Medical Anthropology Forum Translating Wor(l)ds – From Medical Anthropology to Business Coaching

Florian Besch did his PhD research at the SAI on sociopolitical aspects of the work of Tibetan Amchi in Spiti Valley in the early 2000s. After leaving university he founded a company for team development, coaching and organizational development in Göttingen. He continued to focus on aspects of health and embodiment. Today, he is specialized as a business coach on resilience, trauma-informed leadership and healthy team processes. Within his talk he will bring these aspects together and explore what it means to translate alternative or spiritual medical knowledge systems into a Western scientific domain. Within this context he will discuss what it means to translate holistic or spiritual understandings of health into a cognitive and goal-oriented business world: Is there a development trajectory between Medical Anthropology and business coaching? What can we learn from specifically anthropological methods and topics for the work in the business world, and vice versa?