{"id":888,"date":"2026-02-13T06:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dominicventer.com\/site\/?page_id=888"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:03:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicventer.com\/site\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"888\" class=\"elementor elementor-888\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-74c8868 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"74c8868\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-43e1a53\" data-id=\"43e1a53\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-246a0de\" data-id=\"246a0de\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b61c5c9\" data-id=\"b61c5c9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-ea4ac9f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ea4ac9f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-0dc6101\" data-id=\"0dc6101\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13140bbd elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"13140bbd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:0}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About Me<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45a317fc elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"45a317fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:150}\" 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>I have worked as a therapist, teacher, and facilitator since 1997 \u2014 across individual depth work, group processes, organisational contexts, and educational settings.<\/p><p>The through-line has always been the same question: what actually moves a life, beneath the level of intention and understanding?<\/p><p>Something of my own history sits behind this work. It may help to know it.<\/p><p>I grew up in South Africa during the apartheid years \u2014 in a bilingual, bi-religious household, surrounded by a social order built on separation, fear, and enforced hierarchy. That context made certain things viscerally clear at an early age: that systems shape people from the inside, that the inner life and the outer world are one question, and that real change \u2014 in a person, in a community \u2014 moves from the inside out.<\/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<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-7bfe5c5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7bfe5c5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-8396666\" data-id=\"8396666\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d1bfe4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4d1bfe4f\" 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 fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dominicventer.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20160808_174523-1-1-768x1161.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-759\" alt=\"Close-up of hands and wrist, a personal detail photo of Dominic Venter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dominicventer.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20160808_174523-1-1-768x1161.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dominicventer.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20160808_174523-1-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.dominicventer.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20160808_174523-1-1-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.dominicventer.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20160808_174523-1-1-600x907.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dominicventer.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20160808_174523-1-1.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\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\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-043200e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"043200e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-3fda4b1\" data-id=\"3fda4b1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4377cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e4377cd\" 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>These are the tenets from which the work grows, the ground that emerges from the abstract to the embodied present.<\/p><p>Consciousness, relationship, and meaning are the orienting themes. The capacity to stand in one\u2019s own light \u2014 and to face what resists \u2014 is both the central challenge and the central dignity of human life. The work returns to here, in whatever form it takes.<\/p><p style=\"font-style: italic;\">I am based in Sweden and work with individuals, couples, groups, and practitioners in supervision. Sessions are conducted in English, Swedish, and the gestural and symbolic language that is older than time.<\/p><p>If this resonates, the next step is a conversation. <a href=\"\/site\/contact\/\">Contact \u2192<\/a><\/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<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me I have worked as a therapist, teacher, and facilitator since 1997 \u2014 across individual depth work, group processes, organisational contexts, and educational settings. 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