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New website
Finally: the new website is online! With the help of Hanneke Willigers from Websmile the former site has had a complete ‘extreme make over’. The old texts have been either re-written or deleted, and some new texts and pages have been added. As this new website is launched, the english edition of The Tears of the Ancestors is released and I present the plans for a new two-year training. If you read this page (and look at the rest of the site) you will be completely updated.

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Systemic Ritual®
The color green is technically a mixture of blue and yellow, but it is called green, not ‘blue and yellow’. My work has often been called ‘shamanism and constellations, both by myself and by others, but I started to gradually dislike this description. It simply did not seem accurate anymore. I have been searching for a new name for the style of ritualistic constellations I have been developing for quite a while, and about two years ago arrived at systemic ritual. With the recent developments in the world of constellations in mind, I decided to protect this name with a trademark, and now Systemic Ritual® is a fact. On the page Systemic Ritual®, you will find a summarized description of the work, and a short history in which I mention some important sources that have been influencial when I was developing it.

Training Systemic Ritual®
For years, people have been asking me: “Do you offer a training programm in which I can learn to lead your kind of constellaltions?” Until recently the answer was always ‘no’, but now this has changed. I am preparing a programm of twentyfour training days (in a period of two years). The training will consist of eight modules, each with its own theme. In each module the participants will be supported (individually and in small groups) to develop their own rituals and constellation formats, after having been prepared fot this by theory and practical experiental work. I do not want to produce clones of myself but to stimulate and support people to develop systemic rituals in which their own authenticity will be clearly visible. At the moment you can not yet register for this training, but you can send me an email and ask to be placed on the list of people who are interested to join. People on this list will get news as soon as registration starts. There will be two parallel groups: one dutch spoken in the Netherlands which will probably start at the end of 2009, and an english spoken group in Zwitserland which will begin in January 2010.

English edition of The Tears of the Ancestors
At last the english edition of my latest book has been printed, after the Dutch, Spanish and German versions have been released earlier. Did you like the book? Use the ‘tell a friend’ button and let others know about it! Write a personal message in a mail which contains a link to the book on the publications page on this site.

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The Four Directions
For some time now I have been trying to get the english manuscript of The Four Directions published via a print on demand publisher. Unfortunately, every time I must face the fact I do not have the necessary energy and time to manage this process. If you, reader, are familiar with the world of print on demand publishers and if you are able to help me get this book published this way, I will appreciate it if you would contact me. It would be great if this book will become available in english.

Expected
'Ruimte voor relaties' (the book with rituals for people who are looking for a partner) is not for sale anymore in the Netherlands, but in Germany it keeps selling by the thousands. No doubt, one of the reasons is that the German title is much juicier than the Dutch: Ich lasse mich finden (I let somebody find me). A Polish has been planned now, it will appear shortly before Valentines day 2009
I also signed a contract with a Roumanian publisher for Images of the Soul. This will be the book’s eighth print, and it should be for sale in the Roumanian bookshops by fall this year.