Meeting our time with presence, discernment, and care

Through embodied inquiry, contemplative practice, and precise discernment, I help people stay close enough to their experience to sense what's actually happening; and to learn to think and act from there. I work this way with individuals and with groups carrying questions that are personal as much as political.

What often emerges is that the places where we feel most stuck are not just some obstacle to get past, but where something essential has been waiting.

Crown shyness: tree canopy seen from below, branches reaching toward light without touching

One-to-one sessions

I work with people who sense there is more available to them than their current way of being allows. We stay close to how you're actually living what you're going through, integrating the body, thinking and emotions, until patterns that have long felt fixed begin to loosen.

Group facilitation

Work with groups in settings where the political and the personal aren't really separable. A lot of it runs through art and the body, with attention to how power moves through ecological and economic realities, and who ends up carrying the weight of it.

Learning & research design

Curricula, workshops, and research processes for universities and organisations, bringing systems thinking together with embodied, dialogical practice, so people can make grounded decisions in ambiguous, value-laden situations.

Artistic practice

Sound, improvisation, and embodied listening as ongoing forms of inquiry.

Background

What drew me into this work was my own experience of how much shifts when we learn to listen to the body's wisdom and stay with what's actually happening rather than managing it 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. The training and ongoing practice below is where much of it lives.

Aletheia Unfoldment Method

Completed training in Levels 1–2, and am currently in Level 3 of the Aletheia Unfoldment Method, originated by Steve March. The approach integrates parts-oriented dialogue from Internal Family Systems, felt-sense exploration in the tradition of Eugene Gendlin, and presence-based inquiry informed by A. H. Almaas' Ridhwan school. What I find most powerful about this work is how it holds psychological precision and contemplative depth as one movement, allowing transformation that is both deeply grounded and genuinely lasting. A detailed exploration of the method is available in this paper.

I am also Home Group host for Aletheia's Level 1 cohort, where I hold space for groups to deepen the program's learning together, alongside the core training.

Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding

Mentored by Prof. Donata Schoeller through the Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding training program, deepening an orientation toward felt-sense inquiry and philosophical precision.

I'm also co-organiser and co-facilitator of ECTU's community of practice for alumni, a space that keeps the practice alive and evolving past the end of the course.

Effortless Mindfulness

Certified facilitator in Effortless Mindfulness (Levels 1–3), 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 in decolonial work, emergent strategy, grief work, and embodied facilitation.

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.