Inspirational speaking
With my talks, packed with relatable situations and practical tips, I want to inspire you to bring out the best in yourself and your team. You can choose from four themes, or I can tailor a talk specifically for you.
Family Ties At Work
How your family of origin influences the way you function at work
Your family of origin is your first world. It's where you lay the foundation for themes that will play a role later in life and work: dealing with others, taking your place, understanding power and hierarchy, handling rewards and punishments, managing tensions, receiving recognition, and developing different forms of loyalty.
You unconsciously carry this blueprint into your professional environment, where it strongly influences your behaviour and choices. Why do you keep clashing with authority figures? To what extent did you tailor your study choices to your parents' expectations? And why does success sometimes seem just out of reach?
This often happens because of a hidden loyalty to your family. By looking at the workplace through the lens of contextual thinking, you gain insight into these patterns and increase your effectiveness. This talk helps you deal more consciously with recurring situations and offers tools to work constructively with colleagues and employees.
The Power of Language
How positive language improves your life
Your use of language reveals a lot about yourself: from your word choice, intonation, and pace to your sentence structures. Your language reflects your inner images, beliefs, and principles. This primarily affects you, but also others and your environment.
Language is a powerful instrument, both positively and negatively. Every time you use a particular word, you make associations with earlier images or experiences. This often happens unconsciously. Moreover, every time you say, think, or hear a particular word, you reinforce the associated (inner) images and beliefs.
This talk makes you aware of your language. Once aware, you can choose which images you want to reinforce. Thoughtful use of language is a powerful, safe, and inexpensive instrument for change.
The approach of this talk is highly pragmatic, with many practical tips and tricks.
Interested in one of these talks, or are there other topics you'd like to see addressed?
How To Survive Your Colleagues
Tools for greater self-confidence at work
Do you work for or with a toxic person? Workplace scorpions are everywhere. They're bosses, colleagues, or employees whose destructive behaviour undermines your self-confidence. Without realising it, you ignore your intuition and allow yourself to be negatively influenced. Breaking that downward spiral isn't always easy.
With my workshops and talks, I want to help you turn things around and learn to deal with this behaviour. From now on, you'll take back responsibility for your own career and life. Using the five steps of the CARAC model I developed, I'll teach you how to succeed in doing so.
Leer jezelf beter kennen via kunst
Discover your inner beauty
“Schoonheid kan de wereld redden”, zei Vorst Myshkin in ‘De idioot’ van Dostojewski. Redden is misschien veel gezegd en toch…
Stories and myths have inspired artists to create art. Research shows that in hospitals with paintings on the walls, patients need less pain medication and recover more quickly.
Through the Genesis story, painting, music, and poetry, we'll explore the meaning of art. You'll see how artists have been inspired and how they express their creativity. Allow yourself to be moved by the beauty of various art forms. What touches you? What is the message for you, and what is the invitation?
After this talk, you'll look differently at art – and at the beauty within yourself.