Committees

The Moving Child Foundation is supported by two bodies that jointly ensure effectiveness, transparency, and accountability: the Foundation Board and the Executive Board.

The Foundation Board consists of 2-5 persons and is the highest governing body. It has a wide range of tasks, including the management and strategic orientation of the foundation. It sets the strategic goals and ensures that the foundation’s purpose is fulfilled.

The Executive Board consists of 2-5 people. It represents the foundation legally to the outside world and is responsible for the operational implementation of the foundation’s goals.

Foundation Board

Anna Schulz-Dornburg

Chairwoman

“Every child deserves to be treated with respect and care. They deserve to live in safety, dignity, and joy – to play, grow, dream, and simply be a child.“

I was born in Munich in 1966.
Since childhood, I have always wondered how I could help people and support them in their healing process. This deep-rooted curiosity has been the compass for my life and has shaped my personal journey with meaning and passion.

My professional career began as a physical therapist and later as a naturopath in my own practice. I quickly realized that I wanted to continue learning and researching in order to gain a deeper and more holistic understanding of the complexity and vulnerability of human existence. This required not only differentiated knowledge, but also the courage to face myself.

Through my many years of therapeutic work with process- and resource-oriented approaches, I was able to gather a wealth of valuable experience and insights. It has become clear to me that true strength lies in vulnerability and that the deepest learning often begins with not knowing. Accepting this not knowing has led me to a place of inner stillness that allows me to accept different perspectives with an open heart and to see changing views as a profound enrichment.

My training in craniosacral therapy, body-oriented psychotherapy (Hakomi), systemic family constellations, trauma therapy, and dance therapy has enabled me to perceive people—especially children—in an even more empathetic and nuanced way, taking their individual needs into account. Dealing with the subject of death and further training in crisis, hospice, and grief counseling also gave me a deeper understanding of how to empathically and supportively accompany affected children and their parents.

Fifteen years ago, I founded Moving Child gGmbH with Gertraud Leimstaettner, my life partner. Since then, I have been working as its managing director on a voluntary basis with great passion and joy. This work has not only enriched the lives of countless children and young people in a positive and lasting way, but has also fulfilled my own life. This experience has encouraged me to take another step and place Moving Child on the foundation of an eternal foundation.

I founded the Moving Child Foundation on June 11, 2025, in Munich, ensuring a further sustainable contribution to the future of many children and young people. The Moving Child Foundation provides funding and cooperates with projects so that children can develop trust with dignity, unfold their abilities, and live their full potential in a self-determined way.

Accompanying people on their journey has become my calling. I am deeply grateful for this, and I would also like to thank my ancestors for the financial resources that enable me to support this journey. I see financial resources not only as capital, but as a force that can be channeled to create security, promote potential, and manifest a compassionate world for children.

My heartfelt wish is that the Moving Child Foundation reaches many children in challenging life situations and opens up paths to a hopeful and self-determined future for them.

Susann Dideban-Hermann

“For me, children and young people are the future. My motivation is to offer them, who are at the beginning of their lives, a good or better start and foundation.“

Susann Dideban-Hermann, born July 8, 1962, in Tehran, Iran.

After a very happy childhood in Iran, where I was able to live in a German-Iranian cultural environment, I moved to Hamburg with my parents in 1979 due to the revolution. I lived in northern Germany for 20 years, where I completed my high school diploma, university studies, and vocational training.

In 1999, I moved with my husband and son to Freising (Upper Bavaria), where we still live today.

Professionally, I have developed over the years as a physiotherapist, alternative practitioner, and teacher of craniosacral therapy.

I am very committed to community involvement, and was a member of the parents’ council throughout my son’s kindergarten and school years.

After spending two years in France and realizing how difficult it can be to settle into a new culture and unfamiliar systems (school, healthcare, etc.), I decided that when I returned to Germany, I would help other people who are new to our country to integrate.

That’s how I came across the Mibikids e. V (Migration, Education, Children) association, which offers German courses for children aged 4-10 in small groups. I have now been involved here for around 12 years in various roles (group leader, board member, location coordinator).

The approach of helping through working with children, which is also the focus of the Moving Child Foundation, is very much in line with my ideals. A good and healthy childhood is the basis for all development.

That’s why I’m delighted to be able to contribute my energy and ideas to the Moving Child Foundation.

Executive Board

Gertraud Leimstättner

Chairwoman

„Due to unfavorable living conditions, children and young people are often exposed to changes that shake them and make them feel deeply insecure. It is important to me to support them during these challenging times in their lives so that they can regain their ability to act and thus have a choice.“

Gertraud Leimstättner, born November 22, 1958, in Burgenland, Austria.

Even as a child, I learned that volunteering is a valuable part of life. A quote from Shirley Chisholm has stayed with me ever since: “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”

My mother lived by this guiding principle. As a village schoolteacher, she would gather students around our kitchen table as needed, whose parents did not have the time, resources, or opportunities to support them in their learning. She patiently helped them fill in the gaps in their knowledge and opened up educational opportunities for some of them that their parents had not planned for.

This taught me early on how valuable and natural it is to stand up for others. Even as a teenager, I was committed to equal opportunities and student rights. In my first job as a special needs kindergarten teacher, I did pioneering work in the field of inclusion: together with a dedicated team, I developed an educational concept at a Berlin daycare center that was later adopted citywide. Finally, children with disabilities and children from underprivileged backgrounds could also receive educational support in regular groups—a significant step toward natural, equal coexistence—an enormous enrichment for everyone.

Later, my path led me to naturopathy, with a focus on children’s and women’s health. Additional training in systemic family therapy, trauma counseling, Feldenkrais, and craniosacral therapy broadened my understanding of holistic development processes.

Training as a crisis, hospice, and grief counselor further deepened my inner attitude and my work with children and parents.

Moving Child gGmbH opened up another avenue for this important work: offering support and encouragement to children whose circumstances prevent them from reaching their potential.

After 15 years of intensive work at Moving Child, it is now time for a new step:

The Eternity Foundation.

May this foundation support children in difficult circumstances and give them the space to develop in a strengthened and accompanied manner.

Carla Kronester

Every young person has the right to support for their development and to an upbringing that fosters a sense of personal responsibility and the ability to function in society.
(German law: Section 1 of Book Eight of the Social Code, Child and Youth Welfare Act)

Born in 1961 in the Rheingau region of Hesse, I spent my childhood there and completed my secondary education at St. Ursula Gymnasium in Geisenheim. After training as a legal and notary assistant and working for several years as an office manager, my career path eventually led me to Munich in 1986. Here, I have been working as a freelance professional—sometimes for large law and corporate firms—to this day, acquiring extensive practical skills in organization, team building, and efficient administrative work.

Since the birth of my two daughters, I have also been actively involved in volunteer work in our parish without interruption since 1991 (including the parents’ council, family group, youth ministry, and serving as chair of the parish council and deanery council). Through this work, I have experienced firsthand how important it is to support children and young people as they grow and develop.

In my personal life, I have dedicated myself to dance. In addition to classical partner and formation dance, I am increasingly finding joy in spiritual dance and have completed training in Meditative Circle Dance at the Academy for Movement and Consciousness/Nanni Kloke (NL). Through this, I have learned that dance, dance theater, and dance expression can have an enormously positive impact, particularly on traumatized young people.

I would like to contribute the experience I have gained through my professional and volunteer work to the Moving Child Foundation, because there is nothing more important or honorable than ensuring that all children have a happy childhood and equal opportunities for personal development.