ANNA TIMMERMANS is director of the Dutch Institute Cordium Core Evolutionary (NICE). Since 1982 she is a methods teacher and has her own practice. Anna is certified by the European Certification of Psychotherapy. She followed the Bio Energetics Analysis training and is trained in Core Energetics by John Pierrakos. She is co-owner of Cordium, center for growth and development in Nijmegen. Anna teaches also in Mexico, New York and California. Her passion is to train Core Energetic therapists and to develop Core Energetics as an autonomous method of therapy in the Netherlands.
STUART BLACK has been director of the New York Institute
of Core Energetics since 1989. In addition to teaching
students in the New York training, Stuart also teaches
master classes to the faculty. He is the author of: ''A Way
of Life: Core Energetics'' and ''A Way of Life with
Another''. Stuart was teaching in differtent trainings en
schools, such as Pathwork Studies Program and the
Barbara Brennan School of Healing. He is a master in helping
people finding their own truth. Stuart created Core
Energetic Communities where students can safely work and
engage with eachother on a deep level. ''Life is a journey
to God. It is made infinitely more difficult and infinitely
more rewarding by taking this journey with others. That is
why I believe the community aspect of the Core Energetics
process is so important''.
KLAUS STINSHOFF has his own Core Energetics psychotherapy practice since 1987. He was trained in Core Energetics by John Pierrakos, founder of the New York Core Energetics Institute. He lives and works in Berlin and is specialized in working with clients dealing with cancer. Klaus is a surgeon, psychotherapist and sexual therapist. He loves to address people in their loving core and to inspire them to grow in their own capacity to love.
WARREN MOE is director at the New York Core Energetics Institute. He helds a private practice and leads process groups in New York City. A former fitness instructor, Warren brings a level of compassion and empathy to his work that touches, comforts and supports his clients and students in a unique way. Warren teaches internationally.
LISA LOUSTAUNAU is director of Core Energetics Connecticut
and assistant director at the New York Institute of Core
Energetics. Lisa trains Core Energetics practitioners in
Brazil, Australia and the United States. She also works in
her private practice in Norwalk Connecticut, where she
fosters the growth of individuals, couples, and groups. Lisa
is also an Ordained Spiritual Counselor and a registered
Hypnotherapist bringing passion and presence to her work.
ANN BRADNEY is director of the Radical Aliveness Core Energetics Institute of Southern California. She studied under Core Energetics founder John Pierrakos. She teaches internationally. Ann's Radical Aliveness model expands the concepts and principles of Core Energetics beyond individual, personal work to address group/community healing and world issues.
LIZ CARL is a social worker and has been a Core Energetics
therapist since 1990. She is an addictions counselor and an
EMDR practitioner. She is a senior faculty member and
supervisor at the Institute of Core Energetics. Besides
working with individuals, couples and groups around trauma
and addiction issues, Liz often works with people in the
arts, with infertility and parenting issues, and with the
gay and lesbian community.
BRIAN GLEASON is a senior faculty member of the New York Institute of Core Energetics. He has been practicing psychotherapy since 1978 and is licensed in the state of New York. Brian, along with his wife Marcia, has a particular interest in working with committed relationships. Together they developed the model of Exceptional Marriage Mentoring, which brings Core Energetics together with relationship therapy.
JORGE GALINDO is the director of CORPORE Institute in Mexico City. His calling as therapist nurtures in two main paths. As body psychotherapist he has been trained in Bioenergetic Analysis in the Wilhelm Reich Institute. Later he graduated as Core Energetics therapist in the first generation given by John Pierrakos in Mexico City. Also he is trained as Hakomi Method practitioner. In the other path, he has made a master Degree in Humanistic Psychology and done a certification in Gestalt therapy. Both paths have integrated as a way of life, and have been enriched by the practice of meditation.
JOACHIM VIEREGGE was born in 1939 at Berlin. He studied German Literature, Geography and Politics and then became a teacher, a profession he is in until today. In 1983 Joachim started a psychotherapeutic practice in Munich where he first worked with Gestalt and later on with Bioenergetics and Life Energy Therapy (Sabetti). He is ECP certified. Joachim was in the first European training for Core Energetics with John Pierrakos. Joachim has a broad repertoire and works with Shiatsu, psychospiritual energy-healing-work of "Etherikos" and the family-constellation-work, which he learned from Bert Hellinger. Joachim published a book in 2003: "Das Selbstwertgefühl. Urspung, Verletzung. Heilung." Over a period of ten years he was staff member of a psychiatric hospital; and since 1986 he teaches at the Odenwald-Institute near Heidelberg in Germany. According to his mother, the first word he spoke, was "Licht" (light). And, as Joachim states: "Indeed, God`s light is what guides me.''
PATRICIA HAMAN works as a Core Energetic therapist in Delaware. Also she is Licensed Professional Counselor of Mental Health. She studied dream analysis, object relations analysis, and is certified in Holotropic Breathwork Facilitation and Core Energetics. She teaches at Wilmington University and works in her private practice for adults and children.
EVELYN STIERLE is a Core Energetic therapist with a private practice in Germany. After her graduation in 1991 she assisted John Pierrakos in his trainings. In her work she integrates education in Medial Trance, Prana Breath Work, Pathwork studies and eastern spirituality. Evelyn has been leading groups to mystical places in India and Tibet and is co-founder of a non-profit organisation which is running a school in a remote area of India. She practiced meditation during retreats in the Himalayas, met Indian masters and got initiated by Tibetan Buddhist teachers. She considers both - the Himalayas as well as New York City - as her home. Her work is inspired by the spirit that grows within the space where East and West meet. Evelyn’s passion is to work on integration and creating opportunities to experience the reality and essence of the Higher Self.
JEANNEKE KEMPEN has completed different professional trainings such as: group work and supervision, directive therapy, bonding training, massage and meditation and the professional training of the Dutch Bio Energetics Analysis Institute. She served for a long time in the addiction treatment field, where she led trauma groups and helped setting up day programs. She also worked in the youth health care sector and is still offering supervision work there. She has a Core Energetics psychotherapy practice for the past ten years and teaches in a body-oriented training for stress prevention and burn out prevention.
THOMAS ACH is musician, teacher, composer, nonmedical
practitioner and body oriented therapist. After his music
studies at the Richard Strauss Conservatorium in Munich, his
passion for rhythm and drumming made him travel to Morocco,
India, Nepal, Bali, Cuba and, above all, to his second home
Brazil. Looking for the sounds of these music cultures, he
studied rhythm as the connecting element of drumming,
dancing and singing. On the basis of body experience he has
taught music for 25 years in Europe, India, Mexico and the
US.
ACHIEL VAN TIENEN worked in different fields of the health sector for 20 years. In his own personal search, he came in contact with Core Energetics and it grabbed him, because it brought him freedom of movement. Literally - because of his diminishing back problems that had been recurrent - and by way of speaking. Achiel studied Core Energetics at the Berlin Institute and opened his own practice in 2001 in Huissen and Nijmegen. He works with individual clients, groups and couples, leads workshops. In addition, he teaches, is supervisor and gives 'learning therapy' for students in the Core Energetics training. He considers his own body as the compass to work by and his passion is to unleash and uncover the great potential that everybody beholds. Achiel: "I work in Core Energetics with my body, my heart and my soul."
INGRID GROENEN works as a healer, therapist and coach. Her drive is to do justice to what is genuine and precious in people and to allow them to fully develop their inherent qualities. After a degree in cultural anthropology, she trained at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing in Miami and has worked for the past 25 years as international trainer and adviser. With Tuffie Vos, she is the co-founder and head teacher of the School of Life, a four year training in Amsterdam for growth, awareness, healing and reading. Her great passion is leading people to unity in contact with themselves and to transform the obstacles that stand in the way of this contact.
MAJA LUKAČ is a Core Energetic therapist since graduating in 1995. She left her former profession as a scientist (microbiologist) and followed the way of her heart. Ever since she coaches individuals, couples and groups to become aware of their real needs and fullfill them in their everyday life, here and now - manifesting love, integrity and creativity. Having grown up and lived in different countries herself, she is sensible to cultural backgrounds and their effects on personal development. Together with her husband she moved from Germany to the beautiful Greek island of Crete, where they are offering healing sessions for people who need a 'time-out“ to redesign their lives and are in search for new solutions and visions.
MELISSA ALACHEFF is a Director and CO-Founder of CORE London. She trained at the Core Energetic Institute in New York and has a private practice in London. She incorporates her passion and knowledge of pilates, yoga, dance and acting into her work. She is active in helping make Core Energetics accessible to people through fundraising for scholarship funds. Melissa loves spreading this work and making connections with communities around the globe. She holds retreats and workshops in London, Cape Town, Tuscany and Istanbul.
MARGREET SMIT has been working in her holistic practice Corekracht since 1997. During her illness - Сhronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) - she went in search of healing. In the process she experienced first hand how body and mind are inextricably linked. Margreet is educated in various disciplines connected with bodywork like Shiatsu, Tui Na massage, Nei en Integra. In 2008 she finished her studies as a Core Energetics therapist at NICE and now she is a teacher in the transformation training. Margreet co-creates and leads workshops in core energetics on a regular basis with colleagues. Her passion is to work with people from heart to heart.
DIRK MARIVOET is a licensed Physical Therapist (MSc, PT) and a Psychomotor Therapist. For 11 years he worked as a psychomotor therapist in the Psychiatric Centres of Leuven Univerity. In 1994 he founded the Institute for Bodymind Integration - 'ES'-Center in Ghent (B). He has been working as a full-time psychotherapist since then. Dirk is trained in Core-Energetics and Bodymind Integration (Postural Integration, Energetic Integration-Reichian Therapy and Pelvic-Heart Integration) and operates internationally as teacher/trainer and supervisor. Besides that he is initiated in the Lakota sweat lodge tradition of Archie Fire Lame Deer and he is also a ceremonial firewalk instructor.