Episode 117 with Sophie Friedel, skateboarder and Gestalt therapist from Freiburg, Germany.

Together we discussed her picking up skateboarding as a young adult in Cornwall, England; in the early 2010’s traveling to Kabul, Afghanistan three times to volunteer among other things as an English teacher, skateboard instructor and program coordinator at Skateistan; in 2015 publishing her first book “The Art of Living Sideways: Skateboarding, Peace and Elicitive Conflict Transformation” based on her MA thesis; since 2018 pioneering the use of skateboarding in mental health care with a Scholarship in Germany; becoming a qualified Gestalt therapist and running her project “Drop In Ride Out” which combines skateboarding and Gestalt therapy…

(00:13) – Intro
(01:25) – Starting skateboarding
(09:22) – Studies
(19:35) – First trip to Afghanistan
(28:21) – Writing “The art of living sideways”
(38:09) – Transition from peace work to therapeutic work
(45:26) – Gestalt therapy
(49:46) – Chapter in “Skate/Worlds – New pedagogies for skateboarding”
(52:28) – Starting “Drop in ride out”
(57:49) – Skateboarding as a therapeutic tool
(01:28:43) – Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding
(01:10:47) – Friends questions
(01:10:53) – Rhianon Bader
(01:12:31) – Oliver Percovich
(01:18:42) – Adelina Ong
(01:20:44) – Ben Büscher
(01:26:10) – Iain Borden
(01:29:28) – Paul O’Connor
(01:32:30) – Brian Glenney
(01:38:36) – Rosalie Kubny
(01:42:12) – Conclusion

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