Creating time and space where people listen open-heartedly and speak courageously, where we can honestly share our view on reality and shift our perspectives so new possibilities can emerge and shape a different future, is what I love to do. 

Our collective and complex challenges of today demand change at the collective level. The situation we find ourselves in today is both highly systemic and deeply personal. This means that each of us — as an individual and as part of the system — has influence in everything by the way we think, talk and do. We cannot solve these problems in isolation. 

Through Perspectivity, I guide organisations and groups in navigating societal and sustainable just transitions in the “times in between” in which we find ourselves today. Here diverse worldviews and narratives meet, and sometimes clash. When we can get to the point to appreciate our differences, we can grow our wisdom: our ability to see things from a different perspective. I like to bring reflection and dialogue together with meaningful action, so concrete movement in the outside world can become contagious and more people feel invited to be part of it. 

“Times are urgent, so let us slow down.
Slowing down is not about getting answers, it is about questioning our questions”.
(Bayo Akomolafe)

My academic background is Human Geography and International Development Studies, and I have always been deeply motivated to understand how people live, work and relate together. I do not see people separate from ‘the rest of nature’. I notice that in our daily life we often put human beings central, or above other species. I am fascinated by how we are entangled and part of the ecology of everything on this planet, and how we can move towards new and ancient ways of being, thinking, learning and doing so more people and beings can thrive. 

This perspective and my curiosity has brought me to many places in the world, living and working several years in Mali, Benin and Indonesia. My international experience has taught me to work from multiple perspectives and expand and constantly evolve my own views. 

In my facilitation practice I draw on knowledge, inspiration and experience in: creative leadership, international collaboration, systems dynamics and constellations, Active hope and The Work That Reconnects of Joanna Macy, Deep Ecology, Deep Democracy, Voice Dialogue and Citizen Assemblies. Lewis Deep Democracy has equipped me with valuable tools for going deeper with groups, finding common ground, exploring differences and co-creating innovative, inclusive decisions. 

Since I moved back to my mothercountry with my husband and two daughters, we live at the edge of the forest at the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. What I love to do is being active in nature – from high in the mountains to beneath the surface of the sea – walking, mountain biking, running, or rowing. And otherwise you find me immersed in a book, reading with my daughters or diving in today’s complexity. 

Expertise

• Deep Democracy
• Sustainability, Regeneration & Hidden Impact – in general and in the Finance sector specifically
• Intercultural collaboration
• Ecological grief
• Citizen Assemblies

Examples of what I do