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AUTHOR'S PROFESSIONAL PAGE Professional journey When I was in fourth grade in a suburb of Amsterdam, the school newspaper published a brief story I had written about church people serving in a village in South East Asia. It was a indication of things to come.  When I graduated from the Gymnasium in The Netherlands, I knew I wanted to be a helping professional. I chose medicine, but was denied a spot thanks to a national academic lottery. My next three choices were theology, cultural anthropology and psychology. I selected theology with chaplaincy as a vague career goal.  I wound up in Claremont CA which (with Howard Clinebell) was then the hub of the pastoral counseling world. By then experiences with Latinx in Texas and Arizona had awakened a cross-cultural fascination in me which was strenghtened by a CPE experience at Hawaii State (Mental) Hospital and an interim pastorate on one of the most remote Native reservations in the US. Back in The Netherlands