About me

If you read My Vision and What matters you will already know a lot about me. Besides that you can look up the facts of my life below.
And there is still more to tell about my life and my passion.

I grew up as the eldest daughter in a family with 5 children in a little village. The village was my world and I lived according to that. Besides that one teacher inspired me to go to university, I stayed in this world and married and got 3 sons: everything fine, everything OK. My husband and I were engaged in fair trade shops and in the peace movement.
But a little voice in my head told me: "Now it is my turn!" and I started on what would become a life long learning journey. Feminism, inner growth, shamanism, emotional bodywork, druïdism, contextual therapy, spirituality, 5 Rhythms dance, Systemic Constellations ... and the journey goes on: Spiral Dynamics, Presencing, Collective Wisdom, Brian Swimme, Evolutionary Leadership.
My sons became adults, searching and finding their own lifepath and their partners. After a divorce and another 10-year relationship I lived happily for 9 years on my own. It gave me the time to ground in myself and find happiness within.

The golden thread unfolding through all these years could be called 'taking initiative to form new ways of cooperation'. Although not in the business world, but in the area of personal development and social profit, it shows my life-long search for integrating leadership and community. A special note of gratitude goes to my sisters in De Vijfster (later Vierster). Through an intensive and wonderful process of being together for 6 years, we developed a deep friendship and a new kind of knowledge. The knowledge of creating the group's spirit and acting out of that collective field. This intensive and wonderful process moved then to Women Moving the Edge, a truelly transforming journey, which is slowly resulting in video's, Articles and a book (to come).

Studies

• '73-'79: KULeuven, Lic.(Master) in Clinical Psychology
  * '89-'93: Trainer/therapist in Emotional Bodywork; School for Body and Soul, Holland
  * '02-'04: Organisational and Structural Constellations, Belgium
  * '05-'06: Deep Change, Belgium
  * 'O6-'07: Organisational Constellations: Community of Learning, Practice and Innovation, Nowhere Foundation, England

Since '83 countless trainings, workshops, seminars on:

• self-reflection
  * System therapy
  * Group Dynamics
  * Women's topics
  * Sexuality
  * Supervision
  * Contextual Therapy
  * Druïdism
  * Shamanism
  * Native American Teachings
  * Core Qualities
  * Meditation
  * Dance

Professional Experience

• '78-'85: short term contracts in Social and Training work
  * '86-'91: full-time coordinator YWCA-Antwerp
  * '91-'93: half-time coordinator ANJA: Network of Child and Youth Migrant Work in Antwerp
  * '91 : half-time self-employed psychotherapist
  * '92 : initiator and director of vzw Lijf en Leven: a collaboration of different body-oriented psychotherapists
  * '96-current: full-time self-employed psychotherapist with specialisation in body-oriented approach
  * '02-current: working as coach, supervisor and trainer
  * '03-current: facilitator of Systemic Constellations
  * '06-current: facilitator/host of change processes, including collective intelligence of the whole system

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