- Programme leader and trainerKepner-Tregoe Problem Solving and Decision Making
- NLP trainerIntercultural NLP
- Miksang practitionerOver ten years, meditation in action
- DeveloperThe bagua overlay on the ISE model
Henk Melching
Trainer, programme leader, and the person who keeps asking what you actually saw
Henk trains coaches to see what happened before deciding what it means. Two disciplines sit underneath that, and they come from further apart than they look.
He's a programme leader and trainer in Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving and Decision Making, the analytic method used to separate what's known from what's assumed when something has gone wrong and the room is full of theories. It's rigorous, structured, and unsentimental about the difference between evidence and hunch.
He's also spent more than ten years in Miksang practice, the contemplative discipline of perceiving before conceiving, in the tradition of Chögyam Trungpa's meditation in action. That one runs the other way: no method, no conclusion, just the discipline of staying available long enough for something to arrive on its own.
Coaches are trained to close the gap fast. Both of these traditions, from opposite ends, teach the same thing: stay in the not-knowing until you actually know.
As an NLP trainer working in intercultural NLP, he's spent years on what happens to meaning when it crosses a language and a culture. That work sits directly behind a rule in the training: coaches make their observations in their own first language, always, because the half second of translation is exactly long enough for a story to form.
The longer background
Over several decades Henk developed a synthesis of Daoist knowledge, strategic thinking and western developmental models. He combined the ISE model — grounded in Shell's anthropological research and worked out by Bert Juch and J.C. Dalhuijsen — with the Daoist bagua.
The aim was to make the learning model wordless and body-led. Where the ISE model works through concepts and categories, the bagua offers an energetic map that meets experience directly, without needing language to hold the essence in place.
That work took thirty years and it isn't what gets taught here. It stays where it belongs: in the background, informing the design, mentioned once when a coach describes something it would have named. What gets taught is the practice.