Developing congruency

My path began in the arts and the humanities. During my studies at the Vrije Hogeschool, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague), I explored how ideas take shape in reality and how easily thought can detach from experience and action. That tension between concept and reality became the thread of my further development: a search for coherence between mind and body, vision and execution.

In Aikido, Taijiquan and Qigong, I found disciplines that do not merely describe that coherence but train it. For over twenty-five years I have deepened my practice in these internal martial arts.

Since 2005 I have taught the internal arts (Studio MENG), and since 2015 I have trained executives, teams and professionals in embodied leadership through Elementair werk.

I am known for making complex principles tangible, even for the most analytical participants.

Today I live and train in Indonesia for much of the year, where I continue to study traditional internal martial arts, meditation and Chinese health arts.

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, housing association Portaal, Vervoersregio Amsterdam, Police Netherlands, Philips, the International Criminal Court, European Patent Office, EY Netherlands, Ardis and others have been inspired by MENG Elementair werk.