Paul J. Kohtes

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Paul J. Kohtes (born July 7, 1945 ) is a German entrepreneur, author, Zen teacher, speaker and foundation chairman.

Live and act

Kohtes & Klewes Communication and Identity Foundation

In 1988 he founded the consulting company Kohtes & Klewes Kommunikation (today Ketchum ) with Joachim Klewes and in 1998 the Identity Foundation , a non-profit foundation for philosophy, with his wife at the time .

The Identity Foundation researches the self-image as well as philosophical developments in different cultural areas. It stands for a cosmopolitan view of human existence and looks at questions of identity from the perspective of potential development and the reciprocity of individual development and social sustainability. In addition to its own series of salons at the Phil.Cologne philosophy festival, important projects of the foundation include several major studies on the self-image of executives in the context of cultural change and the cultural significance of the philosophical as well as the “Meditation & Science” congress, which has been held every two years since 2010 Provides impulses for the development of consciousness in society and culture.

Meister Eckhart Prize

Between 2001 and 2014, the Identity Foundation awarded the Meister Eckhart Prize for Philosophy seven times, since 2007 together with the University of Cologne, and in 2014 in cooperation with Phil.Cologne. The winners are: Richard Rorty (2001), Claude Lévi-Strauss (2003), Ernst Tugendhat (2005), Amartya Sen (2007), Amitai Etzioni (2009), Michel Serres (2012), Seyla Benhabib (2014).

7Min

In 2014 Kohtes developed the meditation app 7Mind together with the students Jonas Leve and Manuel Ronnefeldt in order to make meditation and mindfulness suitable for everyday use. 7Mind is now Germany's most popular meditation app with over 1.5 million downloads.

healing formula

In 2016 he published the app healing formula , which draws on the wisdom traditions of world cultures with exercises and impulses and is intended to contribute to mental and physical well-being.

present

Today Paul Kohtes works primarily as a Zen teacher and management consultant and leads Zen seminars for managers. He is also Chairman of the Presidium of the West-Eastern Wisdom Willigis Jäger Foundation .

Publications (selection)

  • Silver moon in a dark night. Zen poems . Kamphausen Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 978-3-89901-047-3
  • Your job is to be free. Zen and the art of management . Kamphausen Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 978-3-89901-043-5
  • She's already waiting in front of your door. The wisdom book from breath to zen . Kamphausen Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-89901-093-0
  • Stop running. What managers can learn from Hase & Igel . Kamphausen Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-89901-096-1
  • Jesus for managers. Be free in your job and in life . Kamphausen Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89901-142-5
  • The book of nothing. With Zen to a life in abundance. Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8338-2374-9 (with audio CD).
  • with Nadja Rosman: Leadership with mindfulness. What meditation does for companies . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-94865-3
  • Master Eckhart. 33 gates to the good life . Patmos Verlag, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-8436-0501-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Kohtes: Grasping the core - Zen in (self) management. In: horizonworld.de. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Klett-Cotta Verlag: Paul J. Kohtes Biography, Books, Information. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ phil.cologne - IDENTITY ≡ FOUNDATION | Non-profit foundation for philosophy. Accessed June 29, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Congress Meditation & Science. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Identity Foundation: Who we are. In: identity-foundation.de. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Meister Eckhart Prize - IDENTITY ≡ FOUNDATION | Non-profit foundation for philosophy. Accessed June 29, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ 7Min. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ healing formula - My direct path to inner healing. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Zen for Leadership |. Retrieved June 29, 2020 (American English).
  10. ↑ http://stiftung-benediktushof.de/index.php?id=202
personal data
SURNAME Kohtes, Paul J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohtes, Paul Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German PR consultant, book author, Zen teacher and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1945