Since 2015, I have worked a lot internationally. Many people ask me how I do that and how people from abroad find me. This is the story.

It all started with my mom and dad

Since 2015, I’ve worked extensively internationally. People often ask me how I manage that, and how people from abroad even find me. This is the story.

It all started with my mom and dad.

Back in 1999, they went on a spiritual journey to the Altai mountains in Siberia, Russia, known as the energetic center of the earth. A very special place. At the time, my mom wasn’t into spiritual things at all, but for some reason her intuition told her she had to join my dad on this adventure. My dad, on the other hand, was always drawn to spirituality.

During that trip, they met a man named Rob Bac. It might have seemed unimportant then, but as it turned out, this meeting would play a key role later. That’s often how it goes — you meet someone and only much later realise how important they are in your life.

A lecture I knew I had to attend

A few years later, in 2003, my dad passed away. My mom moved to a new house in Norg, in the north of the Netherlands (I grew up in the west, near The Hague). She began hosting spiritual lectures in her living room, and in October that year, she organised her first one.

While looking for interesting speakers, she contacted Rob Bac. He told her about a man he’d met at one of his own lectures, someone who could perceive far more than our five senses allow. I had no idea what his lecture would be about, but I felt strongly I had to attend.

That evening, I was deeply impressed. Something inside me shifted. There really was more to life than we can see. His words rang true and set things in motion for me.

Where an adventure starts

At the time, I was working as a consultant for small and medium-sized businesses. I contacted the man from the lecture again, this time to invite him to give a workshop on internet marketing for my clients. That was the start of a new journey. I learned a lot from him, not only about internet marketing, but also about energy, past lives, and forces at play in the world and beyond.

In 2007, he gave me the push I needed to start my own business and became one of my first clients. Together, we worked on all sorts of projects, from internet marketing and Maya workshops to television productions.

An intuitive walk leads to Bulgaria

Even after our business paths drifted apart, we’d occasionally meet for a “walk and talk.” In 2013, we met halfway in Ommen. After tea in a restaurant called The Sun, we decided to follow my intuition on an intuitive walk. It felt slightly awkward, yet also right.

Not far from the restaurant, my attention was intuitively drawn to a large, inviting building, a mansion. We walked over, noticing “Coaching” signs at the gate and on the door. That was a strange coincidence, since I was a coach. I was ready to keep walking, but my friend opened the door and stepped inside. It turned out to be a training location called Olde Vechte.

Inside, a young Turkish woman named Pinar welcomed us with tea and cookies, as if she’d been expecting us. We talked about intuition, cultures, and coaching. She mentioned the director was busy training a group of European young people but would soon be free.

A little later, the director, Marko Vlaming, joined us. He was intrigued by my intuitive approach to coaching and training. We exchanged business cards and went on our way.

The connection that opened a door abroad

Because Marko had shown interest, I sent him information about my workshops and trainings. He later told me that my so-called “SPAM” emails triggered him to attend an information evening. That led to him joining my Intuitive Coaching training and later my Constellation Facilitation training. He wanted to integrate these methods into his own programs for young Europeans.

Setting an intention to go international

By late 2014, I felt ready to work more abroad. The kids were in high school, there was more room to grow my business. Having spent a year in high school in Texas in 1988, my thoughts initially drifted to the USA. Bulgaria was nowhere on my radar.

How Bulgaria found me

Marko had been using constellations in his trainings, and the participants loved it. One of them, Yassar from Bulgaria, had a friend named Rossitza who wanted to organize business constellation seminars. When she asked if he knew a good facilitator, he immediately suggested me.

I met Yassar in Ommen and had my first Skype call with Rossi in early 2015. On March 31, 2016, I flew to Sofia to work with her, without us ever having met in person. On April 1, she brought together 50 local business leaders for my workshop. They loved it, and so did I. Rossi also arranged a Bloomberg TV interview, and we used the rest of my stay to plan next steps.

A second Bulgarian connection

The strange thing is that around the same time, another Bulgarian contacted me. Tihomir had been one of the participants in a six-day training I gave in Ommen for 40 young people from all over Eastern Europe. He asked if I might be interested in contributing to an international conference on organisational learning in Sofia at the end of May. The event was organised by the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), founded by Peter Senge.

When I was in Sofia in April, I met up with Tihomir. The thing was, I didn’t really understand what this conference was about, or what exactly I could contribute. It also wasn’t clear whether I would earn anything from it. I spoke with Konstantin, who was in charge of the event, but even after that conversation, I still wasn’t sure.

My intuition told me I needed more information before I could say yes, especially since there was no budget to cover my travel. So Tihomir and I met with another man, Evgene, who knew a little more about the conference. Even then, something still didn’t click.

How things fall together – synchronicity

Then Evgene suggested we speak with Natalia, the person who really knew the ins and outs of the conference. The only problem was, it was already 17:30 and she’d been busy all day. Still, he decided to call her. As luck would have it, a meeting of hers had just been cancelled, and she invited us to come by immediately.

We had a great conversation. She cleared up many of my questions, and later she told me that meeting me had been important for her too, it gave her the confidence that I could bring real value to the program, even though we hadn’t yet discussed my contribution in detail.

When I got back home, I joined several Skype calls with the organizing team, and on May 19th, I flew to Sofia for the second time.

Great conference and great connections

The conference itself was fantastic. I met so many wonderful people, both from Bulgaria and from other parts of the world, and it felt as if I had known many of them for years. The constellations I facilitated brought depth and insight, and participants responded with great enthusiasm.

Even though I wasn’t paid and had to cover my own travel costs, it was absolutely worth the investment. People had experienced my work first-hand, and I knew this would open doors for future opportunities.

Beyond that, I felt I had made a genuine contribution to Bulgaria, something that, for reasons I can’t fully explain, felt necessary for me to do. Call it karma, call it destiny… all I know is that it was the right thing, and I’m glad I said yes.

From Paris via Lyon to Porto, and then to India

In June 2016, I received an email from Pierre. He had heard about the work I’d done in Sofia and wanted to learn how to facilitate constellations himself. Could he join one of my trainings? This led to a wonderful training in Paris in December 2016, where I taught 12 people how to facilitate constellations in a business context. It was fantastic, both to teach this work and to be doing it in Paris!

One of the participants later approached me with a request to facilitate a constellation in her father’s company. That’s how I ended up in Lyon, and later on a houseboat in Amsterdam, where the whole family came together so I could guide father and daughter through a business constellation.

In March, I received another email. this time from Bulgaria. asking if I wanted to join a European Erasmus+ project. The idea was to help develop a methodology for youth workers to support young people with fewer opportunities in developing entrepreneurial skills. The request came from one of the participants of the Sofia conference, who was eager for me to integrate intuitive elements such as business constellations. Since then, I have done many Erasmus+ projects, the latest leading to a European Network of Intuitive Trainers (EUNITA).

Intuitive internationalisation

By then, I was becoming more and more involved with SoL. I joined the board of SoL Netherlands and became part of the organizing team for the next conference, to be held in Portugal. In May 2017, I travelled to Porto and Braga as part of an international team, working with a group of Portuguese people to explore what was needed to help their cities flourish again. Once more, I was able to facilitate beautiful constellations and meet inspiring people. What a gift!

Since then, I have given trainings in Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Dubai, Skopje, and Yundola, with participants from all over the world. It’s truly wonderful to work in such an international field, to witness our differences, and also how much we share in common.

These days, I also offer online trainings in English for international groups, which is a great way to make intuitive entrepreneurship and constellation work accessible to people all over the world. I also love that these trainings connect people globally; in fact, during the training in Skopje, a romance began between participants from Romania and Lithuania.

And now, in 2025, this international journey is taking me to Mumbai, India, where I will step into a new role as the business constellation trainer at a school dedicated to educating the next generation of constellation facilitators.

The 7 lessons this journey taught me

This is a very important story for me. It has tought me some very important questions about live and about doing business.

1. Everyone you meet is in your life for a reason, sometimes for now, sometimes for later.
2. Life works best when you see it as an unfolding adventure.
3. Don’t over-plan. Set an intention, then let go.
4. Go on more intuitive walks, and take the extra step, open that door, walk into that building.
5. Sometimes, trust someone completely and follow your intuition blindly.
6. Be grateful, even for opportunities that don’t make you money.
7. Everything begins with your parents, be thankful for them.