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Let us say yes to who or what turns up, before any determination, before any anticipation, before any identification…

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Markus is a creative supervisor, supervisor-trainer, drama & movement therapist, Playback Theatre and Bibliodrama trainer and facilitator, and Spiritual Care workshop facilitator based in London, England.

Markus is a frequent consultant, lecturer and workshop facilitator at hospice services and palliative care training institutions in England, Germany and Austria since 2010.

He also teaches on a wide range of biblical texts, rabbinic sources, and Jewish subjects in educational and interreligious settings. Further, he runs both Playback Theatre and Bibliodrama/Bibliolog sessions and training courses.

Alongside his clinical work as a drama and movement therapist and as a healthcare/hospice chaplain, he has been involved in the training of drama therapists at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen (2020-22), of dance movement therapists at Goldsmiths, University of London (2017-19), and of rabbis and cantors at the University of Potsdam (2012-22).

  • Markus is a full member of the Association for Pastoral Supervision & Education (APSE)

    He holds an MA in Jewish Studies (2009, King’s College London) and an MA in Drama & Movement Therapy (2016, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama).

    He also has a diploma in Creative Approaches to Supervision (2013, London Centre for Psychodrama), a certificate in Playback Theatre Leadership (2019, Centre for Playback Theatre in New Paltz/NY, a diploma in Group Supervision (2024, Institute of Pastoral Supervision and Reflective Practice), and has been accredited as trainer for Bibliodrama / Bibliolog (2024, Bibliolog Netzwerk International).

  • 2026     Bibliolog in jüdischen Gemeinden, in: Uta Pohl-Patalong, Bibliolog. Impulse für Gottesdienst, Gemeinde und Schule. Band 1: Grundformen. 4., erweiterte und überarbeitet Auflage. Kohlhammer.

    Markus is currently working on translating some of the Institute’s publications into German.

  • Markus has co-facilitated with Michael Paterson on the Danish Diploma in Group Supervision, and on various IPSRP UK and Australia-based diploma courses including the UK based online format since 2026.

    Markus is the point of contact for courses, professional development, and events in Europe.