Professional Biography

The Impact of Small Acts

Lili’s first childhood drawing was a butterfly. Since then, butterflies have accompanied her journey as enduring symbols of fragility, transformation, and renewal. The motif resurfaced in pivotal moments of her professional path: most strikingly in her architectural diploma project, the Butterfly House, which already expressed the integrative perspective that would later shape her work.

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Like the proverbial “butterfly effect,” these small beginnings signaled the unfolding of a systemic orientation—where even the subtlest embodied acts can ripple outward into profound transformation. For her, professional presence is not about grand gestures, but about subtle, sustained attunement—moment to moment, encounter to encounter.

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The transformative power of a butterfly’s wingbeat may happen in a therapy room, in a leadership dialogue, or even in the quiet pause of a tram stop. These silent and often invisible movements frequently carry more lasting impact than grand and noisy interventions. This conviction—that change grows from quiet presence and embodied acts—remains central to her somato-systemic practice today.

Professional Foundations

After graduating as an architect, her progressive and integrative thinking drew the attention of an international star-architect firm, where she joined as a designer. Over six years, she created nearly 120 design strategy, developing a systemic perspective that understood the city as a living system. Her work engaged with urban fabrics and community contexts, where regeneration meant more than the design of buildings.

Architecture, in her approach, became a catalyst for systemic change—an intervention capable of influencing how individuals, communities, environments, economies, and leadership structures interrelate. In this sense, regeneration referred to creating the conditions for urban and ecological subsystems to reorganize and sustain themselves.

From Systemic to Somatic

The global financial crisis of 2008–2009 shook the architectural profession worldwide. The collapse of commissions deeply affected the international firm where she worked, and years of overwork pushed her beyond her limits. For her, this rupture made it impossible to see regeneration only as a systemic issue. It also had to be lived as an embodied process.

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Her own renewal began through biosystemic somato-psychotherapy, a body-oriented systemic approach that integrates nervous system regulation with relational dynamics. Over six years of personal therapy, she not only recovered from burnout but also deepened her systemic orientation by grounding it in lived, embodied experience. By the time she formally entered professional training, her body already carried this biosystemic practice as lived knowledge.

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During this period, she also experimented with expressive gesture work—initially as a personal practice, later as an artistic exploration, and eventually as a methodological tool. Today, this dimension is part of her mental health consulting, enriching her systemic-somatic approach with creative and expressive pathways.

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From 2010 onward, she was invited into organizational transformation and business concept development, as companies sought fresh perspectives from creative professionals in the aftermath of the crisis. For nearly a decade, she worked as a systemic consultant, introducing systemic-somatic perspectives into leadership and organizational change.

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In 2018 she made a conscious decision to step out of the corporate sphere. Political pressures and ideological constraints in the domestic business environment made it clear that integrity required a new direction. This threshold marked the beginning of her dedicated systemic-somatic practice—bringing back progressive methodologies she had first encountered in international contexts, and embedding them into her private practice and methodological development.

Methodological Integration

After a six-year therapeutic process, she formally trained in biosystemic somatic methodologies in 2016, studying with Maurizio Stuppigia and Rita Fiumara-Liss, pioneers in the field. During this training, her natural strength in mesodermic work was identified as a defining competence. In somatic psychology, mesodermic work refers to mobilizing blocked actions, resolving impasse, and restoring the natural momentum of the body. Rather than focusing on analytic interpretation, it emphasizes activating embodied change—helping systems shift the gear and regain flow.

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This activating orientation made it clear that her professional path aligned less with clinical psychology and more with mental health counseling. In Hungary, the role of a mental health professional is defined as the protection of mind' health, the strengthening of healthy relationships, and the education of well-being. This framework is forward-looking and development-oriented, and it resonated strongly with her activating character. Within this orientation, she integrated behavioral activation, consolidating change through embodied and repeatable action.

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From this synthesis emerged the Systemic Activation Practice: an integrative methodology combining systems thinking, somatic psychology, and activation-based approaches. The practice supports individuals and groups in moving beyond impasse, initiating transformation, and sustaining systemic change through small, embodied steps that ripple into larger living systems.

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Today, her somatic and body-oriented work weaves together sensorimotor techniques, expressive movement, and drawing-based practices. True to her “in-between” character, she continues to work at thresholds—just as earlier in architecture and business consulting, she now integrates diverse modalities to foster transformation across personal, organizational, and systemic scales.

Capabilities and Stance

Her trajectory is also shaped by her 2E (twice-exceptional) profile and her experience as neurodivergent. In progressive contexts, difference is often recognized as a potential and a source of unique perspectives, while in more homogeneous societies it can lead to marginalization. Navigating this tension became a significant process of integration, and it continues to inform her stance. She now supports other neurodivergent individuals in learning to view from the margins positively and to live fuller lives even in environments that may not always be favorable to them.

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Research on 2E profiles shows that the combination of high cognitive capacity and neurodivergent perception often gives rise to a distinctive form of creative intelligence. This manifests in advanced problem-solving, divergent thinking, and the ability to generate novel connections across domains. For her, this configuration has supported the capacity to recognize and mobilize systemic patterns in ways that foster transformation.

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This trajectory also deepened her orientation toward the liminal space: the threshold zones where systems shift, identities are renegotiated, and new possibilities emerge. Being twice-exceptional and neurodivergent is inseparable from this liminal stance—it is both a challenge and a vantage point from which to perceive and activate systemic transformation.

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These capacities are held within what she calls integrated presence: a grounded orientation that provides containment in turbulence while at the same time offering a clear inner compass to guide transformation. This is not a static state, but an embodied stance: the ability to remain steady even amid large waves, holding space for both disruption and renewal.

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She first applied this competence in large-scale business transformations, where containing complexity while guiding forward motion was essential. Later she recognized its centrality in somato-systemic practice, where the work of holding and activating is inseparable. Today, she also mentors practitioners in cultivating integrated presence, helping them strengthen both their containing and activating capacities in order to accompany others through impasse and into transformation.

Ethos and Current Focus

The COVID-19 pandemic reinforced a central principle: life comes first. Since then, her practice has emphasized the “good enough life”. Rather than striving for perfection, she highlights that regeneration arises from embodied sufficiency, resilience, and sustainable balance.

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Today, her focus is on regenerative lifestyle design: exploring how individuals and communities can meet the grand challenges of our time—climate disruption, social fragmentation, economic instability, and political turbulence—through practices that sustain life. She believes that real resilience lies not in abstract global solutions but in the strength of smaller communities, such as villages, and in the environmental and cultural knowledge embedded in these local contexts.

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For her, this moment is also a time of personal experimentation. The way we have lived until now is no longer sustainable, yet the new ways are not fully known. Each person, each community is called to discover their own pathways to create a safer, more joyful, and more meaningful future. Regenerative design, in this sense, extends far beyond architecture: it is about shaping life itself as part of a larger living fabric. Just as she once approached the city as an organism, she now sees her own life and practice as woven into broader ecological, cultural, and communal tissues.

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This orientation also requires what she calls functional resistance: the capacity to resist the madness of the world not through withdrawal, but through reconnecting to essentials, discerning what is vital, and living accordingly. Here her ethos converges: regenerative design is no longer only a professional framework but a lived commitment. Personally, this vision is embodied in her earthen-house project—a living laboratory where sustainability, embodiment, and systemic awareness converge in the rhythms of everyday life.

At present, she embodies the good enough life not by chasing constant professional expansion or the pressures of social media, but by deepening what is already present in her practice. She deliberately limits screen time to protect her health and to remain rooted in nature, preferring activities that sustain both body and mind. She often dictates her academic writing and uses artificial intelligence as a tool to accelerate technical processes such as research and editing, reserving her energy for reflection and presence. Rather than pursuing endless new credentials, she chooses to live from the conviction that what is here can already be enough—a stance that feels both regenerative and necessary in a world facing far greater challenges.