden. His work is shown in exhibitions in Germany, Italy and Switzerland (www.ulrichsoeder.de). He is working as body-psychotherapist and coach in his Practice for Integral Psychology. Together with a colleague he developed SecondView®, an integral training method that uses photography as a creative medium to deepen awareness, and thereby make visible solutions that emerge from within (www.secondview-consulting.com).