Dr. Mahr is a medical doctor, psychoanalyst, and a specialist in psychosomatic medicine, applied psychotherapy and systems therapy.
He is a training and teaching psychoanalyst in the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPG). Additional training in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, Gestalt, body and music therapy and holotropic breathing (Grof).
Dr. Mahr has been practicing and developing systemic constellation work (scw) since 1990 and is the president of the Institute for Systemic Constellations and Integral Solutions in Wuerzburg, Germany.
From 2002 - 2004 he was president of the international Germany based constellations association (IAG). He is an international teacher of scw and the founder (2002) and president of the International Political Constellations Association (iPCA).
Currently Dr. Mahr is involved in a pilot project in Rwanda researching the possibilities of supporting and healing post-traumatic societies through constellation work.
Since 2001 together with his wife Brigitta Dr. Mahr is the organizer of international conferences in the series “Fields of Conflict – Fields of Wisdom.. Among the themes of the conferences have been “Collective Wisdom” or “Identities”, and the 2011 conference will be dedicated to “Conflict Transformation and Mysticism”.In addition to a number of articles in the international constellation journal “The Knowing Field”.
Dr. Mahr has edited the book “Fields of Conflict – Fields of Wisdom. Systemic Constellations in Peace and Reconciliation Work” (2003, in German).