Meet the EU-PROMENS Trainers in Germany
Christian Möbius
Professional and Personal Development
Since 2020 - Freelance Group Analyst
Since 2017 - Employee at TransVer Charité – Network for Intercultural Opening:
- Counseling of people with mental health issues and migration/refugee backgrounds
- Head of training programs for psychosocial professionals (topics include Containing Competence, Mentalization-Based Work, Countertransference)
- Supervisor for interdisciplinary supervision groups (since 2019)
- Peer case consultation
2015-2017 - Teacher at vocational school for educators, Johannisstift Berlin
2012-2017 - Social Worker in social psychiatry, Der Steg gGmbH, Berlin
2007-2012 - Group leader for voluntary service seminars, Diocese of Trier
2004-2011 - Volunteer at SoFiA e.V., group leader for seminars
2005-2009 - Mentor for volunteers in Poland and Ukraine
2002-2003 - Voluntary service in Kraków, Poland
Additional Qualifications
2017-2023 - Training as Group Analyst, BIG
2011-2014 - Training in NLP and DBT
2009-2011 - Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI)
2005 - Development Aid Facilitator training, AGEH, Cologne
Education
2004-2011 - Studies in Education (Degree: Diplom-Pädagoge equivalent to Master Degree in Science of Education) Sociology - Philosophy of Education - Lifelong Learning - Psychology, University of Trier
Dr. rer. medic. Simone Penka (M.A.)
Professional Activities
- Since 2017: Director of TransVer-Resource Network for Intercultural Openness (www.transver-berlin.de), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Mitte, Charité-University Medicine Berlin (funded by the State of Berlin): Counseling for people with a history of migration or displacement and mental health issues / Continuing education programs for staff in the psychosocial, social psychiatric, and psychotherapeutic care sectors.
- August 2024 to June 2026: Co- leadership of the project SIMPLE - ‘Sprache öffnet Türen’ [Language Opens Doors],Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité Berlin and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Health.
- Since 2021, co-leader of the Berlin-wide working group “Migration and Health” (Gesundheit Berlin Brandenburg e.V.).
- 2019–2022: Lead coordinator of Subproject 1: Assessment of substance use and criteria for best practices“ within the research consortium “PREPARE-Prevention and Treatment of Substance-Related Disorders Among Refugees” (funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF) at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Mitte, Charité-University Medicine Berlin.
- 2015–2026: Chair of the “Intercultural Opening0000” working group of the Psychosocial Working Group (PSAG) Mitte.
- 2009–2014: Research assistant in the research project “Mental Health and Migration” (SeGeMi) (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation) at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Mitte Campus.
- 2004–2009 and 2014–2016: Social worker at the Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic (PIA) of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Mitte Campus.
Educational background
- 2016: PhD. in Medical Sciences (Doctor rerum medicarum) from Charité – University Medicine Berlin.
- 1996–2002: Study of Educational science and Ethnology at Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg.
Fiamma Rupp
Fiamma Rupp is a clinical psychologist and mental health and wellbeing expert with more than 20 years of international experience in mental health, psychosocial support, and child protection.
She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience from Columbia University and a Master’s degree from Harvard University focusing on child psychology, organisational psychology, education policy, international humanitarian assistance, management, and leadership. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Politics, Philosophy, History and Economics at King’s College London and the London School of Economics.
Within the EU-PROMENS programme, she has been a lead contributor to the development of the multidisciplinary competency framework, training programme and case studies that underpin the initiative.
Fiamma Rupp works at UNICEF Headquarters in the field of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and specialises in mental health and child protection in situations of armed conflict and humanitarian crises, including field work in Afghanistan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and the Central African Republic.
She leads the WHO-UNICEF EQUIP initiative, developing competency frameworks and training programmes for the global mental health workforce, and has published in The Lancet Psychiatry.
She is also the author of “The Art of Mindfulness” and the developer of the Neuroceptive Leadership approach.
