Karin Dorell
Psychiatrist & AEDP Psychotherapist and supervisor
Transforming life's crossroad's paralysis into creativity, action and purpose
Hi, Welcome to my webpage
My name is Karin and I had the privilege of becoming a medical doctor, a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist. For the past 25 years I worked with different marginalised and privileged communities around the world. From the HIV and mentally ill homeless person in Harlem to the privileged rehab in London to the UN humanitarian worker in Rome to the refugee in Cape Town.
Over the past few years in South Africa I found, through the people on my path and the principals of Ubuntu, for which our personal wellbeing necessarily is achieved through our collective wellbeing, a true space of deeper integration of my internal world and my inter-connection to all the other elements on this planet.
In 2019 I started a collaboration and a deep connection with the people of the Scalabrini Refugee Center in Cape Town. Together we built a Personal Development experiential journey for women refugees.
What we created was an 8 sessions process that allows women to connect to their emotions and a deep sense of themselves. Each session is an experiential journey through topics such as emotions, trauma and anxiety regulation, connection, conflict and anger, integration and change, skills and values and creating an action plan. Each facilitator brings their own specific energy and they have voice and power to bring their own perspective and culture to the process. I support and supervise the facilitators to help them lead from a place of deep embodied presence.
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Shingi West, Pascale Avenvuka Mbu-Letang, Silvia Matzviita created this program with me. Merciline and Patricia Vuvu continue to power it now with vitality and impact
I am deeply grateful for the impact you have on me.
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The facilitators, the staff and the women, all migrants have been a true inspiration in understanding how the process of migration forces us to connect to deeper layers of identity, belonging, resilience and creativity catalysing direct social action back into the community. Something I did not see in the western world.
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It is in witnessing the power of this deep authentic collective and creative movement from overwhelm to flourishing that my understanding of the power of safe collective spaces emerged.
I strongly believe that global transformation, in an ever polarizing world, has to start from personal integration of our own internal world and the intergenerational legacies we carry. Creating safe spaces for people to connect to their innate powerful legacy is my way of transforming my history with its expansions and contractions into transformative action.