About us

This course can be helpful at any stage of life when you're becoming interested in reflecting on your own mortality. This course will give you a framework for incorporating awareness of death and impermanence in your everyday life and for preparing for death through the way in which we live. Ideally, we would all learn about death while we are healthy so that when great life changes come we are not overwhelmed.

The framework for this course is based on an authentic framework for preparing spiritually for death from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. I have aimed to translate the elements of this framework into language that anyone can make use of, but without changing any of the essential meaning. They are universally recognisable aspects of anyone's life and dying process.

When speaking of spirituality, I find it important to present something reliable that has been authenticated and proven through practice over many centuries - the spiritual equivalent of scientific accuracy! I have thus added nothing and taken nothing essential out of this traditional model and have refrained from basing it only on my limited understanding of the spiritual aspect of the cycle of life and death.

Yes, I also offer this course in the form of a conversation series via Zoom. You can follow the course with one or two others which can be an ideal way to include your loved ones in your reflections on your mortality. Please contact me if you are interested in taking part in a conversation series.

Yes, I love to give this workshop to groups of friends, colleagues or small residential communities! Please contact me to discuss the details. We can also hold the workshop online for a group of your choice.

This style of coaching is for you if you:

• want to get the best out of the life you have
• believe that it's possible to grow personally through facing illness, loss and death openly
• hope to find ways to approach aging and illness with inner strength
• want to learn how to cope with dependency and loss of control
• are curious to find a new relationship with life and death
• wish to begin preparing emotionally and spiritually for death

No, life coaching is NOT therapy, crisis intervention, or end-of-life care.

• People with serious illness and a life expectancy of one or more years
• People with chronic illness
• Older people
• Family caregivers
• People of all ages experiencing major life transitions

That is completely up to you. Some people attend a number of sessions to work on a specific question. Or you may work through a number of questions intensively and then come back periodically whenever needed. If you live in the Netherlands, it may be possible to make a long-term arrangement though a PGB (persoonsgebonden budget).
I recommend committing to at least 3 sessions to begin with so that you experience how the coaching method works over time.