I offer one-to-one sessions as a space to orient when life feels unclear, pressured, or stuck, and to reconnect with the resourcefulness needed to move forward. 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. The aim is not to fix experience, but to allow a more direct and trustworthy way of sensing what is needed to emerge. This work is grounded in the Aletheia Unfoldment Method, a non-pathologising, presence-based approach informed by systems thinking. It integrates embodied inquiry, felt-sense exploration in the tradition of Eugene Gendlin, and parts-oriented dialogue based on Internal Family Systems, helping what is implicit become clear, articulable, and actionable. By meeting experience in this way, patterns that have long felt fixed begin to loosen, allowing new possibilities for response to take shape. For a fuller overview of my background and influences, see “Background & Training.” 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 would be supportive.

I work with universities and organisations to design learning and research environments that help people orient toward what truly matters and make responsible moves amid ambiguity and values in tension. 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.

My work is shaped by study across contemplative practice, embodied inquiry, philosophy and crossdisciplinary research. A central foundation is training in the Aletheia Unfoldment Method (Levels 1–2). I am also certified in Effortless Mindfulness (Levels 1–3), an approach developed by Loch Kelly that explores direct access to awareness through contemplative practice in dialogue with parts-based psychology. Alongside this, I have been mentored by Prof. Donata Schoeller through Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding, which deepened my orientation toward felt-sense inquiry, philosophical precision, and dialogical sense-making in high-complexity contexts. I hold an MSc in Creative Intelligence & Technology from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (cum laude), and a BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a major in Ecology from the University of Amsterdam. Alongside formal training, I maintain an ongoing personal practice in meditation and contemplative inquiry. These strands are not applied as a set of techniques. They inform a way of working that values careful attention, relational presence, and responses grounded in a fuller view of the situation.