​Coaching & Meditation

I offer 1-on-1 coaching to help people release inner impediments and meet life with greater presence, authenticity and aliveness.

My work is grounded in the Aletheia Unfoldment Method – a non-pathologising, trauma-sensitive approach that combines parts work (drawing on Internal Family Systems), somatic work (informed by Wilhelm Reich), process work (based on Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing), and presence-based inquiry (in the tradition of A. H. Almaas’s Ridwan School). You can read more about the method and its neuroscientific foundations in this paper by its originator, Steve March.

I’m also training to become a certified Effortless Mindfulness facilitator with Loch Kelly (completion expected in December 2025). This approach combines Internal Family Systems with nondual meditation practices, drawing on Loch's contemporary interpretations of Vajrayana Buddhism. It offers a direct and intuitive way to access Presence, or Self. For more on how Effortless Mindfulness and IFS complement each other, see this conversation between Richard Schwartz and Loch Kelly.

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Alongside this, my approach is guided by six years of meditation practice, as well as experience from other training, retreats and theoretical study.

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Academia & Education

I work part-time as a teacher, co-lead, and applied researcher in the Collective Futures MSc program at the University of Amsterdam. I co-initiated and co-designed the program, which brings together students, researchers and social initiatives in transdisciplinary projects addressing environmental, social, and political issues. My past collaborations have focused on topics such as climate emotions, urban soundscapes, and democratic resilience.

 

Alongside this, I’m developing new classroom practices that invite students and educators to collectively grapple with the crises of our time. These initiatives explore how shared processing of existential feelings can open space for meaning, resilience, and transformation. This work is supported by UvA's Fair, Resilient & Inclusive Societies community and guided through mentorship by Prof. Donata Schoeller and Heinke Deloch, as part of the Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding program.

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Teaching continues to be a deep source of learning and inspiration. I see student group projects not just as educational tools, but as living experiments for embodied and collective transformation, where reflexive practices meet the urgent tensions of our time.

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Contemplative Activism

I contribute in an advisory role to the academic branch of the Climate Courage Schools campaign team – an initiative by UK-based Climate Majority Project, rooted in principles of 'contemplative activism'.

 

In collaboration with Caroline Lucas (former UK Green Party MP and Member of the European Parliament), the Climate Psychology Alliance, the Mindfulness Initiative, ClimatEdPsych and others, we're growing a broad coalition of educators, academics, unions, campaigners, and parents to call for an education system that prepares young people for a time of rapid change. This means supporting emotional resilience, systems thinking, collaboration, and connection to nature and one another.

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Improvisational Arts

I’m part of Shock Forest Group, a decentralized, sonic art+research collective. We engage in residencies and community practices that explore radical presence, embodied listening, and mutual aid efforts. These creative spaces allow for experimental approaches to relationality, sense-making, and cultural repair.

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Most of my work in the arts nowadays happens as part of this group. For an overview of my past work in sound art and interactive installations, see.

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In my free time, I enjoy making music and practicing improvisational dance.

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Other Training, Retreats and Influences

• Retreat – Unfolding Secure Attachment through Nondual Presence - by Steve March and Donna Chang

• Retreat – Plum Village, France

• Retreat – Plum Village sangha in The Netherlands

• Residency – Science and Interbeing - Life Itself, France

• Residency – Mahler & Lewitt studios - Spoleto, Italy (with Shock Forest Group)

• Workshop series collective research and improvisation, with Shock Forest Group - Van Abbemuseum (2023). Link.

• Training – Values- and Meaning-Based Design – School for Social Design

• Training – Microsolidarity Community Building Practice Program (Intermediate)

• Training – Foundations of Humanistic Psychology by Scott Barry Kaufmann

• Joanna Macy's The Work that Reconnects

• Bonnitta Roy's Pop-Up School

• Iain Mcgilchrist's The Matter with Things & The Master and his Emissary

• Gabor Maté's work on trauma and ADHD

• Vanessa Machado de Oliveira's work on Depth Education and Hospicing Modernity

• Riane Eisler's work on partnership systems and cultural transformation

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