My story
33 years ago I was born in the Netherlands and after my primary and high school years, I joined the Royal Netherlands Army as an officer in the Air Defence Artillery. During my time in the army, I served in the Royal Military School in Assen to train recruits, and while being there my interest in personal development and leadership became apparent. I joined several projects on leadership and personal development, did several training courses, and would continue to do so for my army career.
After the army, I became an operations manager and later operations director within the electronics manufacturing industry. I did an Executive MBA at the University of Nyenrode and continued with my interest in personal leadership and leadership. During this period I came to realize that I wanted to approach the topic of personal leadership & leadership in a different way than is normally presented in classes, seminars, and trainings, and started to develop my course materials. During this same time, I was introduced to yoga and started practicing it first on a weekly and later daily. To my surprise at first, but with great interest which developed into love later, yoga turned out to bring forth similar models and practices as personal leadership and leadership practices in modern psychology, many times much more comprehensive.
In 2023 I was able to give my first course on leadership and later continued with other courses on personal leadership and communication practices. The courses were centered on taking ownership and developing yourself to be the best possible professional and leader. The feedback was great and I loved the process and interacting with so many different people.
In 2023 I also decided to go travel the world and to develop myself further. A dream for a longer time became a reality in 2024 when I started and am still going. The goal of my travels will be to develop myself through all kinds of new experiences and I will try to share these as much as possible.
Why Singularion?
I started Singularion in 2023 to work on leadership and personal leadership courses. Singularion is a combination between the words Singularity & Silmarillion. Singularity represents the science part of Singularion, also often used as an analogy for knowledge. Silmarillion (One of the Tolkien books) represents the art side, also often used as an analogy for the practical side of things. We need both if we want to have the best version and performance of ourselves.
Since I will be traveling in 2024 I will have no homebase to perform live training courses from. A couple of the people I had worked with in 2023 asked for a way to keep in touch on the topics we had been working on and I tried to figure out a way how.
A dear friend of mine advised me to set up a website to share the content I had been working on for the last few years and I immediately loved the idea. I decided to make it open source because the knowledge is not mine. Models and proven concepts have been created for many years by smart academics and we are lucky enough to be able to use their work. However, have you ever been to a course and someone is just giving you a lot of models and theories? You could have read it or watched a video about it and the effect would have been the same. A trainer or coach helps you to find the right models and to apply these in practice to see where it can be of use for you when you are trying to find your way. In this way you can learn a self-sustaining form of personal development in any of the areas.
Singularion will aim at providing you analyses of models, applicable formats, and everything that can help you on your personal development journey. Every month I will try to highlight a topic and show its applications so you can use it in your practice. This way you can start with your development anytime. If you want some further help in the form of digital coaching or digital training, just contact me and we can try to find a workable solution!
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