Transform your thinking and feeling

This is for you. Your time to listen inwardly. Your time to think. Your time to feel. Your time to be. To say what you want and need to say and to work out what you most want and need right now. You will have uninterrupted time for yourself to think as yourself. You are in a safe space where you can think and feel into things that are challenging you.

If you are restless, too busy, feeling overwhelmed and tired I will help you feel the ease and take time to explore perspectives. If you feel lost and stuck, I’ll give you time to pause and think so any action you take comes from your authentic core rather than your fear or from what others expect from you.

In any session with me you will be encouraged and supported to truly think for yourself to come up with ideas, intentions, directions, understanding, solutions, decisions and actions for yourself that can be precise, resourceful and practical.

You will leave our sessions feeling uplifted, energised, nourished and confident. You will gain new profound insights on any topic, whether it is your personal development, your situation at home or at work, your field of work, technology, leadership, people leadership, human leadership, project management, quality, collaboration, organizational structure or culture or any other subject. You bring in the topic and the questions you want answered.

This way of coaching is radically different, with radically beautiful insights. You will know and feel the difference.

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As a Time to Think Coach

I listen:

with my full presence

with my full attention

with my listening heart

in a transformative, generative way

Improve your Thinking to find Better Solutions to your Challenges

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During your individual thinking session, I will guide you in clearing your mind for a few minutes, come to peace, free from rush and noises and focus. Then you bring in the topic of your choice, which is important, real and current to you. You will have time and space to think deeply as yourself, for yourself, independently from me. I am with you to encourage and support you to achieve the best possible outcomes you can.

Assumptions about yourself, others or the situation may arise that are stopping you from moving forward and achieving all that you would like to. I will help you to challenge them. Assumptions influence our thoughts, feelings and actions, so it is good to be aware of them. You will understand your assumptions better, examine them and replace them with neutral or more positive assumptions so that you can see possibilities and solutions again.

How is this different from other coaching styles?

Generative listening is a technic used to ignite your mind, to bring out and use your full potential, to get answers and go beyond the limits of your thinking.

The coaching sessions are run in the Thinking Environment that I create or you as a Time to Think coach. The right conditions will be there, such as my attentive presence, silence, no interruptions, no directing, no judgements, no opinions and the right open-ended questions at the right time. It will be in line with the 10 components that help you deepen your thinking and feeling.

I listen to you in a way you may never have experienced before.

What do you get out of the sessions?

You will think about your topic. What would you like to think about and what are your thoughts? Please fill in your desired outcome:

  • I want to do… , I want to continue… , I want to create… , I want to plan….
  • I want to feel more… (comfortable, fulfilled, confident, etc)
  • I no longer want to feel… (shy, insecure, nervous, frustrated, etc)
  • I want to understand why I….
  • I want to investigate, think, expand, wonder about a particular subject, namely….

You don’t need to know your question or outcome in advance. Maybe you want to clear your head and get things straight for yourself.

Target group

I am here for you. The coaching is of interest to anyone who wants to find solutions and answers. The coaching sessions will be in English or Dutch.

Frequency and duration

The sessions will be one-on-one. 1 x 90 minutes or 4 x 90 minute coaching meetings focused on your relevant outcomes.

We will meet via video conference, or in my or your office, somewhere else or if you like during a walk in nature.

Relaxation and breathing will help us even more

You will get the chance to follow your breath and feel your body so you can come home to who your really are. As a yoga, breathing and meditation teacher, I hold the space, create a safe place and radiate: ‘I’ve got you. Your thoughts and feelings matter’. When needed and desired, I combine coaching sessions with relaxation and breathing so that you can listen even more inwardly to what is truly important to you and to what you really want in life.

The way we breathe affects how we think, feel and act. When we are able to listen within, we are better able to recognize our thoughts, feelings and actions, understand ourselves and have compassion for ourselves. We are better able to connect with ourselves and from there better connect with others.

Listening to Others to Generate their Thinking

Are you a parent, a coach, a teacher, a leader, a colleague, a friend and do you want to further develop your listening skills to help others to do their best thinking? Then this might be of interest to you. What pearls of thought will your family members, colleagues, vendors, customers come up with?

First you will experience what it is like to think deeply yourself in a Thinking Environment, then you will practice to create the right conditions for others.

When you promise not to interrupt, by being attentive, by asking open-ended questions and other skills and principals, you will stimulate the thinking process of others and therefore your own. By creating a Thinking Environment, they will add enormous value by tapping into their resourcefulness and wisdom, using their skills better and concentrating better. They will save time, make better decisions, be more productive and creative.

The Diep Luisteren Challenge (in Dutch) and the Group Facilitation will help you to listen deeply to others.

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Target group

This is of interest to anyone and especially to leaders. We all lead by example as a parent, manager, colleague, teacher, etc.

Perhaps you want to know how to bring more ease, get better results, change your communication style, improve your listening skills, implement a listening culture in your family or business, increase engagement, inspire or increase your influence. The choice is yours.

The sessions will be one-on-one. 1 x 90 minutes or 4 x 90 minute coaching meetings focused on your relevant outcomes. We will meet via video conference, or in my or your office.

If you want to apply your listening skills in your team and/or develop your team’s listening skills, we will practice that as well.

Cultural Awareness to Understand, Communicate & Cooperate Better

Do you work in an international company or with people from different cultural backgrounds? Then this could be of interest to you. Our cultural background often influence what we see, how we listen, what we think and what we do, so also our way of working, communicating and cooperating.

In order to better listen, understand, communicate and work with people from different cultural backgrounds, motivate, inspire, convince them and satisfy customers, we need to better understand our own and their culture so that we know how to interpret the meaning behind the words and their actions or lack of actions. Then we will understand why they do what they do and how we can act and react appropriately and adjust our messages, feedback, questions and actions accordingly to build a more mutually trusting working relationship with them. The coaching prevents you from making cross-cultural missteps, it prevents misunderstandings, unnecessary conflicts and ultimately failure. It makes cooperation much more enjoyable.

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Goals

You will better decode and understand your and others’ culture(s). You will improve your cultural knowledge and awareness and turn it into deep cultural understanding. You will prace your new skills to further enhance your effectiveness in dealing with people from different cultural backgrounds.

Frequency and Duration

The coaching sessions will be one-on-one. 1 x 90 minutes or 4 x 90 minute coaching meetings focused on your relevant outcomes. We will meet via video conference, or in my or your office. Check out the group webinars on the event page.

Topics

Which topics we cover depends on you and your situation. I am willing to offer you insights on the most common problems in business communication arising from cultural differences. For instance feedback, engagement, leadership, decision-making, building trust, disagreements and planning. You will see how the cultures involved (including yours) score on these topics, what the bottle necks are and how to tackle them. You will learn to listen carefully and read between the lines. You will get advice on how to adjust your communication and leadership style.

Deep listening.. a special experience talking to Marjoleine

“She gives me confidence that I can speak freely, without being judged. She does not direct the conversation. Instead, I can bring forward anything to my needs. I notice that her repeating the same questions really helps. I think and feel deeper bit by bit. A the end I can clearly see my negative beliefs, so I can start exploring what possibilities there are for me when I could free myself from these beliefs”.

At the end of the session I felt discharge

“The assumptions I had about the other and about myself I examined and now understand better. I grant this experience to everyone who is open to it. Marjoleine is a pleasant person and very skilled in her profession”.

I feel really strong and confident

“Marjoleine, you radiate that I can trust you. I prefer not to show my emotions, but have done so with you. The listening session has given me more insight into the feelings and questions I am struggling with. I have found my own answers to them. At the end of the listening session I came up with a question to myself that I still ask myself daily and that helps me tremendously. It has an immediate effect on me and therefore on others. Now, a week later after our listening session, not only do I get appreciation from others, but I feel really strong and confident.”

I have more positive thoughts about myself after 6 sessions

“I have learned how to change negative thoughts into neutral or positive ones. I often wondered what others would think of me. I thought they thought negatively about me. Now I don’t wonder about that anymore. I am more grounded, more centred and I know how my breathing can help me to to stay close to myself and go on from there.”

Your amazing contributions

“Beautiful insights, Marjoleine. Thank YOU for your amazing contributions and leading the way for others in modelling what really good listening looks and feels like”.

Bridging and connecting

“I love Marjoleine’s passion for ‘bridging and connecting’ and truly seeking to listen and understand!”

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