Christoph's Page

Which is your local chapter of the Abundance League?

San Francisco CA

My city+neighborhood

Fairfield

Passion(s)

Life, learning, experiencing, dancing, music,

Need(s)

promotions, organization, networking, marketing, publication

Gift(s)

Gift of gab, positive attitude, ability to relate to others, openness, outside the box thinking

Relationship Status

It's Complicated

Profession

Patent research specialist, Practicing Philosopher, Teacher of Learning

About Me

My name is Christoph, originally I am from Germany, and as life long free thinker and truth thinker and I became interested in the idea of personal development in the mid 90's, a time during which I was going through some radical changes and challenges in my life.

On January 19, 1991 I left my home in Germany, moved to Kansas, and became integrated as husband and father into a whole new culture and ethnicity.

My marriage of 12 years was overshadowed by a great amount of conflict and drama, an experience which put me face to face with my own personal limitations and shortcomings, but also opened me up to a great amount of introspective learning.

In 1993 I came across the subject of personal-improvement, something which was very new to me at the time. I became instantaneously fascinated by the whole idea of working on myself, especially since I was facing some very serious challenges in my own life.

A few months into my studies I was lead to Stephen Coveys The 7 Habits of highly effective people. In it I found the concept which opened my eyes to the essence of effective personal transformation:

"Between what happens to you, and your response to what happens to you lies your ultimate freedom to choose your response."

This helped me understand that I myself, and most people in this world do not chose their response to what is happening to them but rather react without thinking, and so I became motivated to learn as much as I could on the subject.

After studying countless writers and public speakers such as Dr. Wayne Dwyer, Deepak Chopra, Leo Buscali, John Bradshaw, Dale Carnegy, Anthony Robbins, Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Ken Blenchard and Earl Nightingale I became extremely inspired by what they had to say, but I began to understand that most of them are pointing us to the same awareness; that we cannot control the circumstance and people outside of us, and that lasting change can only be generated from within once we begin to work on the only person over whom we have ultimate control over, namely ourselves.

I realized the tremendous value of this information, and understood that it is quite easy to gain this knowledge on a conceptual level because it just makes sense, but then after a while what has been said and learned gets lost in the same old routine, patterns and habits of life.

I then came to find that the missing link is how to put all of this awareness into practice, a way for us not only to be reminded of those universal and timeless truths, but also an outlet which can allow us to learn how to apply this knowledge into how we deal with life on a day to day basis.

Out this awareness I developed the concept of realize2actualize, a philosophy (realize) and practice (actualize) of life and learning dedicated to the exploration (realization) and practical application (actualization) of knowledge: http://www.realize2actualize.com



My goal is to share what I have learned in form of physical and virtual seminars, workshops, lectures and study groups so others can benefit from my personal learning experiences.

My website/blog

http://www.realize2actualize.com

My other website/blog

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/consciousrevolution_Bayarea/