Hannah Nathans

Nathans was born in 1944 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Hannah is of Jewish Patrilineal descent.

Nathans worked for the Dutch government as a policymaker, trainer, and consultant from 1970 to 1985. In 1989, after several years working as a senior consultant in a training and consulting firm, she started her own business, named Nathan's Consultancy. She was one of the first to introduce the Enneagram in the Netherlands and would later write a book on the subject.^[1]

In 2005, Nathans completed training as a Jewish Spiritual Director at Lev Shomea, Institute for Jewish Spiritual Direction. In 2007, Nathan's Consultancy became part of Rijnconsult, and Nathans founded HaMakor, Centre for Jewish Spirituality.^[2] Nathans earned a masters in Hebrew language and culture at the University of Amsterdam. She studied to become a rabbi with Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal,^[3] a neo-hasidic movement founded by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, where she received her Semikha in January 2014.^{[citation needed]}

At the beginning of 2012, she worked as a rabbi in the congregation Beit ha’Chidush (House of Renewal), affiliated with Liberal Judaism of UK.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, she became the rabbi of the Open Jewish Congregation Klal Israel in Delft,^[4] is a Reconstructionist community with an outreach orientation where those with Jewish ancestry or interest in Judaism are welcome.^{[citation needed]}

• Adviseren als tweede beroep, resultaat bereiken als adviseur (1991/1995/2005/2015) (English: Consulting as second profession)^{[citation needed]}
• Werken met het Enneagram, naar persoonlijk meesterschap en sociale intelligentie (Scriptum 2000) (English: The enneagram at work)^{[citation needed]}
• Typisch ik, typisch jij; het enneagram, een handleiding bij mensen (Scriptum 2005) (English: Typically me, typically you; the enneagram a manual for people)^{[citation needed]}
• Een wortel die alsem en gal voortbrengt; het 20e eeuwse Chassidisme van Shalom Noach Berezovsky (2011) (English: A root oozing wormwood and gal; the 20th century Hasidism of Shalom Noach Berezovsky)^{[citation needed]}
• Werkboek Adviseren als tweede beroep (Kluwer 2012, mede-auteurs Marijke Broekhuijsen, Catalina Auer, Paul Meijer) (English: Work book Consulting as second profession)^{[citation needed]}
• Can someone in the process of conversion serve as shali’ach tzibbur? in R.Daniel Siegel, Renewing ger toshav; opening the gates that more may enter to praise God (2017)^{[citation needed]}