Academia

• (Buddhist) chaplain (MDiv) at Upaya Zen Center (US)
• Board certified spiritual caregiver at RING-GV and member of VGZV (NL)
• Postgraduate degree in bereavement and loss counselling at Artevelde Hogeschool (BE)

• Ethical referent at the Postgraduate Centre Leuven (BE)

• Socially engaged buddhist training at Upaya Zen Center (US)
• One-year residency - Clinical Pastoral Education - as a full-time (Buddhist) chaplain in New Orleans (US)
• Second-year fellowship as a full-time (Buddhist) chaplain in New Orleans (US)
• Multidisciplinary Certificate in Paediatric Palliative Care, CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care (US)
• Essentials of Palliative Care Chaplaincy Certificate, CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care (US)
• Certificate in Medical Ethics, NextGenU (UK)
• Trajectories in psychoanalysis at UGent (BE), nursing at Vives Kortrijk (BE)
  

Non-academia

•  Two decades of apprenticeship with local priests and facilitators from the Amazon and Andes: Miguel Kavlin (BO), Hector Ahuanari (PE), Benjamin Mahua (PE), Apolinar Ramos (BO)
• Kambo facilitator training at Katukina community (BR)
• Death doula training at Inelda (US)
• Ashtanga yoga teacher training with Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor (US) 
• Pranayama teacher training with Shri O.P. Tiwariji (IN)
• Practice of several mystical movements: Sikhism (Babaji Baldev Singh (IN)), Advaita Vedanta (Vidwan Vijava Manja (IN)), Dzogchen (Namkhai Norbu (TI)), Tibetan Buddhism (Drubpon Lama Tenzin Sangpo (FR)), Zen Buddhism (multiple teachers), shamanism
• Ordination to bodhisattva in the lineage of Deshimaru by abbot Taiun Jean-Pierre Faure (FR)
• Ordination to bodhisattva in the Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order by Roshi Joan Halifax (USA)
• Ordination to chaplain-lay priest in the Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order by Roshi Joan Halifax (USA)
• Basic training as a healthcare clown with Tom Roos and Clownsense (BE)
• End-of-life story writer at Amfora (BE)
• Ceremony speaker training at Rebel Coach Academy (BE)
• Harm reduction for entheogens training at Iceers (ES)
• Mindfulness teacher training with Sean fargo (US)

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