Ask Andy Dittrich about his CV and the first thing you get is a number. Twenty-five. That is how many years he has worked in learning and development, building learning formats, leadership programmes and education architectures in thirty countries, from Zurich to Singapore, from Boston to Rio de Janeiro. He holds an Executive MBA from the University of Zurich and Boston University, an award from Harvard Business School Publishing that he received eight years in a row, and he has written a book: GATE 2-2. Aufbruch ins Leben.
In this work he made an observation that would not let go of him. Most problems, he says, do not resolve in the head. He has seen them in the boardroom, at the conference bar, in the gym of a four-star hotel in Sydney. People who had done everything right and still could not sleep. He began to ask a different question. Not: what is the problem. But: where does it sit right now.
The method
Over two years, this question became FIVE MOVES, a five-part sequence guided in a single session. It works with locating feelings and blockages in the body, not with analysing them. It does without retraumatisation, without childhood archives, without lists of limiting beliefs. Its theoretical references are memory reconsolidation and polyvagal theory. Its practical test is repeatability.
Around one thousand people have been through the method so far. More than forty certified Guides pass it on today in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. Dittrich insists that no one has to come back to him to hold on to what changed in the session.
"You do not become a healer. Not a guru. And that is exactly the art of it." Andy Dittrich
One method, one session flow
FIVE MOVES is passed on the same way everywhere. All Guides go through the same training: the Online Academy with a binding session flow, plus simulations in the app. The practice days on site are run by the certified trainers, in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. Dittrich builds the learning architecture behind it. That way the method stays the same, no matter who teaches it.
For themed courses, the subject depth comes from the trainers. This is how the digital course Female Intimacy (German original: Lebendige Weiblichkeit) came about, published at fivemoves.org/en/female-intimacy. Trainer Sévérine Bächtold-Sidler, who has run live courses on the method in her practice in Sursee for years, is responsible for all its content. Dittrich built the course architecture.
About the person
Andy Dittrich lives in Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau. His company, DITTRICH & PARTNERS GmbH, founded in 2012, is the legal entity behind FIVE MOVES. He rarely stands in the front row of his own brand. The website is not an Andy Dittrich show but a method that can explain itself without him having to do it. That is intentional.
"You do not have to go through the pain. There is another way." Andy Dittrich
Availability for interviews
Andy Dittrich is available for interviews on the following topics: the FIVE MOVES method, learning and development, building body-based learning architectures, memory reconsolidation in practice, positioning towards the wellness and coaching market. For the content of individual courses we are happy to put you in touch with the respective trainer. On request, FIVE MOVES also arranges contact with participants who want to talk about their experience. Written consent is in place in each case.