We found complexity. We found each other. And now we would like to bring what we learned closer to clinical practice — for clinicians, for researchers, for clients, and for anyone curious about how things might be done differently.
Hanneke Feijs
Clinical psychologist & psychotherapist (BIG) · doctoral candidate, Radboud University / Donders Institute · senior lecturer in diagnostics, RINO Group Rotterdam · own practice Process & Patterns, Utrecht
Studied psychology and philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, completed clinical training in the Topklas programme of RINO Utrecht, and is trained in the Synergetic Navigation System under Günter Schiepek. Her doctoral research concerns the relationship between executive functioning, personality and psychopathology — studied through network analysis and the science of complex systems.
Gabrielle van Son
Senior researcher, GGZ Rivierduinen · Maastricht University · Parnassia
Obtained her doctorate on the epidemiology of eating disorders and now focuses on the connection between scientific research and everyday clinical practice — with particular interest in the common factors that operate in every therapy. Also trained in the Synergetic Navigation System under Günter Schiepek.
scientific adviser & patron
Prof. dr. Günter Schiepek
Considered internationally as one of the founding figures in the application of complexity science to psychotherapy. Collaborated for many years with Hermann Haken (synergetics) and founded the Institut für Synergetik und Psychotherapieforschung in Salzburg, where the Synergetic Navigation System was developed — an instrument that renders the self-organising course of a treatment visible from day to day. Standard works: Systemische Psychologie (with Strunk, 2006) and Integrative Psychotherapy (2015). He is associated with this platform as scientific adviser.
The platform begins small and grows entropically. We warmly invite colleagues from the Dutch and European complexity-in-psychology community to join — as speakers, members of a reading group, or co-authors of what comes next.