Personal development

My interest in the paths I am exploring comes from my own life history and the work I’ve done to make those experiences useful and meaningful. In my attempts to take it easy and have a quiet life, I was being repeatedly disturbed by inner experiences that I didn’t understand and which used a lot of my energy. Eventually, I came across Process Work (or Process-oriented Psychology), a method, practice and lifestyle, which taught me that instead of trying to get rid of disturbances, I could make room for them as potentially meaningful experiences and forces. After a lot of tackling, questioning and challenging this idea, I came to the conclusion that tension, conflict and relationship problems do not happen for us to simply get rid of them, but that they contain inner solutions and directions and arise in order to wake us up. They lead us to our basic directions and the essence of our natures, as individuals, communities and organizations. Looking at fields of tension in this way always implies the question: What is trying to happen here? What is emerging? These are fundamentally different questions than: What’s wrong here? or How can that be fixed?

Process Work is the operational system behind all the work I do. If you want to know more about this method go here. My curriculum vitae can be found here.