Mag. Nina Koren, Phd, MSc

Sup­port­ing peo­ple in explor­ing and unrav­el­ling their deep self has been a cen­tral con­cern and joy of Nina Koren for many years. She is a pro­fes­sion­al in Body Mind Spir­it Inte­gra­tion and works as a qual­i­fied coun­sel­lor, train­er and author in free­lance prac­tice in Graz, Aus­tria and inter­na­tion­al­ly.

She taught at the Inter-Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege for Health and Devel­op­ment (Graz), in the Advanced Stud­ies Pro­gram at the Bar­bara Bren­nan Insti­tute in Oxford, and as direc­tor of the Sci­ence Depart­ment in Lis­bon in the Mas­ter Course for Body Mind Process Facil­i­ta­tion, which she helped to devel­op. Togeth­er with Christof Huber, she found­ed the med­i­ta­tive dance and self-per­cep­tion series “Con­scious Move­ment” as well as the course pre­sent­ed here on the sub­ject of con­nec­tion.

Nina is a reg­is­tered Mem­ber at the British Asso­ci­a­tion for Coun­selling and Psy­chother­a­py (BACP). She holds a Master’s degree in Com­ple­men­tary, Psy­choso­cial and Inte­grat­ed Health Sci­ences (MSc), a PhD in Psy­chol­o­gy, and a Master’s degree in Russ­ian and French Philol­o­gy. In addi­tion, she com­plet­ed a six-year train­ing at the Bar­bara Bren­nan School of Heal­ing (Mond­see, Cologne) as well as fur­ther train­ing in hos­pice and mourn­ing accom­pa­ni­ment, process work accord­ing to Min­dell and dance ped­a­gogy.

As part of her research in the field of inte­gra­tive health care Nina Koren pub­lished the anthol­o­gy “Bren­nan Heal­ing Sci­ence: An Inte­gra­tive Approach to Ther­a­peu­tic Inter­ven­tion” at Nova Sci­ence in New York in 2018 and a num­ber of research papers in the field of Body Mind Work in the “Jour­nal for Alter­na­tive Med­i­cine Research” (New York, 2018). She has also pub­lished on inter­na­tion­al rela­tions and pol­i­tics for many years.