QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
My path, in full
Over the years, I’ve explored many ways to help people grow, learn and reconnect with their inner spark.
My professional path brings together yoga teaching, coaching and mentoring, English language teaching, and communication. Across these different fields, creativity, calm and care have become central to how I work. Here’s what I’ve trained in and learned along the way.
Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching grew out of my years of teaching and mentoring. I’ve guided students, young adults and international students, often together with their parents and teachers. Listening was at the heart of all of it.
I’m now training with a programme aligned with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), working towards my first credential (ACC), with the next level (PCC) to follow. I also hold micro-certifications in somatic coaching and group coaching, and I keep learning through peer coaching and supervision.
Yoga teaching
Yoga has been a steady thread in my life since 2010. I completed my certified Yoga Teacher Training between 2010 and 2014, followed by workshops and intensives with international teachers.
In Amsterdam, I taught full-time for four years, and later taught in Mozambique, South Africa and Spain. I’ve taught Vinyasa, Yin and Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, classes and retreats. Many on-the-mat hours, as I like to call them.
English language teaching
I’m Cambridge-certified through CELTA and CELTA Young Learners, and have taught English to children, teenagers and adults in Spain and the Netherlands. I also wrote course materials, including four thematic language readers.
Communication
I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from Fontys University of Applied Sciences and have spent more than twenty years working with words and content. Through Studio20 I also help other solopreneurs turn their ideas into websites, eBooks and useful resources.
Beyond the qualifications
Much of what I value in the people I turn to can’t be found on a certificate. It’s in how they listen, the questions they ask and the space they create for others. That’s what I hope to bring to my own work.
My coaching hours are still growing, because the ICF only counts them from the day my training began. Before that came around 10,000 hours of teaching, guiding and listening to people, on the yoga mat, in classrooms and in student support. I’m happy to share more about my background, though I’d much rather you experience how I work for yourself.
Dutch is my native language and I’m fluent in English. I’ve travelled overland from Nairobi to Cape Town and spent long periods in Mozambique and South Africa. These days, my life has two home bases: Amsterdam and an off-grid tiny house on Mallorca. All of it shapes the curiosity I bring to how I teach, write and coach.
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