Dr. Simone Helmle
born May 30, 1969 in Westerwald
2025
Bildungsmomente
Adult education, supervision and social art. Freelance trainer and facilitator. I work for the Sekem Foundation, Bildungsnetzwerk Naturkost, Freunde der Erziehungskunst and Freie Ausbildung im Süden, among others.
2024
Meantime
Drawing, photography, writing, trainer manual, as well as further training "Eurythmy and High Sensitivity" with certificate as HSP course instructor, Eurythmie4you.
2022 - 2023
Master class in resilient entrepreneurship in agriculture and horticulture
Design of the pioneering phase of the project with project, team and course management. Lecturer for the subject of socioculture. Creation of the didactic basis, testing of the concepts. Quality management incl. AZAV recognition. Freie Landbauschule Bodensee e.V., Überlingen.
2014 - 2021
Demeter Academy
Management and development of courses for biodynamic professional training, personal development, business start-ups and business development. Courses for biodynamic conversion farms, processing and trade, including the establishment of a network of trainers. Classroom and online formats, Demeter e-learning. Demeter e.V., Darmstadt.
2013 - 2014
Agricultural sociology and advisory work
Guest-professor and managing director with the teaching areas: Agricultural sociology, qualitative and quantitative social research, communication, non-directive counseling, trainings in soft skills. Justus-Liebig University Giessen.
2012 - 2013
Social sciences of agriculture
Guest-Professor and Managing Director at the Department of Agricultural Communication and advisory work, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.
2011
Habilitation
Topic I "Images of agriculture", Topic II "Women in agriculture - a socio-scientific-historical view of their self-image", University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.
2004 - 2012
Communication and Advisory Work
Research assistant, research and teaching in the fields of agricultural sociology, organizational development, theme-centered interaction, client-centered conversation and empirical social research. University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.
2004
PhD
Topic "Finding identity and well-being. On the symbolism of the action "shopping in the organic food store" on the basis of life story narratives". University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.
1998 - 2004
Rural and agricultural sociology
Research assistant with full teaching load in the subjects of rural, agricultural, development and environmental sociology, as well as extension and empirical social research. Technical University of Munich - Weihenstephan.
1991 - 1997
Horticultural Sciences, Diploma
Studies and extensive practical experience with farmers in Germany, Brazil and São Tomé and Príncipe in West Africa. Technical University of Munich - Weihenstephan.
In 1996, I had the opportunity to take part in a training course at the German Foundation for International Development (DSE). I suspect that I didn't understand too much back then, but the concept of participant orientation and the open, accepting attitude that is needed for all-party participation processes has shaped my career to this day. Today I would say that a seed was planted there and in the years since then I have had countless opportunities to grow with this seed. Thank you for this valuable initial impulse.