Interview with Cees van Loom: Co-organizer of the 2014 Core Energetics International Leadership Conference

Cees van Loom and Klaus Stinshoff were two of the driving forces behind this year's Core Conference in Germany.  

Kristina caught up with Cees to ask a few questions how the conference came about and what future plans may lie on the horizon. 

Can you describe the events leading up to making the decision to realize the International Conference?

The decision to organize a Core Conference was taken during a director's meeting last year at the Wisdom House, New York. Klaus and I were part of the group that shared a vision about a "Core World Wide" movement. We both felt out strong passion to manifest a conference in order to reconnect Core people from all over the world. After John's death, for me it felt that the Core community fell apart and fragmented. My personal mission was to recreate the circle that I experienced so much before John's death.

Pleasure has always been a main component of Core Energetics (and knowing you as I do) I can imagine that bringing this together was a labor of love.  Were there many obstacles? 

Indeed. I experienced the cooperation with Klaus as a continuous act of love, brotherhood and friendship. I also felt very supported by the directors of the Institutes (like Jorge Galindo, Warren Moe, Lisa Loustenau, Ann Bradney, Brian & Marcia Gleason and Anna Timmermans). They created a space for us in which we could work and prepare the Conference. In this great atmosphere we didn't experience any obstacles and had such pleasure in preparing the Conference.

I recall when we were students at the New York Institute, hearing conversations about there being no cohesive worldwide community. How does it feel to have finally begun to fulfill this dream?

What are your plans for bringing more of the Core community into the next international conference?

Personally I have no plans, because it's now in the Directors' hands. A huge step was made as a result of the directors meeting; they decided to continue exchanges, to share knowledge, to continue to share Core all over the world, to support diversity and so on. The willingness to cooperate is never so big as now. For me it felt like many old wounds were healed.

And to answer another part of your question: yes, there will be a next Conference in two years time, in Italy where also alumni and students will be invited! The directors will continue and have annual meetings; next year in August.

Besides your vision of Core Energetics being connected worldwide, what is your vision on the ways to improve the popularity of this most important work?    

Here is my list:

   · Work every day on improving quality standards.

   · Allow different modalities to grow (like EMM, Radical Aliveness).

   · Encourage cross-pollination between Institutes and Continents.

   · Give Core a stronger scientific base

      (Brazil has a University where Core is part of the Bachelors program).

   · Raise funds to support people from minority groups to enter the Core        program.

   · Transform the current Core training programs in a way that they are not       only accessible for (future) therapists but also for business people.

   · Write and publish articles in books and magazines.

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