Daan van Kampenhout

Daan van Kampenhout (* 1963 ) is a Dutch author , therapist , singer and artist . From his experience with various indigenous cultures and their shamanic rituals, with his Jewish faith and practice with systemic constellation work , he has the systemic ritual work ( Systemic ritual developed). He offers international advanced training in this method, which is mainly used in group settings, for systemically working workshop leaders and therapists who are oriented towards depth psychology .

Life

As part of his studies of the fine arts in the Netherlands, van Kampenhout devoted himself to the design of shamanic costumes and props, which he also dealt with in his thesis. After graduating in 1987, he initially taught fine arts in Finland and the Netherlands , but soon also offered international training groups for shamanic work. Here he drew from his experience with the healing work of his traditional and neo-shamanic teachers (especially the Lakota and Sami ). Ailo Gaup was one of his teachers . Van Kampenhout does not see himself as a shaman, but as a therapist and trainer who applies and passes on shamanic knowledge. Against this background, he got to know systemic sculpture and constellation work in 1998 , which he himself used in his practice for shamanism and rituals in Amsterdam, founded in 1993, and in his international workshops, and which he increasingly combined with his resource-oriented approach to shamanic rituals. Alongside Hunter Beaumont , he is one of those therapists who made the classic constellation work according to Bert Hellinger known in the English-speaking world, although van Kampenhout later distanced himself from Hellinger.

In his music Kampenhout combines Hasidic chants and prayers with shamanic melodies and rhythms. Singing and rhythm primarily have a therapeutic purpose and should help the client to open up to the unconscious. Some of his Jewish songs were accompanied by the Graz psychotherapist Aron Saltiel, who is a descendant of the Sephardim expelled from Spain in 1492 , and who also uses his Sephardic singing for therapeutic purposes. Van Kampenhout's latest album is again dedicated entirely to ritual shamanic music. According to him, the melodies of his songs often come from his own dreams.

The focus of Kampenhout's therapeutic work is his wheel of the four directions , which goes back to the Lakota medicine wheel and stands for a cyclical worldview. It structures his ritual work and enables a connection to the orientation in the living space and in the transcendent to be established through an orientation in physical space. The wheel can help to clarify the organization of one's own memories, wishes and orientations, but also the relationship to one's own family or ancestors. Van Kampenhout, in turn, combines various elements of sculpture work with shamanic work. Both the ritual procedure and the conscious work with the room combine.

Van Kampenhout's system-theoretical identity model is also based on the wheel of the four directions or the wheel of souls . It assumes that there are four different systems that shape us (partly consciously, partly unconsciously) in our identification. These are the soul of our family of origin ("family soul"), the soul of the social groups to which we belong ("tribal soul"), our individual soul and the universal soul (or "collective soul") that includes everything. Each of these souls is associated with specific resources and challenges. In systemic rituals one can connect with them or face them.

In addition to his therapeutically oriented work, van Kampenhout is still active as an artist.

Van Kampenhout lives and works today mainly in Amsterdam and Berlin. He closed his practice a few years ago. Today he only offers group and supervision work.

Publications

Books:

• The healing comes from outside. Shamanism and family bodies . Carl Auer Verlag , Heidelberg 2001.
• I let myself be found. How my dream partner comes to me . Carl-Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 2003.
• Healing rituals: improving quality of life . Schirner Verlag , Freiburg 2007.
• The tears of the ancestors. Victims and perpetrators in the collective soul . Carl-Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 2008.
• The four directions . Sine Causa Verlag, Berlin 2017.

Music:

• Altar. Shamanic trance. 1996.
• Kusjanga. Wordless Shamanic Prayer Songs. 2001.
• Walk Around the Sun. Jewish and Shamanic Music for Trance, Prayer and Ritual. 2008.
• Samuch (side by side). Melodies Learned in Dreams. A Blend of Shamanic and Chassidic Elements. 2010.
• Athalbero. Wordless Shamanic Singing Recorded Live During Rituals, Trances and Healing Ceremonies. 2017.

literature

Vera Griebert-Schröder: A journey to the ancestors: Shamanic ways to your own roots. Ullstein / Allegria, Berlin 2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Daan van Kampenhout in the catalog of the German National Library
• Daan van Kampenhout

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Daan van Kampenhout: Becoming a Jew in: The Philadelphia Jewish Voice , April / May 2009 edition
2. ↑ It should be noted in this context that in Austria, for example, the combination of psychotherapy and shamanism has been banned since 2014 due to many consumer complaints, see Austrian guideline forbid esoteric methods in psychotherapy , in: Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen, Materialdienst 12/2014.
3. ↑ See The Systemic Web: Daan van Kampenhout , Daan van Kampenhouts website and cited literature
4. ↑ For example the song "Into the World" from the album "Walk Around the Sun"
5. ↑ See biography of Ariel Saltiel at last.fm
6. ↑ See also: Official website of Aron Saltiel
7. ↑ An overview of his previous albums with some explanations can be found here .
8. ↑ Depending on the context, the four directions can stand for very different phases of life or qualities, in the simplest case for the four seasons or times of day (cf. the book of the same name).
9. ↑ See Ursula Baatz : Spirituality, Religion, Weltanschauung: Maps for systemic work. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, p. 169
10. ↑ Renate Tewes: Leadership skills can be learned: practical knowledge for managers in health professions . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-12649-9 , pp. 176 .
11. ↑ See the chapter of the same name in Daan van Kampenhout's The Tears of the Ancestors. Victims and perpetrators in the collective soul . Carl-Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 2008.
12. ↑ Cf. Michael Paul Gollmer: Kampenhouts Identity Model , in: The Influence of Trauma Consequences and Early Childhood Attachment on Identity Finding Processes . Campus Naturalis, Berlin 2016, pp. 23–26
13. ↑ At an exhibition in Berlin in 2019, he dealt with the topic of masculinity in the change of time and raised the question of how fictional reincarnations of Germanic deities could show and behave in the gay scene of today's Berlin.
14. ↑ See contact page Daan van Kampenhout