Meeting

We are Pieter.

Pieter is strong, curious, active and engaged. We do not have to become Pieter, and we cannot leave Pieter at home. There is no switch that turns us on or off. Pieter is who we are. Everything we have learned and developed has become part of us, and we bring it all to our work.

We listen to other people and to what is happening around us, while making our own choices. We move towards our aim one step at a time. The direction, pace and distance may change. What matters is that we keep moving.

Pieter sr.

Translator of Aikido

In February 1984 I began practising and studying Aikido, while learning how to translate its principles into everyday life. I first did so in nursing, in general, psychiatric and dialysis care, and later as a manager, department head, acting head of nursing and director, in the way I worked with the people around me.

As head of HR, I brought those principles into the organisation as a whole. Since November 2000, I have worked full-time to make this philosophy tangible in everyday practice, working with many teams and individuals along the way.

Pieter jr.

Tai Chi & education

At fourteen I started practising Tai Chi and eventually teaching it. I worked five years in marketing and communication and fourteen years as a primary school teacher.

Through my father I encountered the philosophy of Aikido. Those different strands of experience now come together in training and one-to-one guidance. I help people discover how they can be stronger, more confident, more effective, more authentic and more relaxed, without becoming someone other than themselves.