Sibylle Dörge

I was born in Schwäbisch Hall (Germany) in 1969 and grew up as the youngest of four children in a musical family in Stuttgart. The cello became my main instrument, which I found under the Christmas tree at the age of 6.

After graduating from high school, I went to Basel and studied music and musicology there as well as baroque cello in Amsterdam at the same time. I pursued high goals. My desire was to become a teacher at university, but this path was denied to me. That is why I completed this phase of my life with a soloist diploma in violoncello and, at the same time, reoriented my life with a vocational training in Business Management.

I began my professional restart at SWR in orchestra management. I then moved to SWR Media GmbH as a Rights and Licences Administrator, while also working as Managing Director of the Amadeus Orchestra Stuttgart. In my early 30s I became Product Manager Classical & Jazz at Sony Music in Switzerland. I have held other positions, including Head of CD/DVD Department at Musikhaus Krompholz and Headmistress of the rml (music school).

A three-year part-time psychological training in Transactional Analysis and postgraduate studies in Expressive Arts (Coaching Consulting Therapy) were crucial for my personal and professional development.

In 2009 I founded my company Coaching for Musicians and specialised in stage fright reduction and band coaching. I developed a model that can reduce stage fright within 4 sessions as well as a school of life.

Over the next few years, I presented my company (Coaching for Musicians & Artists) at several trade fairs, including the Frankfurt Music Fair, the Freiburg Artists' Exchange, and the Swiss Artists' Exchange. At that time, I was the first person to present the profession of artist coach at a trade fair. My clients included – besides renowned artists – the German Music Council, the German Society for Music Physiology and Musician Medicine (DGfMM), and the Musik Akademie Basel.

After separating from my long-term partner, I fulfilled a long-held wish and emigrated to Cape Town in 2011. Various circumstances led me to return to Stuttgart the following year, where I have been living ever since.

Within a few years, I published four guidebooks. The first two, ‘Understanding and Overcoming Unemployment’ and ‘Understanding and Overcoming Crises’, were published in 2015 and presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In 2017, the guidebook ‘How Life Goes – Understanding Life’ followed.

At the age of 50, I unexpectedly reached the life level of enlightenment. It was a formative event. I realised that this would change a lot in my life.

Two years later my self-help book ‘Path to Enlightenment – Simply Live Happily’ was published, and shortly afterwards my Balance Model.

Since the end of 2024, I have been using social media and posting my knowledge about the interrelations in life on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/wisdomblissenlightenment and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLZfLR9qp4lhCFXHxe6tBzg