I offer one-to-one sessions as a place for orientation when life feels unclear, pressured, or stuck. Rather than analysing problems from a distance, we attend closely to how they are lived and felt. This often reveals possibilities that are not accessible through thinking alone. Instead of trying to fix experience, I offer space to reconnect with what is true in you, and allow a more direct and trustworthy way of sensing what wants to emerge. This work is grounded in the Aletheia Unfoldment Method,(https://steve-march.squarespace.com/what-is-the-unfoldment-paradigm) a non-pathologising, presence-based approach informed by systems thinking. It integrates parts-oriented dialogue based on Internal Family Systems, and embodied inquiry in the tradition of Eugene Gendlin, helping what is implicit become clear and available for action. By meeting experience in this way, patterns that have long felt fixed begin to loosen, allowing more resourceful ways of being and responding to take root. People come to this work when facing decisions, transitions, creative blocks, questions of direction, or the sense that something important is asking for attention. If this resonates, you are welcome to reach out to explore whether working together feels right. For a fuller overview of my background and influences, see “Background & Experience.”

I work with universities and organisations to design and facilitate learning and research environments that help people orient toward what truly matters and make responsible moves amid ambiguity and conflicting values. Rather than treating education as the transfer of established knowledge, these settings function as spaces for shared inquiry. Participants learn to stay with uncertainty, and draw on both careful analysis and embodied practices to make grounded decisions in the presence of social, ecological, and technological complexity. An example of this is the Collective Futures MSc program (undefined)at the University of Amsterdam, which I co-designed and co-lead. There, students, researchers, and societal partners collaborate across disciplines on issues such as democratic resilience,(undefined) climate adaptation,(undefined) and PFAS pollution,(undefined) using the project itself as a site of learning, reflection, and experimentation. My work combines methods for systems thinking, problem framing, and prioritisation, with embodied, dialogical practices that cultivate attentive presence, emotional attunement, and relational awareness. This keeps analytical reasoning connected to lived experience, enabling responses grounded in a fuller view of the whole situation. I collaborate on curriculum and program design, workshop facilitation, and research processes where learning is not only about solving problems, but about cultivating the capacities needed to act responsibly in an uncertain world. ​

Artistic practice is part of how I explore listening, perception, and relationship through shared attention. I collaborate with two collectives working at the intersection of sound, embodied inquiry, and artistic research, often through residencies and community-based experimentation. These settings work through improvisation and embodied listening, and sometimes extend into mutual aid and forms of cultural repair. They inform how I facilitate learning and research, especially where careful listening matters more than quick conclusions. For an overview of past work in sound art and interactive installations, see.(https://www.jelgerkroese.com/archive) Alongside collaborative projects, I make music and practice improvisational movement as ongoing forms of inquiry and play.