Marion K. Sängerlaub
Marion K. Sängerlaub is Executive Director (aka Minister of Development) at futur eins and works at key strategic intersections where individual and collective development, organizational culture, and social responsibility meet. She works across projects on the conception, implementation, and long-term establishment of education, resilience, and awareness formats.
As Co-Director of the Growth project, she implements programs that strengthen psychological resilience, self-efficacy, and inner clarity in times of societal overload. With the Awareness Project, which she initiated, she brings concepts of conscious education, emotional competence, and mindful communication into schools, companies, and institutional contexts—practical, experience-based, and accessible to diverse target groups.
Another core focus of her work lies in building sustainable structures and partnerships: through the strategic development of projects, fundraising, and networking with partners from civil society, institutions, and the business sector—with the aim of making impactful ideas viable in the long term.
The tongue-in-cheek title “Minister of Development” captures well what drives Marion’s work: not only developing concepts, but bringing them into practice together with others—through clarity, strategic vision, and relationships built on mutual respect.
For over twenty years, she has accompanied individuals and groups in workshops, trainings, and process-oriented formats on topics such as mindful communication, self-awareness, stress regulation, emotional competence, healthy boundaries, dealing with inner and outer conflicts, as well as personal and collective resilience. Her work combines depth with groundedness: clear, empathetic, and transformative—always oriented toward what is truly sustainable in everyday life.
Her approach is shaped by many years of practice in personal and psychological counseling, naturopathic methods, body-based and mindfulness-based practices, and meditation. Her professional background includes diverse roles, among them entrepreneur, designer, Head of Editorial at the utopian political magazine Kater Demos, and author. During a stay in San Francisco, she developed and published the MAKS Training for Pleasure Seekers in 2006—an awareness-based back and full-body training that gently integrates meditation, breathwork, strength, and mobility. She is currently working on her book with the working title “Mindfulness as a Staple Food for Democracy,” scheduled for publication this year.
Marion has lived abroad for over sixteen years, including in the United States, Switzerland, and Spain. Today, she divides her time between Berlin and a small village in Saxony-Anhalt. As a versatile generalist, she enjoys thinking in broader contexts and bringing together perspectives that rarely share the same room.
Her commitment: a conscious, socially intelligent society in which humanity and compassion are not add-ons, but foundations—and where democracy is understood as a shared process of learning and shaping the future.