Paradox Praxis

About

Laura Cincera

My path has not been a straight line. It has run through leadership, the body, philosophy and art, and I now work where they meet.

  1. Google

    Nine years at Google, designing leadership and social impact programs across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Programs that reached more than 13 million people and earned me a place on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.

  2. Mindfulness and leadership

    Teaching mindfulness and emotional intelligence to leaders around the world as a certified teacher of Search Inside Yourself, the program born at Google.

  3. Somatic practice

    Internal Family Systems, Hakomi and Neurosomatic Trauma Integration, learning to listen to what the body knows before the mind can name it.

  4. Philosophy and theory

    Philosophy of mind at Oxford, critical theory at the University of the Arts London, asking what consciousness is and what art can do.

  5. Contemplative practice

    Ceremony, ritual and a long study of contemplative traditions, learning to meet what cannot be explained with reverence.

  6. Artistic practice

    Artistic research in performance, ritual and somatic poetics, in dance studios, residencies, forests, riverbanks and on stages. It taught me that life itself can be practiced as art. Explore my artistic research →

Together

For a long time, these fields seemed far apart: boardrooms and retreats, research and performance. Today, I see one practice.

What I offer grows from all of it: the rigor of evidence-based leadership work, the depth of somatic and parts-based practice, the reverence of ritual and the wildness of art and ecology.

Courses and certificates

Coaching and leadership

  • Certified Teacher, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, via Google scholarship 2019 to 2024
  • Certified Mindfulness Facilitator, SIYLI
  • Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation 2019
  • Advanced Diploma in Executive, Leadership and Team Coaching, Academy of Executive Coaching 2018
  • PQ Coaching Program, Positive Intelligence, grant 2020

Somatic and therapeutic training

  • Internal Family Systems, Levels 1 and 2, IFS Institute 2021
  • Diploma in Neurosomatic Integration, Institut für Traumaintegration NSTI 2021
  • Hakomi
  • Gaga movement language with Ohad Naharin, with a focus on therapeutic settings 2026
  • Professional Yoga Teacher Training, RYT 200, Yoga Alliance 2017

Ecological and artistic practice

  • Ecovillage Design Education (EDE), Gaia Education 2025
  • Ceremony and ritual facilitation
  • Artistic research in performance, ritual and somatic poetics. Explore my artistic research →

Selected academic experience

  • MA studies at the Sophia Centre, UWTSD, with a focus on ecology and contemplative practice, in progress
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Philosophy of Mind, University of Oxford
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice, University of the Arts London
  • Social Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School 2015
  • Certificate in Cultural Management, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 2015
  • Design Thinking for Business Innovation, University of Virginia 2015

Recognition and impact

  • Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe
  • TEDx: An Ode to Un-learning
  • Nine years at Google EMEA in social impact and leadership development
  • Partnerships with the UN, OECD and European Investment Bank
  • WEF Global Shapers, Sandbox, European Commission delegate

Today

I care about attention, about paradox held without collapse, and about the slow, relational work that makes presence durable. I also run a contemporary wisdom school, The Museion. I live and work in Zürich.