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Welcome to Gamelanjourney. This website is a personal landing page and occasional blog by Daniel Dermitzel.

Here I share some short inspirations, writings, radio broadcasts and information about things I’ve done and projects I’ve been a part of. Right now — in Summer 2026 — I’m making frequent changes and updates to this site, so please visit often.

The name “Gamelanjourney” is a reference to the amazing journey  I call My Life and to one of this journey’s most memorable soundtracks: the gamelan music of Indonesia which first touched my heart during a visit to that country in the early 1990s and never let go.

I encourage you to also visit my business website www.danieldermitzel.com where you can learn more about my work as a mediator and workshop facilitator, find out about upcoming events, and read about my educational background and formal training.

Paths along the Journey

What is Mindfulness and why is it needed?

“Mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. It is the continuous practice of touching life deeply in every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly alive, present and at one with those around you and with what you are doing.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“Now the patient isn’t an individual person suffering from chronic back pain or headaches or heart failure or something like that. The patient is the planet. The patient are all these individual nations which are at war with each other and creating havoc in terms of destruction on unimaginable levels, human destruction and also eco-destruction on fantastic levels. […] I think the challenge is a very big one but I don’t know anything other than mindfulness that is actually remotely up to this challenge and that gives me a lot of hope in the face of so much despair and suffering on planet Earth at the moment.“

Jon Kabat Zinn in an Instagram post by the Mind and Life Institute in June 2026.

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Ever Thought about Becoming a Farmer? A Crash Course for Urbanites and Reflections on a Keynote 27 Years Ago

This spring I have the pleasure of working with a dozen or so Berliners to explore urban farming as a profession and opportunity for entrepreneurship. The project is part of an EU-funded Erasmus Plus partnership made up of universities from 3 different countries and the small nonprofit organization I work for, the Prinzessinnengarten Kollektiv Berlin. …

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