Some more details about Lucas Derks

After been born on november 19, 1950, his family moved in februari of 1951 from Oosterbeek to Utrecht. He has a two years older sister. His early results at school were bothersome. His father who was a skilled technician died in 1959. After printing school (diploma 1968) he went to the Art School (diploma 1973). Within that period he was very actively involved in mountaineering and from 1970 on, also in running, he is still practicing both sports.
From 1973 upto 1976 he was teaching drawing and painting at the `De Werkschuit' Zeist/Bilthoven. He followed a didactical training. From age ten on his talent in the visual arts had been the guiding line. He was mainly painting in oil and tempera: solo exposition in 1980 and 1983.
From approximately 1970 on he developed a stong interest in psychology and started a full time study social psychology in 1976; masters degree 1982. Spend six months in Africa during his university years. Thesis on pragmatism. He became acquaintent with the work of Bandler and Grinder (NLP) in march 1977. Followed in 1983 a NLP practitioners training with the New York training Institute for NLP; 1985 NLP masters training at the Institute for Eclectic Psychology in Nijmegen Holland. From 1982 active as a therapist on the base of NLP. From 1980 to 1986 also working as a researcher for several important Dutch art museums (Het Rijksmuseum; Het Centraal museum, Van Gogh museum; Maritiem museum Prins Hendrik) subject: Visitor behaviour at large expositions. In 1986 he choose to devote himself exclusively to NLP and related things. Then he co-founded The William James Foundation, that was dissoved in 2006. He published a novel that was awarded in 1992 and an other novel in 2009. Lucas wrote about seven psychology books. He teamed up with the Dutch NLP trainers Jaap Hollander and Anneke Durlinger. Ever since he doing free-lance jobs as a trainer at the Stichting voor Educatieve en Therapeutische Hypnose; SON Opleidingen BV te Eindhoven; Instituut voor Eclectische Psychologie and many other places in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungaria, Finland, Suriname, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, England, New Zealand, Poland, Greece, Croatia, Malta and Austria. From 1993 on, he became involved in the develeopement of new methods in the field of social systems: The Social Panorama. The connection between the pragmatic field of NLP with social psychology has become his mayor activity over the last decade.

Lucas can be contacted: info@sociaalpanorama.nl