Signature Workshops · Designed & Led Personally by Lisa

Relocating has an emotional side no textbook covers. These workshops were made for it.

Grammar books can teach you the dative. They can't teach you what to do with the loneliness of a new city, the awkwardness of making friends in a second language, or the strange grief of missing a home you chose to leave. As a trained art therapist and language instructor who has lived in many countries herself, Lisa designed these workshops to cover exactly that, in a format you won't find in any standard German course. Every workshop is led exclusively by Lisa.

Workshop 01 · Language survival

Survival German

Small group · online · all levels welcome

The essential phrases, ready-made scripts, and cultural cues that carry you through your first 90 days in a German-speaking country, so arrival week feels like a plan, not a plunge.

  • Word-for-word scripts for arrival week: transport, shopping, eating out, emergencies
  • The appointments script: making, changing, and surviving them in German
  • Cultural cues that prevent the classic newcomer missteps
  • A take-home survival kit you'll actually use on the ground
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Workshop 02 · Social connection

Making Connections in Germany

Small group · online · A2 and up recommended

Germans aren't unfriendly. Friendship just works differently here. This workshop decodes the social culture of German-speaking countries so you can build real connections instead of collecting polite acquaintances.

  • Small-talk norms: what to say, what to skip, and why "How are you?" confuses everyone
  • The du/Sie dance, and how invitations and reciprocity actually work
  • Joining a Verein, sports club, or parent circle: your fastest routes to community
  • Turning colleagues and neighbors into people who text you first
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Workshop 03 · Art-therapy informed

Finding & Feeling at Home

Small group · online · no art skills or perfect German required

The workshop closest to Lisa's heart, and the one that draws most directly on her training as an art therapist. A gentle, creative session about identity, belonging, and homesickness: who you are in your new language, what "home" means when it's split across countries, and how to feel rooted again.

  • Guided creative exercises for processing the emotional side of relocation
  • Space to name what's hard (homesickness, identity shifts, starting over) with people who get it
  • Practical rituals for building a sense of home, starting now
  • Truly no prerequisites: no art skills, no perfect German, no pressure
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New topics rotate through the year. Lisa regularly designs new workshops around what relocating clients are living through. Join the interest list below and you'll hear about new topics and dates first.
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Tell us which workshop you're interested in and we'll email you the next date, times (US & European time zones), and how to reserve a spot. No obligation, just first dibs.

Why these workshops exist

A note from Lisa

I've moved countries many times. I know the version of homesickness that shows up three months in, when the novelty fades and everything is still hard. And I know how much of settling in has nothing to do with vocabulary lists. It's about who you get to be in your new language, and whether anyone there really knows you yet.

My training as an art therapist taught me how people process exactly these transitions, and nine years of language teaching taught me where courses leave people alone with them. These workshops are where those two halves of my work meet. I design and lead every one of them myself, and I'd love to have you there.

Lisa

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Book a free 15-minute consultation and we'll figure it out together: your timeline, your level, and the right mix of coaching and workshops for your move.