May 2026: with Tom McDevitt (and others), we organise a workshop to promote the skillset and role of ‘Mediators of Innovation‘ in urban innovation ecosystems
April 2026: info booth and presentation on ‘ARISE‘ at the AMS conference – Pascal Frank and my approach to strengthening innovation through research & training on inner development
August 2025 – April 2026: we completed four ARISE training sessions with project managers, engineers, cost estimators, and sustainability advisors from Dura Vermeer – a family-owned construction company dedicated to providing sustainable building solutions across the Netherlands.
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February – September 2025: we ran three sessions of ARISE training with the AMS Urban Impact Team – 15 professionals who coordinate diverse innovation projects within the city of Amsterdam.
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December 2024: update on the spiral model – a sketch of the path from difficult moments into response-ability
December 2024: I started a post-doctoral research position at Wageningen University and Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, supervised by Pascal Frank. Excited for this move into a new role and life!
December 2024: update on the ‘principles and values‘ that guide our work with the Enactive Research group
August 2024: publication of a Scientific Reports article on the BallGame – an innovative paradigm and mixed methods approach to reveal contributions of interpersonal movement coordination, behaviour and personality differences on social engagement.
July 2024: conference contribution at ‘Psychology and the Other’ London, Exploring implications of radically enactive practices for research and collaboration – an initiative for Enactive Research, with Willeke Rietdijk and Mary Rees
November 2023: publication of a Royal Society Open Science article on the flourishing of science and scientists alike. How can we embody kindness and sharing in scientific environments, as individuals and institutions? Co-authored as the Flourishing Science Think Tank.
February 2023: I ran my first Leadership and Management Skills workshop as a trainer with hfp-consulting – in Kampala, Uganda!
December 2022: sketching ideas for playful and participatory social transformation
November 2022: publication of an Adaptive Behaviour article on the Navi Ear: can perception be extended to a sense of north? Work from my Masters thesis in Paris, with Christoph Witzel, Frank Schumann and Kevin O’Regan.
September 2022: publication of a Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences article on micro-phenomenology. A hands-on introduction of an interviewing technique that brings participants closer to their moment-to-moment lived experience. Co-authored with Katrin Heimann, Hanne Bess Boelsbjerg, Chris Allen, Martijn van Beek, Christian Suhr and Claire Petitmengin.
August 2022: publication of a Constructivist Foundations open peer commentary on curiosity – an emplaced virtue to move science towards the edge? An argument for both distance and prolonged attentive engagement as elements of co-creative research. In response to Laura Candiotto’s target article on situated loving and knowing as participatory sense-making.
June 2022: illustration of the BallGame experiment, which forms the central part of my PhD on social interaction dynamics at the department of neuro- and pathophysiology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf.
May 2022: a first report on the activities of the Mindful Researchers – an international practice group and network of researchers dedicated to integrating a contemplative attitude and approach into their professional role.
March 2022: illustration of the Sonified MirrorGame, the second laboratory experiment that I conducted as part of my PhD.
September 2021: publication of a Frontiers in Human Neuroscience article on social sensorimotor contingencies. A theory article that summarises the background of my laboratory work: it presents social cognition as the result of entrained – embodied and situated – rhythms of perceiving and moving together. Co-authored with Florian Göschl, Till Schneider, Alexander Maye, Hanna Krause and Andreas Engel.
August 2021: link to Erin Bell’s science guide for somatic practitioners and resources into forage gardens and mycorrhizal fungi
July 2021: publication of a Journal of Play in Adulthood article on scores for the Playful Academic. How can we involve our embodied experience and situated interaction dynamic in our collaborative research work? A selection of tools. Co-authored with Katrin Heimann and Pedro González-Fernández.
July 2021: APA convention – symposium abstract. Joint contribution with Mary Gehring Rees, Willeke Rietdijk and Wolfgang Lukas from the Mindful Researchers group.
March 2021: thoughts on bridging levels – from personal, to community-based knowing
December 2020: a short note on interdisciplinary collaboration – why care?
November 2020: Gelebte Tradition. Was ist das? Wann funktioniert’s?