Henning Köhler (curative teacher)

Henning Köhler (* 1951 ) is a German curative educator , child and youth therapist and author .

Life

Henning Köhler worked as a home educator , small class teacher , clinical curative educator and in free youth work . In 1986 he founded the curative-therapeutic outpatient clinic, which has been part of the Janusz Korczak Institute in Nürtingen (JKI) since 1987 . In recent years the JKI has developed into a working group of several practices and advice centers (in Nürtingen, Cologne, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg and Verona). Henning Köhler is a co-founder of the study group for new pedagogy , which u. a. organized educational conferences.

Köhler is critical of the administration of psychotropic drugs in children and adolescents with attention disorders and is a member of the scientific board of trustees of the ADHD conference. His main concern is to look at so-called behavioral children with different eyes. Motto: "Find the gold in the child instead of staring at deficits." He has been accused on various occasions of playing down problems with this attitude. His assertion that psychodiagnostic labels are often superfluous or improper is controversial even in Waldorf education circles, where he is well known.

Köhler is conceptually responsible for several professional training courses in Germany, Austria and Italy, which are primarily aimed at educators and teachers. He works as a curative teacher, child and youth therapist and as an educational advisor in private practice, advises schools and kindergartens, goes on lecture tours at home and abroad and publishes in various magazines. He is visiting professor at the Alanus University (Alfter) and has been a columnist for the magazine erziehungskunst for almost ten years . Henning Köhler's books have been translated into twelve languages.

Publications

• The silent longing to return home. To understand puberty anorexia. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House , Stuttgart 1987, new edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-7725-1560-6 .
• Youth in conflict. Verlag Freie Geistesleben, Stuttgart 1990, 7th edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-7725-2519-3 .
• From the riddle of fear. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1992, 4th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-7725-1061-8 .
• The story king and the star child. A fairy tale. Free Spiritual Life publishers, Stuttgart 1992, 4th edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-7725-0912-4
• The story king and the star child. A fairy tale. Free Spiritual Life Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, audio book, read by Christoph Köhler, with music by Kirsten Christmann, ISBN 978-3-7725-2469-1 .
• About fearful, sad and restless children. Verlag Freie Geistesleben, Stuttgart 1994, 8th edition 2013, ISBN 3-7725-1186-4 .
• People in the field of tension between self-creation and adaptation. Health initiative publisher, Esslingen 1995, ISBN 3-926444-24-X .
• The secret of childhood. What tasks do parents and teachers face today? , 2001, special edition for the 10th anniversary of the Free Waldorf School Jena (out of print).
• There are no difficult children. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1997.7. Edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-7725-2164-5 .
• From the origin of longing. The healing power of creativity and tenderness. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1998, 3rd edition 2007, ISBN 3-7725-2163-0 .
• The original biographical phenomenon. The secret of the human life. Health initiative publisher, Esslingen 1998, ISBN 3-932161-13-0 .
• Eros as a quality of understanding. Lecture. FIU-Verlag, Wangen im Allgäu 1998, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 3-928780-18-2 .
• About the miracle of childhood. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2000. Extended new edition 2003, ISBN 3-7725-1266-6 .
• What did we do wrong? Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7725-1260-7 . (Out of print. New edition in preparation.)
• Was Michel from Lönneberga disturbed? The AD (H) S myth and the new generation of children. Verlag Freie Geistesleben, Stuttgart 2002, 5th edition 2013, ISBN 3-7725-1937-7 .
• The human life as a work of art. Two lectures. FIU-Verlag, Wangen im Allgäu 2011, ISBN 978-3-928780-32-2 .
• Conduct disorder or behavioral originality? Stuttgart 2001, International Association of Waldorf Kindergartens, series of publications right to childhood, a human right.
• A future for every child. DVD video, Schönemetzer Filmproduktion, Cologne 2006
• Who or what looks at you when a newborn baby looks at you? DVD Video, G.Emde-Verlag, Pittenhardt 2010. (No ISBN)
• Parents, fight back! Audio book, Rundfunkwerkstatt Lübeck / Hg. Association Würdigung des Kindseins eV 2010, distributed by the Free Pedagogical Working Group (FPA) Zurich.
• Healing pedagogy in times of tension. Audiobook, Sentovision Verlag, Münchenstein (Switzerland) 2013, ISBN 978-3-03752-088-8 .
• Myth AD (H) S. Do Michel and Momo really need psycho pills? Audiobook (5 CDs), Gesundheit-aktiv publishing house / Association for anthroposophic healing, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-942192-01-9 .
• Root weight and hedgehog (with Johanna Schneider). A picture book for children. Mellinger-Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-88069-449-1
• The snail, the raven and the ticklish beech, Wirkstatt-Verlag, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-9524677-0-1
• Individual development - what does that actually mean? About the I-Riddle in Biography, Gesundheitspflege initiativ, Esslingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-932161-86-5

The audio book publisher AUDITORIUM Netzwerk, Müllheim / Baden has published:

• Children who fall out of the ordinary. Defense speech for dysfunctional children. CD, 2004
• The value-recognizing look and the protective circle. Exercise paths for educators. CD, 2005
• Who's afraid of little Max? About the relationship between authority and violence in education. CD / DVD, 2010
• Behavioral problems, mental crises and needs of children and adolescents. CD / DVD, 2011
• Course advisor for general and special educational questions , modules I - XIV, study material, 62 hours on 12 MP3-CDs, 2011/1

Henning Köhler has also contributed to several anthologies and regularly publishes in various magazines.

Web links

• Literature by and about Henning Köhler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait of Henning Koehler on the website of the Janusz Korczak Institute