Thought #459: We’ve Now Broken Free of That Straitjacket: Erlebnisräume with Diana Osterhage and Anna Troia – and the Exchange Between Iryna, Ksenia and Marina

We don’t have a forced, so not a formal collaboration here. There’s actually no contract. There’s no obligation. And at the same time there is still common ground and shared goals. And we’re developing something step by step, together.

Next up, we have two extensions.

First, the collaboration with Diana Osterhage. She has launched something called “Erlebnisräume” – spaces for experience! And the idea, the approach, is that she has invited Anna Troia to join, the Anna she already made a podcast with on the topic of “stimmig” – when does something feel in tune? And we’re going to refer back to this podcast, in order to explain here on UNO.TEAM the background, the context of the kind of collaboration we have: namely an open one.

Flyer “Wandelkraft Erlebnisräume – 3 Workshops” with portrait photos of Anna Troia, Torsten Därr and Anna Hesse against a light background with red blossoms — Wandelkraft Erlebnisräume: three workshops with Anna Troia, Torsten Därr and Anna Hesse (image: Wandelkraft)

That’s what sets us apart

Because I believe we – and by that I currently mean Diana, Anna Troia and Anna Hesse – present ourselves to the outside world as one.

And we offer a whole range of things, of our services, of our experience, and market ourselves together under one platform.

We’ve now broken free of that straitjacket

And I find that very interesting. Because I believe we’ve all had the experience of being in structures before – employed by companies – and having to do things there that we didn’t always agree with, but we did them because we thought we depended on it.

And from this catch-22, from this thought pattern, from this straitjacket, if you like, we’ve now broken free! And we’re using this space and this opportunity to work together.

How does the whole thing work? What does Anna Troia offer? I’ve already written a text about that. And I mention Diana Osterhage very often already. So in principle we’ve already described a lot of what the three of them do. So that’s the one track.

Where UNO.TEAM can contribute a lot

The other thing is that we’re now gathering the information, the exchange from Iryna, Ksenia, the seamstress, and Marina – these three Ukrainian women, women who fled, who have a lot in common, who are now slowly sharing their experiences – and where UNO.TEAM can contribute a lot, where we can support, can accompany and can shape something together.

The three “Wandelkraft Erlebnisräume” workshops at a glance

Anna Troia – Living in tune with the day’s energies – a guided sensing into what is today
Anna takes you on a short guided meditation journey. On this day we are accompanied and guided by the energy 13 Kawok. 13 is the highest number in the Maya calendar, very powerful and strongly connected with the spiritual world. Kawok is the energy of the midwives who bring new things into the world, and also of the storm. What might want to be washed away on this day, so there is room for the new? We experience it together by sensing into it.
Torsten Därr – Going new ways with AI tools as your personal team
You want to go new ways and move something that really matters to you and to others? Together we sharpen your ideas, and I show you step by step how to use AI tools as your personal team – even if you’re not a tech pro. That way you get started right away, gain momentum and keep speaking in your own voice.
Anna Hesse – Conscious breathing, the nervous system and connecting with your own body
Discover how, through conscious breathing and targeted body exercises, you can build more connection with yourself again. You’ll learn how your breath works together with your nervous system and how you can use it to regulate yourself. With simple exercises you get out of your head and into your body, notice your needs more consciously and create space for more inner calm and clarity.

Background from the podcast: “Stimmig wirken im Business – im Gespräch mit Anna Troia” (Wandelkraft)

Below we sum up the key thoughts and offers from the podcast episode by Diana Osterhage and Anna Troia (“Working in tune in business”) that Torsten refers to above.

Out of the “higher, faster, further” costume

Anna Troia comes from marketing and project management, worked for a long time as a freelancer for an agency and followed her inner voice all the way to Ecuador. In the conversation the two describe a basic problem of our working world: many people squeeze themselves into someone else’s costume, follow rigid strategies or chase the promises of the social-media bubble. There are the mysterious “10,000 euros a month” you supposedly have to make as a self-employed person, or the programme that promises: “In four weeks you’ll know how it’s done.” We let goals be forced on us that aren’t our own, and tune out the body’s warning signs – poor sleep, tension, stomach ache – until we’ve drifted far from our own nature.

Abundance instead of artificial scarcity

Diana Osterhage puts this contradiction into a simple picture: why don’t we feel pleasure and abundance when we get to eat a piece of chocolate, and instead believe we’re lacking as long as we can’t choose between seven or eight kinds? Working in tune means turning that around: not chasing outside impulses out of scarcity and fear, but acting from what is there in this moment.

Spaces of permission and connection

Many people commit a large sum to a year-long or six-month programme, realise after three sessions that it wasn’t the right thing after all, and still have eight to go. Anna Troia opens “spaces of permission and connection” instead. Her core idea: the answers are already inside us. What it takes is a space where we pause, hear them and aren’t alone with what we’re carrying.

What Anna Troia offers

1:1 sparring in a package of four (pay what you can): four 60-minute sessions, usually within eight weeks, for self-employed people and those on their way into self-employment who have a lot going on in their heads. What happens in a session shows itself at the start: sometimes pausing and meditating together, sometimes impulses from the Maya calendar, sometimes a very practical brainstorm on positioning.

The “business family”: a small group of usually four or five people, every Thursday afternoon, which started as co-working with impulses from the Maya calendar. After a short guided arrival meditation everyone shares what’s going on. Then each works on her own projects, from being in tune rather than from head pressure.

Why pay what you can creates presence

Diana and Anna talk openly about half-hearted donation models (“donation based, but please more than 5 dollars” or “between 10 and …”). Their verdict: either you name a fixed price, or you go fully into trust. The mix doesn’t work.

For Anna the change came through a Christmas auction where she gave away her package of four. She felt how much pressure fell away, including the question at the back of her mind of what a client expects for a certain price. Since then her four sessions have been a pay-what-you-can offer. Where the price tag disappears, the session is only about you and me: presence from person to person, and everyone gives what feels right to them.

🤖 Reflection quiz on Thought #459

Three questions to keep thinking. Choose an answer – you will then get an explanation and a prompt for self-reflection.

According to Torsten, what is at the core of the collaboration between UNO.TEAM, Diana Osterhage and Anna Troia?
A) A strict, multi-year exclusive contract with fixed sales targets.
B) An open collaboration without a formal contract and without obligation, based on common ground and shared goals.
C) A classic franchise system with central authority to give instructions.
D) A purely state-funded association.
What effect do Anna Troia and Diana Osterhage describe in the podcast when you let go of fixed prices in 1:1 sparring and trust in real “pay what you can”?
A) You only work from a strictly standardised four-week script.
B) You secretly still demand a minimum price in the small print.
C) There is no commitment any more, so conversations stay on the surface.
D) The subtle pressure of a ready-made expectation falls away, creating a deeper, freer presence from person to person.
Which two levels does Torsten bring together under the UNO.TEAM roof in this post?
A) The free platform cooperation around the “Erlebnisräume” (with Diana Osterhage and Anna Troia) and the exchange of experience between the three Ukrainian women who fled, Iryna, Ksenia and Marina.
B) A tech company’s stock market launch and selling insurance.
C) A pure translation office for official forms and a tax firm.
D) Placing fixed-term temp contracts in large corporations.