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.
Voor leiders, ondernemers, CEO’s, CFO’s, bestuurders, managers, professionals, managers, medewerkers van het bedrijfsleven, diverse banken, de rijksoverheid, universiteiten hogescholen, provincies en gemeentes, zorginstellingen, adviesbureaus. En voor andere professionals zoals artsen, verpleegkundigen, advocaten en artiesten. Dit is wat ze zeggen:
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.
Verder blijf ik me verdiepen in hoe ik mensen het beste kan helpen. Daarbij gebruik ik nieuwe bronnen uit de psychologie als ook de zienswijze en (spirituele) wijsheid van oude volkeren op de aarde. Maar altijd vertaald naar inzichten en concrete handvatten waar je echt wat mee kunt.
Ook al ben ik je begeleider, ik heb mijn blinde vlekken en blijf altijd aanspreekbaar. En natuurlijk kan ik alleen iets betekenen pas als je zelf echt wilt.
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.
Mijn visie is een wereld waarin we effectief en tevreden samen werken en leven. Als je open staat voor zelfreflectie en bereid bent om je kern te raken, kan er een hele nieuwe wereld in en om je heen ontstaan. Een wereld waarin jij tevreden, evenwichtig en effectief functioneert: Awareness at Work. Ik geloof als ieder van ons zich hierin van tijd tot tijd laat steunen, we een wereld creëren, waarin we met meer plezier, begrip en effectiviteit leven en samenleven. En aan die wereld lever ik graag mijn bijdrage.
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.
Zo kom je tot nieuwe keuzes komt die je fundamenteel meer rust, balans, tevredenheid, talentbloei en effectiviteit geven. Zodat je tot je recht komt en bijdraagt aan een betere wereld, op het werk en privé. Maar, hoe maak je zo’n wereld?
Door bewustzijn van jezelf te ontwikkelen (awareness at work). Maar over wélk zelf hebben we het dan eigenlijk?
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.
Ik ben van 1990 tot 1998 werkzaam geweest als trainer/coach bij Boertien&Partners en heb daar diverse trainingen aan deelnemers uit allerlei branches verzorgd. Bovendien heb ik de training ‘Persoonlijke Kracht’ en de training ‘De Zelfsturende Manager’ ontwikkeld. Verder heb ik in 1992 als Projectontwikkelaar ‘Individuele Coaching’ als nieuwe dienst ontwikkeld en opgezet, waarmee ik aan de wieg stond van de geboorte van deze dienst in Nederland. En daarmee één van de eerste professionele coaches. In die tijd ben ik ook geregistreerd als Gedragswetenschappelijk Opgeleide Trainer bij het Nederlands Instituut voor Psychologen. Verder ben ik als trainer 10 jaar actief geweest in de overheidssector als Freelance Trainer voor Publiek Domein.
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.
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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