Welcome

Welcome to Gamelanjourney, the personal landing page of Daniel Dermitzel.

Here I share short inspirations, writings, radio broadcasts, and information about my 

projects I’ve undertaken or plan to be a part of. Right now, in Summer 2026, I’m making frequent updates, so please visit again from time to time.

The collection presented here is eclectic and spans many topics and interests. It is my hope that, as I keep refining the site, a recurring theme of wishing to cultivate conditions in which life can flourish, will emerge as the connecting tissue among the various strands.  

The name Gamelanjourney is a reference to the extraordinary journey I call my life, and to one of its most memorable soundtracks: the exquisite gamelan music of Indonesia. It can often be heard during traditional shadow puppet performances (Wayang Kulit), where stories unfold on both sides of a screen.

I encourage you to also visit my professional website where re you can learn more about my work as a mediator and workshop facilitator, find out about upcoming events, and read about my qualifications, education and 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, the creator of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, 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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