Our team
Jan Jacob Stam
Owner | Trainer
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.
Bibi Schreuder
Owner | Trainer
Bibi Schreuder
Owner | Trainer
I am Bibi Schreuder, co-owner and trainer at the Bert Hellinger institute Netherlands. From a great love of learning, I grant people their own learning process and support them in this. To let people get a grip on systemic thinking, I have developed many exercises. I appear to be a keen observer, with humor and love for the profession.
Systemic pedagogy came from my educational background. I find it interesting to systematically understand themes such as “bullying”, “learning difficulties”, “autism”, but also health issues. With constellations and through systemic coaching I support people in their movement in life or work.
I give workshops and training in different countries (in English). I completed the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and worked in secondary vocational education from 1976 to 2001 as a teacher in drawing and art education, and as an internship supervisor and coordinator.
Married to Jan Jacob Stam, mother of our (already mature) son and daughter. I have always been fascinated by the forces that occur in nature. Like the beauty of a tree that, after an ice storm years ago, is able to re-rise out of its broken branches. I also see systemic work as forces of nature that you cannot deny; you can only work with it.
Barbara Hoogenboom
Owner | Trainer
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.
Sandra Hardenberg
Officemanager
I am Sandra Hardenberg and I am the office manager of the Bert Hellinger Institute the Netherlands. I will be the first person you will get in touch with when you have questions, subscribe for a workshop or send an e-mail.
Since March 2016 I am working at the institute. Before this I worked for years in a Dutch restaurant chain as manager and management assistant. In the beginning of 2016 I felt it was time for a change in my career and I found the Bert Hellinger Institute, where I am now working with a lot of joy and enthusiasm.
Together with my husband, daughter and son we live very close to the institute. I love running, cooking for guests and travelling.
Mayna Feijen
Communication's officer
I’m Mayna Feijen. I’m originally from Brazil, but live since 2007 in The Netherlands. During my studies I worked a few years as Assistant Kitchen Manager, and after that, as Marketing & Sales Officer of an airport.
In April 2017 I started working as Communications Officer at the Bert Hellinger Institute, a team which I’m glad to be a part of.
I’m married to Bart, and we have two (small) children. I love to make (and listen to) music, enjoy reading and badminton.
Nine van der Velde
Administration
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.
Alla Atroschenko
Financial Administration
Alla Atroschenko
Financial Administration
Rudolf Boerema
Host | Handyman
Rudolf Boerema
Host | Handyman
My name is Rudolf Boerema and I live in Eelderwolde. Since May 2016 I have been working for the Bert Hellinger Institute. In addition to being a host, I am also a handyman, gardener and driver for the Bert Hellinger Institute. In my spare time I am a volunteer at the Bloemencorso Eelde for the Eelderwolde district and I also like to ride my motorcycle.
Angelique van Eekelen
Hostess Amsterdam
Angelique van Eekelen
Hostess Amsterdam
I have cared for my family for years. When I first experienced a family constellation a few years ago, I became very enthusiastic about what this work does for people. As a result, as a hostess I can imagine what is needed for our participants. I think it is important that our visitors can feel at ease with us.
I provide lunch and interim refreshments at the Amsterdam location and I also keep the building clean and tidy.
I live in Amsterdam with my two adult children and a whole series of pets. I also love good food and enjoy life.
Anton de Kroon
Affiliated trainer
Anton de Kroon
Affiliated trainer
At the first sight something may look as being a problem – and therefore usually not being welcomed – but at a deeper, systemic level it could be a beautiful solution.
To me it is crucial that people showing an interest in exploring this phenomenon discover how to make the move from the excluding ‘no’, to the including ‘yes’.
Contributing to this via teaching and training, gives me great satisfaction in my work. In exchange for this I also travel with pleasure through Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
After having worked as a management consultant for fifteen years, I work since 2008 in liaison with the Bert Hellinger Institute. In close cooperation with Siebke Kaat I translated constellation work into a ‘normal’ conversation in consulting- and coaching processes. I published books and articles on this subject. In combination with giving trainings and workshops I contribute to making the systemic-phenomenological approach more accessible and applicable.
For some thirty-five years I was a keen mountaineer. Nowadays I enjoy long-distance hiking, in order to relax and to get charged up again.
Siebke Kaat
Affiliated trainer
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.
Yvonne Lonis
Affiliated trainer
I have been working as a trainer and coach for over twenty years. Until 2003 I worked for various organizations including the Judicial Institutions Agency. Since 2004 I have run my own training agency and focus primarily on leadership development, team building, personal development and communication through training, coaching, peer review and process guidance.
From the moment I came into contact with constellations and followed various training courses I have my systemic glasses all the time on, and I integrate my systemic view into my work, where possible. I supervise workshops with family and organizational constellations. I give various courses and I am a systemic coach. I enjoy training, contributing to the dissemination of systemic work, and to tap into systemic awareness that is already there, in students, organizations and in society. My style is characterized as practical, decisive and connecting.
I am married, live in the middle of the country and I am the mother of two (adult) children.
Marion Latour
Affiliated trainer
My name is Marion Latour and I am working at the Bert Hellinger Institute as a trainer and coach. Providing training and workshops in the field of systemic work in organizations is my specialization and passion. How can you awaken systemic consciousness and intelligence in organizations?
I also enjoy working with the systemic wisdom of horses, therefore I provide the systemic workshops with horses on both personal and organizational issues of individuals and teams.
I give courses and workshops in both Dutch and English.
In the past 19 years I have had several leadership positions within the fire brigade and the police. Since 2013 I combine systemic knowledge with my work at the fire brigade. Each organization has systemic intelligence, but every organization has its own ways to discover it. I find it a challenge to unravel that puzzle.
Together with my partner and his children, we enjoy nature, our horses and other animals on our farm at an inspiring place in Drenthe.
Marije Boot
Affiliated trainer
Marije Boot
Affiliated trainer
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.
Petra van de Kop
Affiliated trainer
I am Petra van de Kop and I provide the Training Systemic Advising at the Dutch Bert Hellinger Institute. I work as an advisor, coach and process supervisor and coach people, teams, organizations, neighborhoods, areas and networks for sustainable innovation. I enjoy looking at organizations as living systems and discovering, developing and contributing in co-creation to changes that are meaningful for people, organizations and society.
My love for living systems started early. As a child I wanted to become a forester or farmer. I went to the Agricultural University of Wageningen, graduated Cum Laude on ‘Land Use Systems’ and worked for fifteen years as a consultant for various organizations at home and abroad. I regularly saw how people and projects broke with all kinds of good intentions. With systemic work I discovered glasses to gain insight into the sometimes tough undercurrent of change and renewal processes, and learned to use my own awareness as an instrument. Every time I am impressed by what that sets in motion.
I am married, mother of three teenagers and live in Wageningen. I like to wander through nature, often with a camera. I like to cook with fresh vegetables from our field. Outside and with Qigong I recharge, and find new inspiration.
Maaike van der Heiden
Affiliated trainer
Maaike van der Heiden
Affiliated trainer
My name is Maaike van der Heiden and I have been working at the Bert Hellinger Institute since 2018. You can come across me as a trainer and compiler with in-company training and coaching, social issues and in the training courses. In addition to this work, I have had my own coaching practice since 2006, in which I use work or an activity as much as possible (such as climbing or running).
In 1998 I started at the theater school in Arnhem, but soon I changed my studying life for an unstoppable passion: traveling. For almost ten years I have combined traveling with various activities. In the end my wish to make a contribution grew and I started to become a trainer and coach.
What continues to fascinate me is growth. From an individual, from an organization, from nature and from the bigger picture. For me, systemic interventions are a logical, indispensable part of growth. I smile when I have been allowed to contribute to the continuous flow of development.
Ik woon samen met mijn vriend en onze twee jonge kinderen in Mook. Mijn creativiteit komt tot uiting in de liefde voor koken en verder houd ik van Cross Fit en reizen (ik kan het niet laten).
Jochen Beyer
Affiliated trainer
Jochen Beyer
Affiliated trainer
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.
Mark Reijnders
Affiliated trainer
Mijn naam is Mark Reijnders. Ik begeleid mensen en organisaties in het maken van sprongen voorwaarts in hun ontwikkeling (quantum leaps). Zodanig dat er geen weg meer terug is. Dat doe ik door mensen bewust over een drempel te laten stappen in een soort van tijdelijke ‘tussenruimte’.
In deze ruimte bestaat als het ware even niks en tegelijkertijd heel veel. De ruimte stelt de groep in staat het universele gesprek te voeren over verleden, heden en toekomst. En verbonden met het grotere geheel de dialoog te voeren over hun identiteit en te experimenteren met nieuwe concepten en toepassingen.
Voorbij de tussenruimte is waar diepere inzichten worden getransformeerd naar pakkende ideeën en praktische initiatieven. Het systemische gedachtengoed werkt in deze beweging waanzinnig versnellend. Met name omdat het op verschillende manieren houvast biedt.
Vanuit het Bert Hellinger Instituut kom je mij voornamelijk tegen als verspreider van het systemisch werken in organisaties. Gericht op beweging en ontwikkeling; uitnodigend, onderzoekend en zelf-lerend. Overeenkomstig hoe ik in mijn werk en privé anderen activeer.
Naast het Bert Hellinger Instituut ben ik eigenaar van Nzym, een strategisch consultancy bureau. De naam Nzym is afgeleid van een enzym, een tijdelijke katalysator in transformatieprocessen.
Ik woon met mijn jeugdliefde in Apeldoorn, de plaats waarin we beiden zijn opgegroeid. Een fijne en groene omgeving waarin onze vier kinderen ook weer opgroeien. Ik geniet van fikkie stoken, op zondagochtend een fiks stuk fietsen met vrienden en het maken van lange wandelingen op de Veluwe.
Dragos Riti
Internationale gelieerde trainer
Dragos Riti
Internationale gelieerde trainer
I am Dragos, I am from Romania and I have a background in engineering, working for more than 20 years in multinational organizations. My first encounter with the systemic work was in 2009. It was a birthday present, to be part of a Family Constellation workshop, for a week-end. There, I got the insight of my life, that this is the path to pursue for the rest of my life. Here I am now, after years of discoveries and training, doing this work with deep gratitude spreading the knowledge wherever it’s needed. The Bert Hellinger Institute from the Netherlands was an important contributor of my development in this field.
Systemic perception has become a second nature and helps bringing this work in organizations, family and society. I am trainer of family and organizational constellations, running trainings and workshops locally and international. I am founder of Quantum Connection providing assistance, support, running trainings and workshops, helping transformational processes using systemic tools, for individuals, families or organizations. I am working in English, French and Romanian and recently I have started working with horses using their innate ability to connect to the unconscious, revealing their systemic wisdom.
For me every day is bringing the gifts of exploration and discovery, leading me on a perpetual journey in the world of marvels, where we have the opportunity and the blessing to touch humbly other people’s lives. I am deeply grateful for that.
Iveta Apine
International affiliated trainer
Iveta Apine
International affiliated trainer
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.
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