Episode 117 - Sophie Friedel

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) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.