Our team

I am Barbara Hoogenboom, co-owner and trainer at the Bert Hellinger Institute the Netherlands. What I love to do is spread this beautiful, logical and practical work through trainings, workshops and coaching. The moments I realize that participants of workshops and training programs pass the systemic principles on in their own way in their families, organisations and society fill me with great joy. I am still surprised by how the systemic work supports a deep realization of how you can look at life, systems and organizations. It is such a logical principle and yet so undefined at the same time.

I studied Business Administration at Nyenrode University and the University of Oregon and graduated in 1993. After my graduation I worked as an account- and team manager and as a trainer/consultant, primarily in the financial sector of which some years abroad. After this I became a mediator and entrepreneur for a period of twelve years, in which I supported parties in many conflicts to reach a solution.

I am married, mother of three young children and I am living in Amsterdam. Furthermore I love (making) healthy and pure food, running and pilates.

My name is Nine van der Velde and I take care of the student administration at the Bert Hellinger Institute. When you call or e-mail, or register for a course or workshop, I am often the person you first have to deal with. I think it is important that people feel welcome. I am delighted to be able to talk to everyone, to inform them as clearly as possible and to ensure that all registrations run smoothly.

At the beginning of 2019 I ended up at the Bert Hellinger Institute, which I am very happy about, because it is a nice and inspiring place to work. Before this, I supervised children with multiple disabilities for around ten years. That was also a wonderful job, which has given me a treasure chest full of wonderful experiences. And then it was time for something else, and this career switch followed.

I enjoy living in a lively working-class neighborhood in the city of Groningen, but I also like to look for the space and tranquility of nature reserves in the region. I also love music, listening, singing and dancing.

I am Jan Jacob Stam. Being the founder of the Bert Hellinger Instituut the Netherlands I am more than grateful and excited about the fact that I found a field to work in that is both fascinating and fostering and that might be of great value for society.

At the institute I am the trainer of various workshops and training programs. At the moment I am gaining most of my important new insights from working with organisations and social issues. Currently I am working in more than thirty countries, my courses are either in Dutch or English.

As a former biologist I love living systems. I observe them without judgment and without aiming to improve them. I have been a teacher for over ten years at high schools, I have been a manager at a telecom company and I have been a partner in a consultancy firm. It feels like everything merged into my current job as a systemic constellator. The passion of exploring…

I still feel that excitement which I used to feel when I was a little boy playing on the beach – discovering beautiful shells from the giant ocean of knowledge.

I am Siebe Kaat and almost ten year connected to the Bert Hellinger Institute the Netherlands. Together with Anton de Kroon I am the inventor of the training ‘to intervene in a systemic way’, which I am still facilitating with a lot of enthusiasm.

I am currently an organization consultant and coach. This is way I love to give people the means to integrate systemic work in their profession, without actually doing constellations physically. The particular interest of capturing the effect of a constellation without doing the constellation resulted in the book ‘To intervene in a systemic way – perceiving the organisation as a living organism’ that I wrote together with Anton de Kroon. The book focusses on the practical translation and implementation of systemic insights.

I am interested in improving the resilience of people, teams and organisation. I believe that when people are in the right place, where they belong, they will benefit and develop themselves, the team and the organisation.

My name is Marije Boot. A northerly living in the south.

With a study in education and teacher training as a background, I now work in the educational field for over 20 years.

Since my first encounter with systemic work, I have been really touched by this way of looking. After the System Dynamics in Organizations course, I also followed the Systemic Intervention and Family Constellations for Organizational Constellators courses. In my work as an organization consultant, I coach teams and individuals from a systemic perspective.

After a very intense retreat, I felt that I would like to contribute to society and education for the future. For me, the Systemic Pedagogics program is a wonderful way to pass on the ideas that Bibi Schreuder has put into this program.

I have a lot of fun in my work and I get a lot of satisfaction with that. In addition, I enjoy sporting activities (running and tennis) and I go to Uganda every year to guide young people there to shape their own future.

My name is Jochen Beyer, I was born in northern Germany at the end of 1967. When I was two and a half years old we moved to the Netherlands where I grew up and still live. Via South Holland (Rotterdam) and Noord-Brabant (Vught) I ended up on the “Hondsrug” in Drenthe (Gieten). Again close to my birthplace.

From a chemical technological background, I have increasingly made the shift from chemistry between substances to chemistry between people. I have followed various systemic training courses, including at Wind Office (systemic coaching with horses) and at the Bert Hellinger Institute. I feel grateful and proud to have been able to translate Bert Hellinger’s biography from German into Dutch.

Within the Bert Hellinger Institute you can meet me at workshops, setups and training courses.
I am particularly fascinated by the simplicity and at the same time the complexity of the Systemic work. Phenomenologically aware of what is and recognizing this continues to fascinate me.

I also have my own BeyerEnzo coaching and training agency for individual and team coaching and training. Especially focused on attitude and behavior and in interaction with each other. For this I often work with crisis teams from the security regions.

Together with my wife Marion Latour we often give workshops and trainings in which we use the systemic wisdom of horses. We do this both at home and abroad.

Finally, or actually first, I am the proud father of four (almost) adult children. They are an inexhaustible source for lifelong learning for me.

I am Iveta and my experience comes from working with organizations and leaders as a business trainer and executive coach for seventeen years. I believe that when doing something for more then ten years, we start to really understand what we are actually doing. This was the moment I discovered systemic work and grew into it with Bert Hellinger Institute The Netherlands. For me, systemic work has become a way to relate to the world and bring my input to families, organizations and societies.

I am founder of Systemic Constellations Center Riga providing organizational and family constellations trainings, systemic coaching and transformational processes facilitation. Coming from Riga, Latvia, which is a part of the world with rich unfolded systemic history, this is a journey of constant discoveries which I share with training participants and blog readers. I work in three languages (Latvian, English and Russian), locally and internationally. I am happy to be affiliated trainer of Bert Hellinger Institute The Netherlands and part of the knowledge tank and community created.