ABOUT XERXES

I bring together decades of experience in business consulting, transpersonal psychology, and ancient healing traditions — guiding leaders through Turning Points into reinvention.

My Path

I have seen both worlds.

The one where you run faster, climb higher, and achieve more – only to feel emptier with every step.

And the one beyond it – where collapse becomes the doorway, and disorientation signals that the old code has run its course.

I’ve lived the system, admired for the mask I wore, while a quiet voice inside kept asking: “Is this really it?”
Every crisis of meaning stripped away another layer of illusion, until nothing was left but the raw truth:
I was not here to adapt to the illusion. I was here to step beyond it.

Now, I walk with those who feel the same pull – leaders who sense that the summit they reached is not the place they belong.

I do not offer improvement.
I offer metamorphosis.
Not balance, but rebirth.
Not coping, but reinvention.

Because the Turning Point is not about fixing what is broken.
It is about crossing the threshold, awakening your deepest potential, and directing it toward the future you are here to create.

Professional Background

Work Current
  • Guide for Transformation & Reinvention – working with leaders at critical Turning Points
  • Keynote Speaker – talks on purpose, reinvention, and the future of humanity
Past
  • Partner –  Supertrends Institute & Commetta Collective
  • Founder – Göttergarten, Europe’s first CBD dispensary
  • Founder – Metamorphosers, re-think hub & consultancy
  • Barefoot Doctor – two years travelling globally, practicing complementary medicine at retreat centers, clinics & ashrams
  • Consultant – Fulcrum Consulting
Education University Education
  • MSc in Counselling, Siegmund Freud University/ARGE Bildungsmanagement, Austria
  • BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE), University of East Anglia (UK) & Université de Neuchâtel (CH)
  • Diploma in Acupuncture, Open International University of Complementary Medicines, Sri Lanka
  • Psychotherapeutic Propaedeutic, University of Vienna, Austria
Core Advanced Training & Initiations
  • Transpersonal training with Stanislav Grof & Jack Kornfield, USA
  • Transpersonal psychology & holotropic breathwork (ÖATP/IHTP, Sylvester Walch, Austria)
  • Initiations as a medicine man with indigenous teachers in South America & Europe
  • Systemic constellation work (Hellinger, Essen, Varga von Kibéd, van Kampenhout, Poppinger)
  • Organisational development, coaching & supervision (Rolf Fink, Switzerland)
  • Hypnotherapy (Canada, Sri Lanka)
  • Certified Shiatsu practitioner, Shiatsu Ausbildung Austria
Additional Trainings

Bodywork & Traditional Chinese Medicine (Eduard Trip, Achim Eckert), Tibetan sound therapy (Nezval), yoga & qi gong, Sufi mysticism, and Tibetan Buddhist epistemology.

Retreats & Immersions

Extensive immersion in spiritual traditions across Asia, the Middle East, and South America, including:

  • Shamanic work in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia & Portugal
  • Desert retreats in Iran & Morocco
  • Sufi, Buddhist & yogic lineages
  • Ashrams in India (Osho, Sai Baba, Amma)
  • Vipassana (Goenka) & Anapanasati meditation in India & Thailand