What I stand for
We are dedicated to empowering individuals and teams through leadership development, developing effective team norms, helping individuals develop and change, and transform organisational organisation and culture.
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We know from practice - and the science agrees - that well-being in the workplace matters. The result is better health, more people present at work, employees working closer to their full potential, more creativity and higher performance. In short, happier people produce more and better.
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Our values include respect for all, including minorities, and we encourage more diversity, because a richer environment leads to a greater choice of options. Trust and safety are also needed in order for people to share information, and offer their knowledge and experience. Only then the rich environment brings rich information together to make better decisions.
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We disapprove violence, and this includes inappropriate or excessive pressure and toxic behaviour. The cost of these to the organisation is little visible but very significant.
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Our business reduces its environmental footprint as much as possible. We use the electric vehicle and the train. We voluntarily contribute to planting mangroves, a very effective way of storing carbon, that also restores degraded land and provides income to locals. We contribute monthly to www.goforest.be and we plant hundreds of trees every year ourselves.
My story
As a kid moved around the country and the continent and had to adapt to different situations, schools, languages and culture.
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To be able to adapt I have developed a high degree of sensitivity,
which is in part a blessing if it comes to understanding others, and in part it is a curse, because I got hurt once in a while.
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This characteristic has enabled me to excel in managing people, coaching people and teaching people to manage and coach. I refined the approach I initially used with science-based approach that guarantee sustainable, self-motivated change.
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In my personal work on my sensitivity I recently discovered I had complex PTSD, built up from a series of difficult experiences. I researched, tried and practiced many approaches to work with sensitivity and stress which clients can benefit from.
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- somatic psychotherapy: including the body when working with emotions, stress or other phenomena that appear to be in the mind.
- a nervous system and trauma informed approach to work with defense reactions such as fight (anger, irritability) and flight (withdrawal, anxiety and fear). This enables to develop more resilience and tolerance for activating events.
- emotional awareness and regulation based on twelve learnable emotional intelligence skills.
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