I am a Copenhagen-based somatic therapist and group facilitator. My work focuses on presence-based inquiry and group process, touch, breathwork, and integration of developmental trauma. I am passionate about dancing, linking spirituality and contemporary psychology, expanded states of consciousness, and community-building.
Years ago, I was on a different path, aligned more closely with my family’s expectations. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Power Engineering in Poland, I spent 2.5 years in Business Development within a corporate environment in Belgium. In my early twenties, I grappled with existential questions, a deep sense of purposelessness, and an intuition that my work didn’t reflect my true self—though I lacked the words to articulate this at the time. While immersed in the corporate world, topics like psychology, spirituality, and the nature of reality began to subtly draw my attention.
I recall from back then two books that significantly influenced me: Inner Engineering and The Untethered Soul. The former introduced me to daily kriya yoga practices, which I maintained for over a year, helping me connect more deeply with my inner world and become aware of various tensions and blockages. The latter pointed toward a spirituality I yearned for, absent in my Catholic, dogmatic upbringing.
Eventually, I realized I need to leave the corporate bubble, which I had endured through either excessive sports, drinking, or dating. Nevertheless, I still hoped to find fulfillment by pursuing the ‘engineering-success identity’ embedded within me, this time, however, coupled with a desire to positively impact the world. This led me to Denmark to pursue a master’s degree in Wind Energy at DTU.
Being a student again, I now had spare time to immerse myself in local communities, the Scandinavian festival burner scene, psychedelic experiences, and the world of authentic relating. Exposure to deeper human intimacy, presence and honesty made me aware of new degrees of aliveness and meaning. I recall Jeremy Lent stating in a Sounds of SAND podcast that “meaning is a function of connectedness,” a concept I began to experience firsthand back in these days.
During my master’s studies, I realized that computer-based analytical work brought me little joy. After six months of intense internal conflict with my ‘success-oriented’ identity, I took a terrifying leap into a new life chapter. At 26, self-discovery, presence, human connection, and exploring reality’s nature became my primary focus. Finally!
My first two-year trainings were in Myofascial Energetic Release bodywork and the BioDynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System. I discovered a natural ease for connecting through touch, which became a vital resource for regulating my nervous system, tuning and listening to the bodies of others.
This journey wasn’t easy. I faced challenging experiences as I delved deeper into my body, encountering both opening to more joy, love, and intense waves of shame and shut down. I was learning the basics of how the body and nervous system can store developmental and shock trauma imprints and experiencing releasing some of it; on the other hand, I was being humbled and learning that the healing path is nothing but linear! I became more attuned to states of overwhelm, nurturing, freeze, fight, and flight, learning to navigate them within myself and with others.
I realized that high-quality space-holding depends more on human connection and attunement than on expertise or knowledge. Besides, after many residential trainings, I started to see a pattern that actually around 50-70% of the impact that felt enriching for me was coming from being in relationships with fellow participants and engaging in real connections, that were mostly happening outside of exercises and structured sessions.
As the saying goes, “Trauma happens in a relationship and needs to be integrated(healed) in a relationship.”
These realizations were bringing me closer to Circling practice, starting with weekend experiences and progressing to several six-month leadership trainings. The Surrendered Leadership paradigm was particularly impactful, helping me address core issues like self-worth, deep shame, suppressed anger, and freezing fear of intimacy. Though challenging, often including many days of feeling uncomfortable, frozen and stuck, these experiences gradually allowed me to express myself more freely and probably for the first time in self-aware life trust in my authenticity. Writing it, I feel grateful to Life that it give me energy and some degree of trust to persistently stay in a practice and do not give up there.
It took about three years from discovering Surrendered Leadership to feeling more settled and leading in a way that felt increasingly exciting and nurturing, continually pushing me to new edges of discovery. I began to trust my body’s capacity to guide me and inform me about personal and group dynamics. I remain humbled by how often I act from a place of non-surrender and how pleasant and enriching it is to move from trust and ease. Circling provides me tools to engage with fundamental aspects of reality and identity, confronting blind spots and teaching me how to engage with the world from the place of love (surrender).
Mateusz, as a facilitator, is present, genuine, curious and shows care, vulnerability, and dares to validate others’ experiences and talk openly about difficult emotions and experiences. He facilitates room for healing.
Dina HP
Every session I have had with Mateusz has been extremely powerful and restorative. His compassionate presence and skillful guidance have allowed me to connect more deeply to myself and work through some significant challenges in my life.I highly recommend trying out his unique blend of therapeutic practices.
Tom Crate
Alongside these explorations, I embarked on a another journey with Compassionate Inquiry, a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Gabor Maté. I was drawn to it upon realizing that, while presence-based inquiry like Circling is potent, I also needed frameworks to understand and work with developmental trauma and its integration. I’ve remained connected to this school for about three years, continuing to learn through ongoing supervision until this day.
Engaging with various therapeutic models often brought my focus to spirituality. Questions like “What is the deeper truth of the present moment?” and “Who am I?” resurfaced, with evolving answers. While I occasionally align with specific teachings or practices, I rarely stay with them beyond a year or two. The practice that has endured over years in multiple forms is meditative observation of the totality my experience, fostering development of consciousness through focused awareness.
In facilitating groups or working with clients, I integrate these approaches into my leadership. My style seem to emphasize listening to the body’s intelligence and intuition, and leading more and more from the life force to engage with the core of our beings. I’m also intrigued by exploring various stages of adult development and models that describe them, and recognizing how they manifest in the group dynamics. I also find lots of joy in transitioning between deep listening and stillness to wild expression, dancing with Eros, or bursts of laughter.
In Transformational Connection (Circling) we bring meditative acceptance and awareness to what’s happening in the moment in us and between us. We invite you for the 2.5-day journey into deep presence, exploration of authenticity in relationships, and embodiment.
Time and Place
May 30 – June 1.
Aarhus, Denmark
Leaders
Mateusz Jędrzejewski
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