Leon Jonas · 27 · Germany
Leon Jonas is a social worker and trained Gestalt therapist from Germany. He is curious about people — about what sits behind a first impression — and he is currently traveling the world while building Worth a Novel.
Host & founder
After a Bachelor in Social Work, Leon spent years in residential child and youth care in Switzerland — including as a social pedagogue in a residential group and as deputy team lead. Relationship work, crisis, everyday accompaniment, parents, teams: the direct work with people became part of who he is.
A multi-year Gestalt training deepened how he meets people: contact, awareness, emotions, needs, boundaries, responsibility, presence. Not as labels — as lived experience in the moment.
Experiential education showed him how nature, challenge, and reflection can open development. Zen and mindfulness sharpened a quieter skill: being present with himself and with others — without turning it into religion or branding.
Trauma-informed sensitivity shaped a simple principle: behaviour has a history. Combined with travel and intercultural encounter, that curiosity became a project: listen, ask, and collect the chapters strangers rarely get to share.
Accompanying people and understanding social context.
Experience → reflect → understand → grow.
Exploring contact, awareness, and relationship.
Understanding how overwhelming experience can shape relationships, trust, and self — without claiming to be a clinical trauma therapist.
Be present. Really here — with yourself and with others.
On a flexible 1–2 year journey through the Americas, Leon is not collecting destinations. He is collecting conversations — as observer, conversation partner, questioner, traveler, learner.