Kirsten Tofahrn

Kirsten Tofahrn is the founder and head of the Zentrum für Achtsamkeit in Köln. She started it many years ago with a clear wish: to create a beautiful place devoted to modern meditation, stress management and personal development.

Her conviction has only grown since then. She sees mindfulness as the key to inner peace, stability, calm and finding one's own path, especially in challenging times.

She teaches 8-week MBSR courses for stress reduction, which are certified and subsidised by the statutory health insurers. She also teaches MSC courses in mindful self-compassion and leads TEAK, a training in essential mindfulness. Alongside her work, the centre offers individual sessions, seminars and group courses, a guided city retreat in silence, and essence work. It also runs formats developed for companies.

For people who want to teach mindfulness themselves, she and her team offer the Living Mindfulness training, and they provide supervision for fellow mindfulness teachers. She works with an experienced team and welcomes questions personally.