27/10/2020
Life is opening doors and possibilities for me ✨ that were closed/paused for a long time. And how I have missed it! 😃 I am thanking life for bringing these possibilities to me in the now! 🙌🙌🙌
Today I took part in a meet up of a new group, a new collective here in Berlin, where so much possibility for creation and collaboration is birthing from, and will birth more from!
To be part of such a group is truly wonderful. And to support a group process, to support facilitators is wonderful too. I love it! >>Designing the program, preparing the flow of the day. As well as taking care of the process, the needs, and energy >> It brings back the joy that I felt back in the days, when I was facilitating my own trainings in Holland 😍
Which reminded me of this photo of me, taken about 9/8 years ago. While I was facilitating a group of masterclass students through a process of connection and transformation.
After graduation of my bachelor (Creative Agogue/Social Worker), I started as a freelance Trainer with the name 'OntwikkelPrikkel' in the Netherlands. Next to that I worked with children (0-12), and I was building a 'Playground for grown ups' in an old fabric in Utrecht together with my best friend. Maybe I was also studying interior architecture at the art academy.. or I was finishing up the first and only year I did of that study. (I did a lot at the same time!)
When I look back into that time, I so loved the days filled with facilitation, designing programs, creative possibilities, play-space, creating, the creative process, getting to know new people, working together, new collaborations, and everything that was new new new! 😄🤪
The creative artistic entrepreneurial lifestyle has always attracted me. The joy and energy that inspiration & creative ideas/visions bring to me is big! 🔥🔥🔥 It's a fire from the inside actually 😊 The variety in the work, my interest in the different work tasks, the freedom of creation. The whole process, from vision to creation is super juicy 😍
The years that followed after this photo was taken I I have had a lot more training in spaceholding, guiding, working with energy, working with groups in spaces and the creation process in itself. As well as, how to take care of overwhelm, sensitivity, energies, health on all levels: mentally, physically, emotionally. Plus that I had to learn that all the 'new new new' was not gonna bring me more satisfaction. That actually also the less juicy parts of entrepreneurship and any process in general, also need to be done and taken care of. And it is and was when I started to take full ownership of all the parts and tasks, that projects really come and came to fruition.
I am super looking forward to bring all the gained knowledge and wisdom of the last years into the facilitation of Cosmic Potion and the online program for creators (which I am developing right now).
There is something about facilitation that makes me come alive 😍 And it's not about facilitating a program, that I can copy paste for 20 times. It's about a process that is uniquely designed every time. Based on the needs and process of the group. Based on the group-dynamic. It's an alchemical process that is connected to many different aspects. Being able to guide a process, while taking all these aspects into account, is a true art. It's an alchemical brew that creates a unique potion. And that's one of the things I truly live for, for sure! 😍
Thank you life! 🙌