Background
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.
I draw on study across embodied inquiry, philosophy, crossdisciplinary science, contemplative practice, and psychology, including the training and ongoing practice below.
Aletheia Unfoldment Method
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. A detailed exploration of the method, as well as the Neuroscientific foundations is available in this white paper.
I am also Home Group host for Aletheia's Level 1 cohort.
Effortless Mindfulness
Certified facilitator in Effortless Mindfulness, an approach developed by Loch Kelly combining Buddhist meditation practices from the Dzogchen and Mahamudra traditions with parts-based psychology grounded in Internal Family Systems.
Reschooling Spiral
A year-long practice ground facilitation, grief work, and unlearning inhereted patterns of power.
Academic study
MSc in Creative Intelligence & Technology, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science.
BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a major in Ecology, University of Amsterdam.
I also teach and co-lead the Collective Futures MSc programme at the University of Amsterdam.
