If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” — Isaac Newton
Dr. Harold Koning and Professor Bruno Cruicchi know how to live life on the edge!
Tropical Thunder punctuated the atmosphere in the small patch of jungle in the western suburb of Ft. Lauderdale. Bruno Cruicchi and I were visiting Dr. Harold Koning, an old friend, and fellow silat practitioner. Guru Harold’s resume, taken from online sources, reads like this -
"Harold Koning, Ph.D., MSW, M.Ed., C.Ht., is the founder of Dynamic Wellness Strategies. He is a Life, Wellness and Career Coach. His background is in Social Psychology, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Qi Gong. Dr. Koning has 22 years of international experience as a seminar leader, motivational speaker, and trainer of trainers. His motto: "I practice what I teach."
Dr. Koning’s work style is an integration of Mind-Body Medicine, NLP, Humanistic Psychology, Trans-personal Psychology, Guided Affective Imagery, Kinesiology, and humor.
He has a work and research history in Europe, the Caribbean, South America and the United States. Dr. Koning has been featured in the book, "Turning Dreams Into Success", and has produced his first CD titled, "Stress Repair".
In addition, Guru Harold is a former boxer, kickboxer, black belt in Dutch Kenpo, and practitioner of Mustika Kwitang Silat. His fitness level and conditioning would put a high school athlete to shame. He is skilled in native Surinamese-African dance, as well as being a gifted musician with a specialty in percussion and Flamenco guitar. He speaks English, Spanish, Dutch, varieties of Creole, and a few more languages. He never stops learning, training, or teaching. He just never stops. His musical instruments are as heavily used as his heavy bag, weights, jump rope, blades, and bicycle.
The conversation moved through martial arts to healing, spirituality, culture, travel, language, weaponry, meditation, stress relief, fitness, street life, music, dance, sociology and magic. Demonstrations of blade work, elevation change, footwork, impact weapons, acupuncture points, base distruption, and energy attacks were part of the flow of communication. What was normal to us would be mysterious to outsiders. It’s days like these that you feel good to be alive.
Both Harold Koning and Bruno Cruicchi will be part of the Miami Pencak Silat group. Stay tuned for much more to come.
To contact Dr. Harold Koning, go to his webpage at - http://mind-bodystrategies.com/
