About Machiel

Machiel is a healing professional who loves to facilitate and realize dreams.

He is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist who has studied extensively and explored many healing traditions from around the world since the mid 90s. Machiel is also trained in the indigenous counseling technique of Africa, and is a gifted diviner.

Machiel loves dreams, and giving form to dreams, which has evolved into him being one of the world’s most recognized dream workers and international speakers on the subjects of dreams and depth psychological topics. His short CD on dreams is one of the best selling CDs on dreams of the last decade.

Machiel practices what he preaches, giving form to his own daytime and night time dreams. Based on a night time dream he founded the non-profit organization the Jung Society of Utah in 2009, and the online educational organization the Jung Platform in 2011. Machiel is a social entrepreneur who has won several awards from his local community, including the ‘influential cultural forces’ award. He was voted one of the ‘Enlightened Fifty’ by his community in Salt Lake City for his work benefiting the community.

Machiel has traveled to over 40 countries, lived in 4 continents for a year or more, and speaks several languages.

Machiel In the Media

Machiel’s best selling CD

Rumi and the World of Dream

TV

April 2015 : KUED / local PBS station : interview on the Jung Society event on Synchronicity (2.5 min)

Dec 2014 : KUED / local PBS station : interview on the Jung Society event with David Whyte (2.5 min)

Radio

We picked the best radio show per year of the dozens of radio interviews over the last several years:

2017: Interview by Robyn (GreenSmoothieGirl) – Interpreting your dreams

2016: Danielle Lin Show – What Really Happens When We Close Our Eyes to Rest? 

2015: ShrinkRapRadio – Dr. Dave interviews Machiel Klerk on ‘Dreams and Awareness‘ 

Magazines and newspapers

August 2017: Wellness Magazine: Dream Life- Click on August issue, article is on page 50. https://www.wellnesswarehouse.com/magazines/

Jan 2013: Catalyst Magazine: Machiel Klerk nominated for Calayst 100 – “100 people who have made Salt Lake City a more compassionate and vibrant place to live”.

Oct 2009 : Catalyst Magazine : How Machiel Klerk has started the Jung Society of Utah

Machiel Klerk’s dream work columns for the Catalyst Health Magazine:

December 2010 – The Symbolic Language of Dreams

January 2011 – A basic recipe to work with your own dreams

February 2011 – Late for Class Dreamlink

March 2011 – How Dreams Guide us toward Our Destiny

Blogs about Machiel Klerk

2017 – About African Divinations by Pamela Thompson

2016 – A conversation about dreams by Susan Mann

Articles on dreams by Machiel Klerk in pdf format.

2013: How To Work With a Nightmare (2 pages)

2012: Lucid Dreaming (2 pages)

Contact Machiel directly at machiel@machielklerk.com or +1-801-656-8806