Meet:
Stijn Thiecke
Trainer & Change Agent
BACKGROUND
After a crarriere in business services, I finally chose my IKIGAI more than 10 years ago; a role as a trainer, coach, (change) facilitator, and development motivator
Basic training and and Master Systemic Transition Management, Systemic martial arts, Neurofeedback practitioner training, Master class biohacking.
We are for real
Starting point for me as a trainer and coach is the question: what has made you the person you are today. With all the qualities, pitfalls, challenges, bruises, highs and lows you have known. I really love those stories. I embrace everything that has made you (and myself too) the person you are today. Some aspects of yourself overdeveloped, others underdeveloped. And then I'm curious; who are you really inside, and who do you really want to be. Which part of yourself do you want to re-invite. And which part may no longer belong to your future self.
We are of the wall
I am a vessel of contradictions. Trainer/trainer, DJ, Financial specialist, leisure baker, vinyl collector, Excel enthusiast, VvE administrator, football coach. People-oriented as well as result-oriented. And I like people who are different, who see things differently. Who challenge me to adjust my perspective. I encourage people to bring as much of themselves as possible (at work), because I think they are really happier that way. And that their employer can then really benefit from diversity.
We innovate for tomorrow
As a trainer of leadership programmes, I believe in development. I don't believe in growth, in the sense of more, harder, higher, faster, cheaper, more efficient. But I am a big fan of development. I challenge myself, encouraging people to choose more and more what makes them happy, and to be less constrained by what they want to avoid. I believe in growing and working on the most stubborn patterns. Still incompetent, but at a different level. To become more and more the person I am. And I find that the most wonderful thing to do, facilitating others to live their full competence.
We float like a butterfly and sting like a bee
Sometimes growth comes from a willingness to go with the flow that life brings you. Wonderful! And sometimes growth hurts. It demands letting go of something that has been so dear to you. Asks you to jump without knowing exactly where you will end up. To break with the old, ingrained patterns, while not yet grasping the new. The willingness to endure that phase between no more and not yet. To find out afterwards: wasn't so bad, or not. But glad I jumped. I myself sometimes linger too long in the familiar, the safety, the familiarity of the old, the certainty that things are not wrong. But by now I am also convinced that this rarely creates a situation, where I feel the energy flowing, where I am living my potential. So I force myself to keep moving, even when it is less fun.
We score without compromises
I am not here to fill the bucket, I am here to start a fire. Let's talk about what it is really about. Let's agree to be willing to take off our mask (slowly) and accept and embrace reality. With all the fun and all the pain that comes with it. So that we can move forward. Let's make it something truly beautiful together.