I support people in my practice daily and I am often asked what my method is called. This question is not so easy to answer, especially because I don't think in terms of methods at all. Basically, I am just present. Then I see what is necessary and what I can do about it. I have learned many methods. Each one has its value but at first, each method is a theory with practical tools.

One day a student asked me: "Why do you think like that? How did you get to thinking like that?" This question reminded me of how I began to think beyond pathology: the impulse was given by my first pathology teacher.

"Learn physiology. Only when you understand it, you can fully grasp the meaning of pathology.” I still hear his words today. I hadn’t been offered an alternate way of looking at it so I naturally followed this sentence and unconsciously organized all my knowledge according to it. Everything I have learned to evaluate as pathological, as sick, has a healthy counterpart or a healthy goal - and that is what I always look at first. By recognizing or even understanding this goal, I see the whole, the complete picture, not just its parts. 

This realization shook me and I realized that I actually have a method that I use consistently in each of my courses. So I set out to find a sound that would express this methodology for me. Starting from the word complete or whole, I ended up with kafi, which comes from Hindi and means exactly that. Following the sound, I came across kavi, which also has its origin in Hindi and means poet in translation. There it was: the healer who tells stories. In the sound of the word, I find the word life (French: vie) and the word how (German: wie), so I made KAVIE out of it for me. With the individual letters of KAVIE I connect terms that have a lasting effect on my actions and are therefore an integral part of my method:

With KAVIE I am looking for the reason for an experience of illness, on a physical as well as on a mental level, even when the condition is torturing the person. KAVIE asks questions like: "What is the symptom originally meant for or what is its purpose?”

Following this great question for reasons, I come to the following insights:

1. In every sick person there is still a lot of health
2. Everything has a meaningful beginning or purpose.
3. There is always a solution, even if I do not know it (yet).

KAVIE lets me ask questions, use different ways of working (touching, moving, speaking, playing, interacting, practicing self-efficacy and much more) and is also transferable to other methods. Each of my courses contains these elements. My ambition is always to see the whole person, not just the disease. This is how I am already very close to the principle of salutogenesis, which is based on the question of how health develops and is maintained. This principle is the counterpart of pathology, which focuses on the development of disease. The essential elements of salutogenesis are: Comprehensibility, feasibility and purpose.
In addition to these approaches, I strive to consistently implement the combination of science, empirical medicine and self-efficacy with KAVIE. My personal starting point is adjusting my own field to the universal field. For me, fields and their energy are the connecting element on every level.

In the end it is not only about knowledge but also about getting closer to wisdom. The wisdom that activates one’s inner healer and thus can help to make every method more successful.