
Where systems find their own way.
Facilitation and accompaniment for individuals, therapists, organisations, institutions, movements, and leadership teams, where what is already alive is given room to organise itself.
Update
I am currently in a period of deep integration, living, in other words, what I work with. I am not taking on longer individual processes or larger facilitation assignments right now.
You are welcome to book a short online meeting (20 minutes) for clarification (Contact form at the bottom of the page). I usually respond within 48 hours.
Martin J. Reinholtz
My work happens at the intersection of the psychological, somatic, and ecological. With individuals navigating genuine thresholds, and with helpers, leaders, communities, and organisations across scales. I have particularly long experience with activists, artists, and those who live outside the established tracks, and with ordinary people who find themselves somewhere they didn't expect to be, carrying something heavier than they can carry alone.
A particular interest runs through all of it: living human systems. How they self-organise, how they get stuck, and how they find their way again. This especially comes true when working with ecological grief and transformation, often held in groups and in nature, generally over several days and longer timeframes.
One thing I have come to trust, through years of close work with people and through my own long wandering into the heart of the dark, is that much of what matters most happens before and beneath the words. The body often knows what the mind is still trying to work out. The sound of a bird can reach all the way inside. The quality of grass underfoot can shift something that months of conversation could not. Given enough safety and time, something can complete that words alone rarely reach.
What I bring into the room is not primarily a method, but a quality of presence that has grown by having walked through the terrain. I know from the inside what it means to lose all ground under your feet, not as a metaphor but completely, and to find it again. To feel the difference between a body that belongs to the living world and one that has forgotten it does. That particular journey has made certain things visible that are difficult to see from more comfortable ground.
Complementary to this I bring resources carefully crafted through over thirty years of meditation, qigong, and nature connection. Qigong in particular has become central, not as exercise or technique, but as a direct means of restoring what disconnection takes away. The felt sense of being rooted. The channel between earth and sky moving through a body that has remembered it is not separate from either.
In my backpack i also bring a Master's degree in Organisational and Leadership Psychology on the roots of ecocentric leadership, a long and unlikely career in contemporary leadership development, a significant impact through environmental and Cultural movements throughout Europe, and, on the side, a practice as a children's magician. The magician is not unrelated to the rest.
I work from a small forest setting on Nesodden, south of Oslo. Nature here is not a backdrop but an active participant. The forest, the fjord, the deer, the rasberry bushed, the moose, the bird sound, the particular quality of light through the trees, co-workers. Much of what we carry was never only ours to carry. And the living world is more willing to bear it with us than we might think.

Offerings, ethics, and pricing.→ Working together

Individual accompaniment
I walk with people through genuine descents, and through the slow, often disorienting work of finding ground again on the other side. Through what the body has carried for a long time, perhaps so long it has begun to feel like you. Through the aftereffects of experiences, relational, communal, inherited and ecological, that shaped the nervous system and have not yet found their completion. Through the gradual recognition of something that was always there, but never had room.
Sessions take place in the forest preferrably.
Sensing Leadership
Depth as the foundation of genuine organisational life
I work with leaders and leadership teams who sense that something more fundamental is in movement. In themselves, in the organisation, and in the wider living systems they are part of. The work touches the body, the relationship between people, and the quality of attention a leader brings into a room, a decision, a moment of genuine not-knowing.
For organisations sensing that something more fundamental needs to shift, toward ways of working that are more alive, more honest, and more genuinely connected to the human and earth systems they are part of, I offer processes that begin where most development work does not reach.
Some of this work takes place outdoors. In direct contact with living systems rather than representations of them.

Ecological Grief & Reconnection

For those who carry the world and need somewhere to put it down.
Climate change. Species loss. Landscapes disappearing. Knowing what you know and continuing to live an ordinary life. The inner split this creates is not pathology. It is a reasonable response to an unreasonable situation.
What this grief needs is not management. It needs room. Room to be felt in the body, held in relationship, and met in contact with the living world that the mourning is actually for.
I facilitate this work primarily in groups, most often in nature, where the setting itself helps the nervous system settle and something wider can become available. Sessions are held as a contained process over at least three days, long enough for real contact, somatic depth, and the kind of reflection that only comes when things slow down enough to be felt.
The work draws on somatic approaches to grief and activation, on the relational field that forms when people gather with genuine intention, and on the more than human world as an active participant in the process rather than just a backdrop.
I am a practitioner of the Work That Reconnects, the framework developed by Joanna Macy for meeting ecological grief and finding renewed connection to life. It is one thread among several that inform how I work.
What I have found, over many years of facilitating this kind of process, is that ecological grief rarely stays ecological for long. Underneath the rage, and the grief for the world there is almost always something more personal. And underneath that, almost always, something that is not grief at all.
The work moves toward that.
Sessions take place in nature.
The Place
Nature as participant, not setting
The work takes place primarily from a small forest setting on Nesodden, south of Oslo.
Something in the nervous system recognises this kind of ground. Settles into it. Begins to remember a relationship with living presence that most of everyday life obscures.
This is not metaphor. The more-than-human world has its own way of moving what nothing else can reach — and that is part of what this work draws on.
For individuals, the setting offers a quality of ground that supports what is difficult to find indoors. For leadership groups and organisations, there is its own logic in beginning the work of reconnection somewhere that is genuinely alive.
Online work is available where distance or context requires it.
Deep Time Walk guided by Martin with 80 participants - Clip from Documentary
Video: Alvaro Alvarez
Deep Time Walk
A guided walking immersion where ecological time—past, present, and future—is experienced scientifically, emotionally and bodily. In relation with nature, participants practice sensing, and reconnecting through the lens of geological time. Through storytelling the journey becomes alive with each step taken representing one million years.
The Systems Game (as part of the walk)
A simple, nonverbal movement practice where participants keep equal distance between two others. In that constrained field, the group discovers how a self-organising system emerges—quietly, in movement, moment by moment.
Contact
If you would like to explore working together, please use the form below and briefly describe what you are seeking support with and what you hope for from a conversation.
I usually respond within 48 hours.
Articles
The Three Hearts
A somatic map for sustainable ecological service
An embodied philosophical framework
On Developmental Stage and the Limits of
Clinical Presence
The depth at which you can meet others is the depth you yourself have traveled. For therapists, leaders, and those navigating real descents.
Anger, Love, and the Earth That Receives
On the missing container, the non-flinching witness, and the transpersonal heart
