Human Design Sessions

The biggest question is not "What ought I do with my life" 

but "who am I, what is my nature? - Parker Palmer 

Human Design is an experiment in being yourself. Not the self we aspire to be, but the self we are at our core, including both our strengths and limitations. It is a practical tool of self-awareness that shows us our potential. And it reveals with nearly comical precision, how we each self-sabotage. The more we have the capacity to interrupt these patterns, the more we catch snatches of our nature. There is ease there.

INTERRUPT OLD PATTERNS & RECLAIM YOUR STRENGTHS

I offer readings that reveal where conditioning blocks your true nature. Once you recognize your people-pleasing, overworking, or proving tendencies clearly, it frees you up to make new choices. However, it's tempting to stay stuck here and use our design as an excuse to play small and hide behind limiting beliefs. That's why I highlight your gifts with equal force. For we are not here just to live out our neuroses, but to see what emerges when we dare surrender to our strengths. 

TRUST YOUR RHYTHM 

Steeped in the I Ching, Human Design is really about ‘not forcing’. When we pause or push ourselves from a mental place, no matter our type, we become exhausted or even burn out. Human Design is not about doing nothing. It simply invites us to explore and learn to trust our rhythm, irrespective of the messages our culture drenches us with. 

BEWARE OF NEW LIMITING BELIEFS 

As with anything, you can turn your Human Design into a new limiting story of yourself that sounds something like this: 'I am a (generator, projector, manifestor, or reflector) and therefore I believe I should (respond, wait for an invitation, inform, wait a moon cycle).' But then you are boxing yourself in. Human Design is a completely different dance. It is an experiment in awareness and not a protocol to be followed. There is discovery and freedom right there. 

HUMAN DESIGN SESSIONS 

EXPERIENCE

I encountered Human Design in the summer of 2019 while working on a documentary about a Blues musician that ended in a clash. It turned out that both of us were manifestors. Decades of people-pleasing could not suppress the deep rage that erupted in me when I was told what to do. Once I listened to Ra's lecture on the manifestor type, my body knew what my mind scrambled to comprehend. The description of the Manifestor felt like a distant memory of myself that I had drifted far away from.

I started to self-study Ra's vast library and take classes. But I was always searching for the right teacher. In James Alexander I found someone who taught Human Design not as a system of personality types but as a trauma informed path of self-development. These past years have been a profound adventure of breaking coping mechanisms but also reclaiming parts of myself: my anger,  my defined ego, my off-beat creative self-expression.  And it has been one of the most interesting ongoing experiments. 

Human Design

• Foundational Courses with Human Design America, Human design collective

• Three Semesters of Analyst Training with James Alexander

• Self Study since 2019 

Other training: 

• Schools of Energetic Perception: a 3-year training in consciousness, awareness and energy perception.   Teacher: Aukje van den Vorstenbosch.

• UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism: I create podcasts, I write, And in the past I worked in Dutch Media and for international outlets creating videos and short docs.  The thing I love most is interviewing.  Being present, listening and asking questions helps unearth stories. It love using these skills in service of my clients in a session. 

• MA History Leiden University: I like digging into the stories we tell ourselves about the past both personal and collective. Especially where it starts to rub.