Working and collaborating more joyfully and effectively.
Living a meaningful and peaceful life together.
With a heart for yourself, your team or organisation and your (natural) environment.
That is my dream and we can make it happen: with Spirited Personal and Collective Leadership. It is my passion to help you, your team or organisation to get along. Towards a shining working and living together.
My 30 years of professional, national and international experience as an awareness and business coach/trainer/psychologist has enabled me to help thousands of clients in Personal or Collective Leadership. Both groups and individuals, in executive, business-, life- and team coaching sessions, training courses, leadership development and organisation development programs, retreats and seminars.
For leaders, CEO's, CFO's, directors, managers, employees, professionals and entrepeneurs in business and commerce, various banks, provincial and municipal councils, care institutes, consulting agencies. And for other professionals like doctors, nurses, lawyers, judges and (musical) artists. This is what they say:
Martin has reconnected my head, heart and soul. This automatically resulted in me rediscovering my own strength. I also learned to handle (emotional) manipulation, confrontation and overcome my fears. I am extremely grateful to Martin for rediscovering myself and would like everyone to have this experience. In short: I highly recommend Martin's coaching!!!
"The coaching has given increased my resilience has given me new confidence. What helped is that Martin is a very experienced coach with knowledge of many topics. Each issue is viewed from several perspectives and is clarifying and effective. Ik found it a great gift!"
"The Skype coaching session felt as if I was sitting directly next to Martin again! This enabled me to speak openly and with trust. Very helpful coaching session with clear and practical feedback that I could apply directly at work with tangible results".
"You have to do this. I have come to known myself and my team so much better. As team-members we have grown towards each other. Thank you Martin!"
"I have experienced Martin as a sincere and expert coach who knows how to make crystal clear analyses that are useful to P&O consultants - clear, development-focused and realistic. He is also pleasant in conversation and has a passion for his work".
"From Martin I quickly and flawlessly gained insight into why I sometimes run into the same things and how I can apply changes with tools. This not only improves collaboration on the work floor, but also my employability sustainability."
"Many thanks for your valuable guidance of our team trajectory. You manage to really bring something about and that has not been possible for years. So I - and many others - are really happy with that".
"Martin is a true and intellectual professional, who is an expert in guiding people to approach business content with authenticity. This transformation allows them to come in their own strength, resulting in an increase of confidence and a successful performance, as well as a personal value add towards a happier lifestyle".
"Martin gives me advice on my career and life. He inspires me and gives clarity face-to-face, by audio and video call".
"Martin enables personal changes, by letting you self-explore your personal core and related strengths. He is able to create an environment where you can interpret your way of interacting with your environment and lets you improve yourself on achieving your (newly explored) goals using a new discovered approach".
"I can recommend it to anyone. I have a great network of like-minded people. I am sure many of those will be pleased to have a few coachings with him".
"I have experienced these teamcoachings as very positive. I find Martin truly a good coach who really senses well of what's going on in our team. Thank you so much for this!"
Awarded as Best Awareness Coach & Psychologist 2023
The international organization GHP Mental Health Awardshas proclaimed me as 'Best Awareness Coach & Psychologist of 2023 in the Netherlands'.
To determine the results Global Health & Pharma's judging panel and research team take into consideration commitment, expertise and innovation shown by nominees through nomination information, voting information, any supporting evidence that you have supplied, along with the results from their own extensive period of fact-checking and research.
Helping, coaching and training people has been in my blood from an early age.
My exploration of how I can best help people is ongoing. I use new sources from the psychology sector and the perspectives and wisdom of the ancient peoples of the earth. But always translated into insights and concrete tips that you can really get to grips with.
Even though I am your guide, I have blind spots and am never unapproachable.
Read all the evaluations of the past 30 years and you will see that I often score good to excellent with my customers and clients.
My vision is a world in which we work and live happily together. If you are open to self-reflection and prepared to touch your core an entirely new world can come into being within and around you. A world in which you function effectively, with equilibrium and satisfaction: Awareness at Work. I believe that if every one of us accepts support in this from time to time we create a world in which we are effective and live with pleasure and understanding. And I enjoy contributing to this world.
Author: Martin Thoolen (©2023)
This book is intended for anyone who, in their private or work life, wants to:
Regardless of whether you are a leader, lawmaker, entrepreneur, manager, professional, associate, student, parent, family member, teenager or an adult.
What to expect?
This book will take you straight to the source of all your choices and behaviors. It will give you accessible insights, inspiring examples and exercises that you’ll be able to apply immediately, and see results of quickly. You will gain insight into the three forces that determine each and every one of your choices, behaviors and personal leadership: ego, soul and consciousness (spirit).
The following questions will be answered: What is ego anyway? Should you jettison your ego? What are the benefits of ego, and what are its pitfalls? Or, what is the soul? Is there a reason for our existence? What are the five existential tasks the soul has to tackle? What are the pros and cons of working and living from inspiration? And, what is spirit or consciousness? How can you utilize it more to have smoother relationships in private and at work and to create more peace for yourself and others around you? In the last section of the book you will see how you can make a real contribution towards a better world.
The new book is packed with over 300 pages of inspiration! The retail price is €34.95 per book.
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My mission is to help you become more aware of yourself. And the impact it has on your behavior and choices for yourself, your team or organisation, and your (natural) environment. However, fundamental development only works if you also address the roots of your current behavior and choices: the deeper forces and experiences that reside within you.
In this way you arrive at new choices that fundamentally give you more peace, balance, satisfaction, talent blossoming and effectiveness. So that you can achieve your full potential and contribute to a better world, at work and in your private life. But how do you create such a world?
But how do you create such a world? By becoming aware of yourself. But about whát self are we talking really?
Over the years I have seen that you can look from different perspectives that determine your choices and behavior: your ego, soul and awareness (spirit). Like you can see in my book 'Spirited Personal Leadership'. With concrete examples and exercises. Whether you are an employee, manager, employer, professional. Civil servant or business, political or spiritual leader. Or partner, father, mother, child, family member, fellow countryman or fellow human being. It will fuel your heart and mind.
I worked as a trainer/coach at Boertien & Partners from 1990 to 1998, and trained participants from a wide range of sectors during this period. Moreover, I developed the Personal Strength and Individual Coaching training courses while I was there. At that time, I was also registered as a trainer educated in Behavioural Science at the Nederlands Intituut voor Psychologen (Dutch Association of Psychologists).I also worked as a Freelance Trainer for Public Domain in the public sector for 10 years.
From 1999 to 2019 I worked as co-founder of the Circumference agency. This is where I developed and implemented the following:
This wealth of experience allows me to help with an extremely wide range of professional and personal issues. Whether they concern leadership or cooperation, stress or time management, reintegration or your work/personal life balance. Conflict-management, career choice, relationships and more.
In 1995, I was registered as a trainer educated in Behavioural Science, and in 2009 as a Psychologist Trainer at the Nederlands Instituut van Psychologen. In 2011, I registered as a Registered EuroPsy Psychologist at the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association (EFPA). In 2013, I was registered as a Registered Psychologist NIP/Arbeid & Organisatie (employment and organisation) at the Dutch Institute of Psychologists. I am affiliated with NIP, EuroPsy (EPFA), Coachfinder and Coachhouse.
What inspires me are the cosmic mirrors of self-reflection that life and work give me every day. If you look carefully, you can learn and grow every day in how you handle other people and situations. At work and private-wise.
What inspires me is to use other ways of thinking, besides existing psychology, that contribute to natural growth and balance, wisdom and joy. A great many indigenous cultures throughout the world, some of which I have visited, and various movements relating to spirituality are long-standing sources of inspiration for me. Here you see in a bird's eye view some of the leaders, chiefs, healer, teachers and nature that have inspired me around the world.
“My desire to experience a better world together has always been a lasting torch in my life. How is it possible that we wage wars, small and large? At work with our colleagues, customers or suppliers, privately with our neighbors, family or partner? Or with each other as nations? What actually drives every person? And if we know that, how can we make things more beautiful together at work and in our private life? Since childhood I have been interested in what all of us actually drives: individually, collectively and then both in the present and throughout the years of history. What is it beyond behavior that actually defines all our behavior and choices? Imagine finding out, or maybe even get to know a reason for existence. And how nice it is to receive pointers that actually contribute to a better world. All this and more can be found in this book. However, something has happened before that.
Thirty -five years ago I have been discovering as a mental explorer to what really drives us all. Before that, I was already involved in astrology as a teenager and I also chose philosophy as a secondary subject in high school for three years. I then dug further and obtained my master's degree in clinical and organizational psychology in 1990. I also studied metaphysics and studied parapsychology at the University of Utrecht as a minor.
However, the various existing psychological schools, including behavioral psychology and models, are not enough. When it comes to answering life questions and guiding questions from my clients and clients, the current psychology appears to have limits, which means that you cannot achieve an optimal result. So I continued the search and looked into what else drives us. Because what about the age-old wisdom and healing methods of the various indigenous peoples on the earth? What is it that all religions have in common, and how does that influence our behavior? Why is there war, and why peace?
Life, and therefore abroad, beckoned me with these and many other questions. I went out looking for answers in literature, but also at conferences and podcasts about leadership, psychology, philosophy, religions, physics, metaphysics and spirituality.I have followed dozens of national and international conferences, workshops and courses in the field of personality development, mindfulness, spirituality, non-dualism and more. These were provided by dr. Hal & Sidra Stone, dr. Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Almaas, Jadthen Jewall, dr. Olga Kharitidi, Jeff Foster and Gangaji, to name but a few.
Because I have been dealing with these life questions on a daily basis in my personal and professional life for the past thirty years, I received many new insights. These included professional experiences with thousands of clients/clients and leaders in business, state, provincial and municipal governments, healthcare, education, science and many other industries. I have also learned a lot by developing and implementing, for eight years, week retreats 'Inner Nature' abroad, from more than thirty open courses 'Personal Empowerment', from the 'New Perspective' training for the national government and from the training from trainers for this. In addition, I have provided international in-company Personal Leadership (self-management) training courses, as well as thousands of professional coaching and dozens of teambuilding activities, and much more. But I also got insights from dreams and visions, some of which you will find in my book ‘Spirited Personal Leadership'.
However, I also literally spent years 'on the road in the world' to arrive at new answers. Over the past decades I have also gained many experiences and insights from my encounters with indigenous leaders, chiefs, healers, spiritual teachers and nature around the world. If you like it, here's a bird's-eye view in two minutes of what I've met before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca58VpEoy_Y
These contacts brought clarity to me about the natural heritage that many of us have forgotten, namely universal consciousness, often referred to as "spirit". That awareness fundamentally influences our existence, and therefore also our (work) behavior and choices. I see it as one of my tasks to bring all that knowledge and experience together into something that really matters and that you can use practically. And then both at work and in your private life, while it can also contribute to a better world. Universal knowledge is bundled in this book in a clear, well-arranged and at the same time profound and practically applicable way.
I sincerely hope that my work inspires you to give your work a spin that will benefit you and the world around you.”
Martin
I enjoy sharing personal and professional experiences and insights of my clients and myself in the blogs, articles, my book as co-author and more, which you can find here on the inspiration page.
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