Our group leaders come from all over the world and bring a huge variety of talents to our meetups. Here’s a little introduction to the members of our amazing group leading team!

Carl is an Irish comedian who works as a performer, improv coach, comedy writer, camp counsellor, web developer and dungeon master. A native English speaker, Carl speaks Spanish and French poorly, German even more poorly, and has recently begun to reconnect with his roots through Irish language meetups.

A storyteller first and foremost, Carl loves nothing more than crafting tales of sword and sorcery with children of all ages at the gaming table.

Dave is from the UK and has been living in Berlin with his German wife for around 5 years. He has a CELTA certification and several decades experience working with children and young people. Dave runs the teenagers Dungeons and Dragons group.

Estrella is from the US and has been living in Berlin for almost 10 years. She speaks English and Spanish natively and slowly (very slowly) learning German 🙂 She was formerly an English educator at a bilingual kindergarten for 6 years and is a certified kids yoga teacher. She offers fun and balanced yoga classes to the toddlers and preschoolers, and leads creative workshops with the school kids.

Geoff is an American artist and designer who has been living together with his wife and 9 year old son in Berlin for 5 years. He speaks English natively, German decently, and Cantonese badly. He has a Masters of Visual Studies from SUNY-Buffalo and teaches comics making for the school kids.

Josefina is a curious architect, originally from Argentina, who perfected her English while getting her master’s degree in Chicago. In addition to Argentina, Germany, and the USA, she’s lived in Denmark, Brazil, and Colombia. She moved to Berlin in 2022 and works as a freelance architect at an office in Neukölln.

Her interest in engaging with different people has led her to leverage her professional skills in various ways to teach and learn, from nonprofit work at emergency settlements to teaching at the university and nowadays working for an office that promotes participatory processes and communal uses of the public space. At Saturday Club, she promotes architectural spatial learning and drawing, and hopes to raise questions of how we live and dream to live.

Katie is from the US, educated in Spain and is now a freelance camp counselor for English camps in Germany. She speaks fluent English and Spanish. She has worked with kids for 7 years now and offers activities that promote fluency and creativity with the kids at Saturday Club.

Kit is an English Teacher who has just read Carl’s profile – ‘improv comedian and comedy writer’ – and has realised that writing this profile to appeal to kids is already a lost battle.

Kit is a native English speaker from Liverpool, England, and has been teaching English in Berlin since 2019. Kit is a CertTESOL- and FTBE-qualified teacher who balances those two boring acronyms with a much more exciting one – RPGs (Role Playing Games).

Being a grammar nerd and RPG enthusiast, Kit realised one day the educational potential of these games: a school textbook might ask you to pretend you are buying a stamp; an RPG might ask you to pretend you are buying a demonically-possessed sword. Both teach the same language skills, but which would your kids (or even you) prefer?

Since then, Kit has been enthusiastically weaving stories of orcs and auxiliaries, of future victories and past participles, of grammar and glory – all without it feeling like homework.

Mayila is a French dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. She grew up in a trilingual household, and spent her childhood years between France and England.
She has been living and studying in Germany for 3 years and is now looking to combine her career in dance with her interest in education and artistic development in children.
In Saturday club she offers interactive movement-based language learning classes which fuse speaking and moving, thus developing a coordination between body and mind in a fun creative way.

Nicole is a dance|theatre artist, choreographer, teacher, and mother. She is originally from kanata (Canada) and has had the great privilege to travel internationally presenting her work throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, and the Middle East. Nicole has been sharing space with tiny humans for over 25 years and strives to bring skill, joy and curiosity into every studio. She continues to pursue projects on the international level as she believes in the collective humanity born from cultural exchange.