About Vincent
A fellow traveller, not a guru.
To give you a feeling for what CHOICEpoint is and the potential it holds... I’m going to have to share a bit of my story and the path that led here.
The pivotal moment that set me on this path
My own journey began a few weeks before my ninth birthday. I grew up in a home shaped by alcohol, violence and fear, and by the age of eight I was caring for my three younger siblings whenever my parents couldn’t.
One Christmas Eve, at my most desperate, I decided to end my life, imagining that it would be the perfect solution to the stress and fear I faced each day, and that it would miraculously make my parents change. Having totally surrendered to my fate, I felt a sense of calm I had never known... I had unknowingly entered a space of truth beyond the story and could clearly see how my death would play out.
That first moment of clarity gave me the strength to face my life and the determination never to run from fear again. More importantly, it made me realise that if I turned inward, I could find the guidance and answers I needed.
That realisation set me on the path to freedom from my own suffering, and eventually to helping others find theirs. Over time, that inner guidance stripped away the layers of my identity based in Need, Fear and Control, allowing me to ‘tune into’ an intuitive wisdom that gave me insight into what I call ‘The Structures of Creation’, and into the natural process by which we ascend through layers of perceptive awareness, slowly remembering our true nature and purpose for being.
I spent decades trying to articulate this incredible process that I could see so clearly in my mind. It took a few destructive relationships, and fathering three incredible children, to help me apply and integrate these insights before I could transmit them clearly and simply, in a format that could be applied by anyone who is suffering... not just those who have already stepped onto a more ‘spiritual’ path.
For the past twenty years, I have used this natural process to guide people out of chronic states of addiction, mental and emotional disorder, and disease. Living alone with these clients for three to six months at a time, some of them violent and abusive, gave me the opportunity to fully integrate these insights into my way of being, and to practise staying fully present and connected to my intuitive guidance.
The CHOICEpoint Framework
The CHOICEpoint Framework is the distilled essence of that process of integration. It is not a belief system to adopt, but a practical return to functionality and a deeper understanding of the energetic structure that we perceive as reality. It is built on a few core principles:
Suffering is not punishment; it is feedback, showing us where we are still identified with ancestral and conditioned patterns and not aligned with the deeper truth of all that we are.
You are not the Mind. You are the awareness observing the patterns play out in physical reality. As we align the conscious Mind with our ‘higher’ awareness, it becomes a mechanism for conscious creation that dissolve destructive patterns that cause suffering and prevent us from experiencing our true nature.
In every emotional trigger there is a Single Point of Influence: the moment we become aware that we are in effect. In that moment we either react and create more of the same, or we pause, process, and consciously choose how we want to respond.
Awareness + Self-Discipline = Self-Healing, Self-Worth, Self-Love.
From there, we follow the Golden Thread beneath the story to the core belief driving it, and transmute the emotional charge rather than suppress or project it. In this process, the body and the identity become mirrors that reflect imbalance in the system, and suffering becomes the guide to a more empowered and purposeful life.
The intention is simple:
- To help people break free of destructive patterns
- To empower them to heal themselves at every level
- To reconnect them with their own inner guidance and intuitive wisdom
- To dissolve the ancestral and conditioned patterns that cause suffering, so that they can remember and embody the truth of all that they are
The broader vision
While the chronic work is where the framework was forged, the broader vision lives in relationship and community. Our programmes focus on the dualistic structures of creation that play out between the Masculine and Feminine Principles: Sacred Union, Conscious Parenting and Relating Consciously. Relationship is where our deepest patterns surface, and where each generation can hand on a little less of what it inherited if we understand the purpose of procreation.
Where we are now
- The Well-Being Sanctuary in Sedgefield, South Africa, where we run retreats and conscious festivals.
- The CHOICEpoint House in South Africa, where we run intensive one-on-one residential journeys of three to six months.
- The CHOICEpoint Re-Set Lounge in Bahrain, where people can come to connect, recharge, and change their lives.
- Guide and coach training programmes in Europe and the Middle East, with growing communities in South Africa and the Netherlands, both working towards permanent CHOICEpoint Centres.
- The CHOICEpoint online course, making the core framework accessible to anyone.
“Separated in form to create an effect, but eternally connected and bound in purpose.”
This quote perfectly sums up my life’s work and my intention for this very important time in the human story. If we are to rise above the story playing out in the world at present, we must Connect, Collaborate and Co-Create.
CHOICEpoint exists to awaken human consciousness to its full potential.