About us: How did Healing Coaching come to be
My name is Frans Bakker. I am a physician and the man behind "Healing Coaching.
I started my working life as a GP and was co-founder of the first Health Center in the Netherlands in Rotterdam.
We eventually worked there with a team of about 30 people and our goal was a "coordinated health care" provided for the family. Therefore we had all the 'first line disciplines' in our center. The doctors worked together with district nurses, social workers, physiotherapists, nutritionists, psychologists and midwives.
It was a great experiment and we were well known as such.
One of the key elements of our approach was that it was a coordinated and integrated one.
We
realized, from the start, that man is not a 'machine' to be "tweaked"
but a set of interdependent areas such as body, mind and emotions.
We also knew that you can not see a person as separate from his environment such as work, family and friends.
Finally,
we saw quickly that it is very important that a patient or client
realizes that he (she) has to cooperate and bear responsibility for his
(her) own well being.
After 7 exiting years, our evaluation of our project was that, in many ways, we were ahead of our time.
Taking
responsibility for our health in a consumer oriented society is not easy. No one has learned to see ourselves as
an integrated whole of body, emotions and spirit.
I
myself was, at one point, on a study trip to America. At the University of
California I met people with a similar integral vision which they called "Humanistic Medicine".
I also had a special experience, with a man who later would be my principal teacher, that gave a glimpse about the True Nature of us as human beings.
To
make a long story short, I myself decided to relocate to America not
only to work with these people but also to allow myself to go through a
learning process. Something like "healer heal thyself''.
I had to get to know and become responsible for my own patterns and 'stirrings' before I could help others.
It was there that I could also experiment a lot, even with the impact of
lifestyle factors on our life, such as nutrition, relaxation,
breathing, movement, meditation, etc.
I encountered
all aspects of myself in all these ways especially with the
aforementioned teacher who taught me much about life, healing and
spirituality.
I have been back in the Netherlands for a number of years and have assisted a lot of individuals in their life journeys, including Dutch celebrities.
I also worked for many companies such as Capgemini, TNT, Vodafone, Yacht, etc.
