Keynote Speakers

Ilse Zimmermann

Ilse Schmidt Zimmermann

She has studied Sociology, Psychology, and Pedagogy in Frankfurt am Main.
She is a professional Psychologist – Psychotherapist, also Psychotherapist for children and adolescents.
She was President of the European Associationfor Body Psychotherapy (EABP) from 1999 till 2002.
Psychotherapeutic education: Unitary Body Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, Group Analysis Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, as well as further training in Bioenergetic Therapy and Formative Psychology of Stanley Keleman.
She is the founder of the German Educational Program in Unitary Psychotherapy, also Lecturer, Supervisor, and Trainer of therapists in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.


Shaun Gallagher

Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis; Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong (AU); Honorary Professor at Copenhagen, Durham and Tromsø. He is currently a Humboldt Foundation Anneliese Maier Research Fellow (2012-17). Publications: Phenomenology (2012); The Phenomenological Mind (2008), Brainstorming (2008); How the Body Shapes the Mind (2005). He’s editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.