Partner profile: Fabian and Paul🧡

Since November 2023📣
We started hitchhiking around the world, wuhu! 🥳🌍🎒

For now, we want to hibernate in the south of Europe to skip the freezing German winter – hibernation with lots of activity, learning, engaging, connecting and growing, at the same time in a sense starting to rest our selves from the fast-moving, consumeristic, capitalistic, space-restricting society we try to break out of☀️😊

We are looking for a way to navigate in this funny and crazy experience of being🤩 We are currently aiming to grow and heal, to connect with ourselves and others, live consciously, give space and permission to be and flow with what emerges in our consciousness. We are cultivating a deep intention on how to be and yet keep wondering about this wonder we find ourselves every moment in🫠

We practice radical honesty and nonviolent communication with the idea of taking responsibility for one’s own feelings and needs, being able to set boundaries, while also cultivating loving kindness towards others and wanting to fulfil their needs – searching for compatibility in our ways of being and finding safety🫶

In the future we might create and hold spaces ourselves where people can experience and explore these ideas of connection💑

We have a dream of one day maybe owning our own land, living self-sufficiently, maybe in a community with others who share our way of being, creating a space to feel safe, loved and have fun🤟

For this we are looking to gather insights in other people’s realities, sharing some time on our journeys, learning and giving back. We are very much interested in every part of what it needs to sustain life off-grid and find ourselves with lots of motivation to learn😊☀️🌍

We are tolerant, vegan, spiritual 🏳️‍🌈🫂

⛔ We are against racism, homophobia, discrimination, capitalism, colonialism and hate.

When Hosting in Cologne:

Hi, we've just moved in such a cozy house and can finally host again 🏡🥰 from our many hitchhiking trips through Europe, we know how spontaneously you might arrive:

No worries! We accept very last minute requests🥳

Our guest bed is in the same room as ours but still offers a bit of privacy (see pictures).

If you already have a place to stay and looking for activities, feel free to join our boardgame nights, philosophy club or art experiments🧘🏻🎰🎨

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Exchanging experiences from heart to heart💞 giving without expecting to receive something back🎁 expending the idea of one's selfconcept 🧘🏻

Interests

Share the world's beauty and new perspectives with fascinating strangers 🌍🏞️

Before starting on our world trip we owned 150 board games :D and still love to play a lot

We would love to visit conscious spaces, maybe together with you :D

In communication we try to follow: Non violent communication, radical honesty, rogers humanistic basis (empathy, authenticity, positive regard), tolerance of ambiguity🗣️

Professions 👩‍🎓

Fabian: counselling, mediation (peacemaking), youthwork, antidiscrimination, intuitive archery, communication, craftsmanship, outdoor education, learning coach...

Paul: activism, youthwotk, intuitive archery, communication, worked on a banana farm for 3 months, loves working in nature, (vegan) cooking, nutrition, ...

• backpacking
• philosophy
• hitchhiking
• meeting new people

Music, Movies, and Books

📚 The child in you (Stefanie Stahl)
— Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
— Intimacy (Osho)
— The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
— The alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
— Nonviolent communication (Rosenberg)
— Kummer aller Art (Mariana Leky)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

True altruism (Sister Corda)

Teach, Learn, Share

Accepting oneself with every mistake that makes us who we are💛

"If everyone knew everything about each other, everyone would forgive easily and willingly, there would be no more conceit and arrogance."

What I Can Share with Hosts

Couch or bed, funny activities, cooking together, interesting talks

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, South Africa