Marion K. Sängerlaub

Marion K. Sängerlaub is Minister for Development Aid at futur eins and leads the organisation’s fundraising and relations. She also co-leads Growth, a project focused on strengthening psychological resilience. Previously, she was part of the editorial team of Kater Demos – the utopian political magazine, where she was responsible for copy editing and later headed the editorial department.

For over 20 years, Marion has supported people in their mental and physical development – with a special focus on mindfulness, self-awareness, and inner clarity. Her mission: to unlock health potential, foster moments of joy, build emotional understanding, and guide both children and adults towards their own inner strength – before stress, overwhelm, or disorientation take hold. With warmth, experience, and a touch of humour, she teaches tools from meditation, stress reduction, and mindful dialogue. Her work creates spaces where self-efficacy, compassion, and focus can grow.

She began her journey in 2002 as a personal health coach and went on to complete numerous trainings – including meditation, natural healing, nutrition, yoga teaching, and psychological counselling with a focus on recovery from toxic relationships. Today, she works as a trainer for mindfulness-based resilience and potential development.

Marion developed her own back training programme that helped her avoid surgery, and in 2006, during a stay in San Francisco, she wrote a book about it: MAKS – The Training for Connoisseurs, a gentle yet effective method combining meditation, breathing, strength, and stretching.

Her creative side – and passion for aesthetics – runs through many areas of her life: As a designer and professional organiser, she helps people bring clarity and harmony into their homes. Before her coaching career, she ran her own real estate company in Berlin for several years and designed custom family homes. Even earlier, she created bespoke stage and wedding attire for her clients.

Marion has lived abroad for over 16 years – in Spain, Switzerland, and the USA, among others. Today, she lives in her hometown Berlin – and also in a small village in Saxony-Anhalt, where she enjoys the peace of the countryside and the closeness to nature.

She is a lover of beauty with a great sense of humour, a passion for language, honest encounters, and new paths taken together in service of a good cause.