CLAIR VAN DEN BOOGAARD

I help people who keep ending up in the same place. In a relationship, at work, or in how they treat themselves. Together, we break that pattern. Not by talking or thinking it through one more time, but by looking at what’s really going on and actually doing something about it. I do that with a certain lightness. We don’t avoid the hard stuff, but I’m certainly not going to talk you deeper into a hole. Sometimes the shortest way through something serious is to not make it heavier than it already is.

I saw the same thing happen at work. Every time I helped someone on my team feel more grounded, the work itself got easier. That grew slowly, until I decided to make this my work, for real.

Op mijn werk zag ik hetzelfde gebeuren. Elke keer als ik de mensen in mijn team hielp sterker in hun schoenen te staan, ging het werk moeitelozer. Dat groeide langzaam, tot ik besloot hier ook echt mijn werk van te maken.

Sometimes the shortest way through something serious is to not make it heavier than it already is.

Meanwhile, I’ve been coaching for fifteen years now, and I’ve worked with people from more than eighty different nationalities. That’s only possible by staying flexible in method and strategy, regardless of culture or background.

A lot of coaching and guidance runs on assumptions, not on what’s really going on for the person in front of you. That makes the process longer than it needs to be, or it just doesn’t get to the heart of it. What I do is make room for you. Not literally, but the kind of room where you finally dare to deal with what’s been in your way all along.