What Matters Conversations with Wim Verbeek

How do we hold the alignment between Light and Shadow/Trauma and Healing?

Join us for this deeply personal interview with Wim as he shares his own journey through illness and loss and how Psychosynthesis found him during a most challenging and difficult time in his life. 

He discusses his own realization about the importance of both descending and transcending in the process of personal growth, "We should be able to hold both our Light and our Shadow, our Love and our Fear - this is a process" of our own unfolding. 

Wim also talks with us about how he holds this alignment between Light and Shadow, between trauma and healing, both within himself as a therapist and for his clients and highlights the necessity for maintaining alignment of mind/heart/body in Presence.  To learn more about Wim and his work, please visit: https://www.psychosynthese.amsterdam/en/about-wim-verbeek/

About Wim Verbeek:
Wim Verbeek Bio: Based in Amsterdam, Wim Verbeek worked in health care for over 15 years as a male nurse, 7 years in a general hospital and later as principal male nurse in a care center for the elderly. In 1998 he completed the Social Work & Services training at the ‘Hanze Hogeschool’, Graduate School of Groningen. After that he worked for several years as a corporate social worker for various organizations. He undertook Psychosynthesis training at the Institute for Psychosynthesis and professional training at the Psychosynthesis Academy. After intensive years of therapy and training, his personal experiences with illness and loss have become the basis of his work as a coach, counselor and therapist in his own practice where he specializes in Bodywork, Individual systemic work, IoPT Constellation method, counseling in sexual abuse and trauma, Primal Wounding and early childhood trauma.             
Recorded April 11, 2021

Your Hosts:
Craig Behenna is an Australian Psychosynthesis Life Coach and facilitator with the Synthesis Center San Francisco's Coaching Practice Group. He is also a filmmaker, screenwriter, former psychotherapist and, in a much earlier life, a lapsed accountant. Craig began practicing meditation with Thich Nhat Nanh and the community at Plum Village, France.  He is also a member of Zen Peacemakers International.
Christina Gustafson is a  is a Board Certified Coach and Psychosynthesis Life Coach.  She is also Certified Massage Practitioner with advanced training in Myofascial Release, a Level III
Reiki Practitioner and a glass artist.   

About Synthesis Center San Francisco and The Synthesis Center, Amherst, Massachusetts:
Synthesis Center San Francisco  is a global community of students, teachers, practitioners and facilitators committed to supporting the next generation of psychosynthesis. We offer distance learning programs, including: Board Certified Life Coach training in psychosynthesis in collaboration with The Synthesis Center, personal development programs, continuing education, workshops,  group and individual coaching. 
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"How The Synthesis Center, based in Amherst, Massachusetts, has trained hundreds of individuals from across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Mexico, Asia and South Africa through their in-person and distance learning Psychosynthesis Training Programs. Under the direction of Dr. Dorothy (Didi) Firman, The Synthesis Center has been an international resources to the psychosynthesis community for more than 40 years.