foundernora sevbihiv sinemillioglu

I am a cultural anthropologist, mediator, coach, trainer, and co-founder of frameshift.

about me.

I am of German-Kurdish origin, and, while Berlin is my current home, I carry inside of me the traces of the many places in which I was lucky enough to live. These places include Istanbul and South-East Anatolia, Germany’s Ruhr region, Damascus and the wider Middle East, Southern France, and the US Midwest.

As an anthropologist, I have made people the centre of my professional interests. Understanding and communicating different worldviews and perspectives is a daily affair for anthropologists. As a mediator and coach I invite my clients to challenge themselves, to admit to their own vulnerabilities. I support them in cultivating new perspectives, understanding and defining their individual boundaries, and widening their repertoire of responses to difficult situations while staying authentic and true to themselves. I am struck by the variety of ways in which networks of kinship and connection are formed, and by the mystery of what constitutes ‘good’ communication. Working with my clients keeps me grounded and humble, as I relearn, on a daily basis, that things are rarely how they appear on the surface.

What fascinates, moves, and drives me: vulnerability, boundaries, interculturality, differences, foreignness, groups, team, and family dynamics, nature.

languages.

I speak the following languages fluently: English, German, French and Turkish, and I am conversant in Kurdish, Arabic, and Spanish.

experience.

degrees.