About

What drew me into this work was my own experience of how much shifts when we learn to listen to what the body already knows about a situation, rather than managing everything from a distance. That remains the thread through everything I do.

My practice runs along two interrelated strands.

Embodied contemplative practice

The spine of my one-to-one work is the Aletheia Unfoldment Method, originated by Steve March, in which I'm currently training at Level 3. Aletheia weaves four depths of practice into a single method: parts work drawing on Internal Family Systems, somatic process work in the tradition of Gendlin's Focusing and neo-Reichian bodywork, presence work informed by the Diamond Approach, and non-dual meditation.

Rather than switching between modalities, the method moves fluidly across these depths as a situation unfolds, meeting each layer of experience on its own terms. How they're integrated, as well as the neuroscientific foundations, is laid out in Steve March's white paper, The Neuroscience of Enduring Transformation.

I am also a Home Group Host for Aletheia's Level 1 cohort.

Alongside this, I trained in Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding, mentored by Prof. Donata Schoeller, and now help run the program's community of practice for alumni. I'm a certified facilitator of Effortless Mindfulness, Loch Kelly's approach to carrying non-dual awareness into daily life. And I spent a year in the Reschooling Spiral, a practice ground in facilitation, grief work and unlearning inherited patterns of power.

Facilitation, design and other experiences

For over a decade I have been designing and teaching in academia, the past five years as co-lead of Collective Futures at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Science. As part of Resonant Bodies Collective, I organize gatherings and workshops. I'm also in the advisory board of the Climate Majority Project's Climate Courage campaign. And I've done mutual aid volunteer work at the EU border between Bosnia and Croatia.

That last experience humbled and unsettled me in ways that took months to understand. It continues to shape the way I teach and work.

Academic study

MSc in Creative Intelligence & Technology, Leiden University.

BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences, major in ecology, University of Amsterdam.