Nijmegen 1968, police officer, project and program manager, consultant, change management expert, and poet: a brief overview.
My career has led me through the worlds of public order and safety, consultancy, and ICT within environments with a high level of confidentiality, as well as the healthcare sector. Two extremes where I have worked with passion and great pleasure on wonderful assignments and results, and met remarkable people.
During my career, I was trained as a change management expert at the Pulsar Academy. During this training, I discovered thematic parallels between Michaël Derkse’s Pulsar Vision and Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way. This ultimately proved to be very valuable to me in dealing with PTSD and moral injury.
During the period I worked as a consultant, I noticed that I started seeing myself less and less as an advisor.
An advisor tells someone what to do.
I work more as an “inviseur”: someone who helps make visible what is already present but is not yet seen. Not offering solutions, but allowing insight to emerge, so that change from within becomes possible.
On this website, I write about PTSD, moral injury, recovery, and the art of living, drawing on a combination of personal experience, professional background, and studies of, among others, Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and the Pulsar Vision. My interest lies primarily in the connection between the body, meaning-making, and awareness in recovery processes.
Additionally, I am a member of The Guild of Millers and regularly operate the Oukoper Mill in Nieuwer ter Aa.
For those who want to know more about my professional life or follow my work, I can be found on LinkedIn.
I can only follow the paths of the heart, every path of the heart. Along that path I travel, and the only real challenge is to follow the path to the end. Along the path of the heart I look around and around, breathless. - Don Juan