Farooq Malik, Jacqueline Wijtenburg and Gunnar Gabriel came together around a shared curiosity about human experience, relational life, and the deeper structures that shape both. While each of them has followed a distinct path, their collaboration provides a touchstone for inquiry, dialogue, and exploration. Together, they cultivated a space where complexity, presence, and relational insight emerge, leaving a lasting imprint on their individual practices.
Farooq Malik
Farooq Malik
Where the Personal Meets the Field
There is a terrain in each of us where memory, longing, culture, and spirit converge, forming the quiet architecture of a life. My work begins in listening to this inner landscape, and to the deeper patterns that give it shape: the stories we inherit, the lenses we see through, the relational fields we inhabit and co-create.
My path has woven through the structured world of data and systems, and the intimate realms of therapy and contemplative practice. One taught me about the visible frameworks that organize our outer lives; the other revealed the vast, invisible frameworks that organize our inner world. This dialogue between the structural and the soulful informs everything I do.
Authentic Field is an invitation into this layered awareness. It is a practice of meeting life from a place of inquiry, where insight emerges through shared dialogue, complexity becomes fertile ground, and a more grounded, connected way of being can take form. It is an exploration of what becomes possible when we attend not only to our own experience, but to the space between us, the field where our shared humanity awakens.
Email me:
farooq.malik.ca@gmail.com
Jacqueline Wijtenburg
I am devoted to the discovery of many dimensions of intelligence within each person and within groups. Intelligence that is expressed through thought, emotion, bodily experience, intuition, relationships and culture. My work with individuals and with groups of people is centred on containing these different perspectives, interests and needs and helping make sense of them. Freedom flows from there.
Across these settings, I have become increasingly attentive to what allows the intelligence within overlooked or marginalised voices to come forward and contribute to collective wellbeing. Within a person, this may mean making room for an unfamiliar feeling or a part of themselves that has struggled to find expression. Within a group, it may mean listening to someone whose perspective carries little influence or whose legitimate belonging feels insecure.
My life has unfolded in both planned and mystical ways, deepening my curiosity and capacity to stay present with what emerges. I move between reflection and action with others, adjusting my contribution as we discover what is needed within a person’s inner world or in our shared life together.
I live in South Africa and have completed my professional training in applied psychology, with HPCSA registration as a Registered Counsellor pending my board examination results. I am also a certified journalist and a Chartered Public Relations Practitioner. My earlier work as a Postural Integration Practitioner, under the auspices of the European Association of Body Psychotherapy, cultivated my capacity.
Email me: jacquelinewijtenburg@gmail.com
Gunnar Gabriel
Gunnar Gabriel is an interdisciplinary psychologist, philosopher and theologian based in Oslo, Norway. He earned his PhD in theology from the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo, focusing on the cosmology and spirituality of the Church father Maximus the Confessor in light of issues in contemporary ecotheology. He has practiced psychotherapy for over ten years in private practice and supports people to unfold their inherent divino-human potential to become who they truly are.
Email me:
ggjermundsen@gmail.com
