- He is Director from the Centre for Sustainable Upbringing and Development
- He is Director from the Centre for Experiential Education the Netherlands
- He is teacher trainer, coach and guide from routes of innovation for education, government and business communities.
- He studied Pedagogical education, Education for children with special needs, NLP an Feuerstein.
- He started in 1990 the first school for Experiential Education ‘Uilenspiegel’ in Boekel (Holland).
- He works on the University of Leuven (Belgium) in the centre for Experiential Education with prof. Laevers together on a several projects.
- He is one of the founders of the ‘Nivoz’(Dutch institute for education and upbringing) with prof. Stevens in Driebergen.
- He is the founder (1995) and general editor of the journal ‘Egoscoop’ and the site www.ervaringsgerichtonderwijs.nl
- He is the author (2005) of the standard publication ‘ErvaringsGericht Onderwijs; van oriëntatie tot implementatie’.
- He is author from a lot of columns and articles.
- He is producer from four educational movies: “ErvaringsGericht Onderwijs”, “De Klas van Nienke”, “Leren Leven” en “Ateliers, ErvaringsGericht actief”.
- He gave lectures about a lot of education subjects: “Developments in the educational world”, “Wellbeing and Involvement, the criteria for successful development”, “Life lessons and solidarity”, etc. in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Suriname, Japan, St. Maarten, Curacao.
- He visited more than 20 countries to study educational practices.
- He is founder (1995)of the foundation of Experiential education St. Maarten (Caribbean) where he trained schools and developed a model for education and police (prevention delinquent behaviour) of the Caribbean.
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