{"id":601,"date":"2025-02-03T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metodojan.it\/who-we-are\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:08:21","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metodojan.it\/en\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Janine Van Der Merwe"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"601\" class=\"elementor elementor-601 elementor-99\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1997c84 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1997c84\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-813135d elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"813135d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" id=\"Janine\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Janine Van Der Merwe<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d84ef6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5d84ef6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f106ae4 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f106ae4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Janine Van Der Merwe was born in 1973, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, of Dutch, Scottish, German-Slavic origins. She currently lives in Friuli, a multi-ethnic region, like her origins, and mother of three children. Independent researcher of the Deep Self, facilitator, author and trainer in Ja Method Vagal Regulating Systemic Representations. <\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, she has been leading systemic work groups with an evolving methodology.<br>In 2012 she founded the association La Via dell&#8217;Albero (The Way of the Tree), whose purpose was to promote techniques and methodologies of energetic, naturopathic and eco-sustainable valence, where the growth and awareness acquired by each individual could contribute to the evolution of the community and its evolution in relation to its territory and the Earth. The experience allowed her to integrate in her work, a deep rootedness and to contact the resource of her multi-ethnic origins, African and Nordic, a union of two opposite worlds.<br>Since 2016 she has been teaching trainings for practitioners in every field, helping them to get in touch on the traumas stratified in the pre-cognitive period on an experiential level. With her first book, &#8220;The Natural Man and the Natural Woman,&#8221; published by BioGuide Editions in 2018, she brought to consciousness in her work, the insight into the e\ufb00ects of the adrenal womb, of transgenerational fear now fixed in women&#8217;s bodies, in the development of the embryo and consequently in the individual, recognizing the basis of the fragmentation of the Self and on a collective level, of a neurotic and alienated society.  <\/p>\n<p>A little over a year later he published &#8220;The Key to Time,&#8221; a further development of the previous book, linking the distorted and speeded-up perception of time precisely as a result of the adrenal womb; a collective of individuals fleeing from an enemy not real but present in the cell, already in gestational memory; the adrenal attack.<br>In 2021 his third book &#8220;Black and White: Life is in the Middle,&#8221; also published by BioGuide Editions, was released. In 2021, the third book \u201cIl bianco e il nero: la vita sta nel mezzo\u201d was released, also published by BioGuida Edizioni. An essay focused on gestation and birth, a simple and powerful text, on the rediscovery of the fundamental role in human evolution, of the sacredness of the passages, birth. From all this, \u201cRappresentazioni sistemiche Metodo Jan\u201d was born, because we are no longer talking about family constellations but about epigenetics applied to systemic representation, being able to work on cellular memory, in gestational and birth blocks. The etymological root of Jan comes from the native Sanskrit language, from which our Indo-European languages originate and means \u201cThe creative spirit that is born from the Waters\u201d. <br><br><br>Since 2022, Janine Van Der Merwe, has reconnected with her African roots by experiencing traditional therapies in Senegal. In parallel, she has brought Stephen Porges&#8217; polyvagal theory and its applications at the body level more and more into her work, thanks to these very experiences. She is currently in the process of publishing her fourth book, with the publishing house Elybra.  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40de906 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"40de906\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/metodojan.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/metodo-jan-1-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-563\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metodojan.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/metodo-jan-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metodojan.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/metodo-jan-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metodojan.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/metodo-jan-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/metodojan.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/metodo-jan-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metodojan.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/metodo-jan-1.jpg 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c821f05 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c821f05\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bbbba12 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bbbba12\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Training<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c7cc8f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c7cc8f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>My primary training stems from Bert Hellinger&#8217;s systemic family constellations, trained with Marco Massignan and Elena Dell&#8217;Orto.<br>They integrated into the work of constellations, body release trauma resolution, taking from Trauma Working and Peter Levine&#8217;s Somatic Experience. The tool of family constellations is a gateway to the &#8220;conscious field,&#8221; and based on the experiences of the conductor, different information can be accessed.<br>The integration of my multi-ethnic backgrounds, have become my great asset in accommodating trauma and experiences from around the world. My travels to Africa and having worked for groups made up of individuals from many foreign countries such as India, Myamar, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ivory Coast, Bolivia, etc., has given me both on a human and anthropological level, a rich culture of experience on a variety of traumatic forms, including very serious ones.  <\/p>\n<p>Later I integrated trainings with Michel Odent, surgeon and obstetrician, pioneer of physiological birth, and Ruth Ehrardht, South African traditional midwife. In recent years I have had anthropological experiences with Senegalese traditional healers, whose African wisdom is blended with knowledge of polyvagal theory applied in body release and vagal regulation. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janine Van Der Merwe Janine Van Der Merwe was born in 1973, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, of Dutch, Scottish, German-Slavic origins. She currently lives in Friuli, a multi-ethnic region, like her origins, and mother of three children. Independent researcher of the Deep Self, facilitator, author and trainer in Ja Method Vagal Regulating Systemic Representations. 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