Why Coaching?
Do you live because you work?
Do you work because you live?
Or do you work because you enjoy it?
- Do you want a job that suits you better?
- Do your talents keep getting snowed under, while you want your talents to work for you?
- Would you like to adjust your job duties to better match your qualities and personal needs?
- Do you keep running into the same problems in your work, or do you keep experiencing the same blockages?
- Would you like to be supported in developing your leadership skills?
- Do you need an MOT; a short process to reassess your function aimed at sustainable job satisfaction
- Would you like to prepare and practice a job interview together?
- Do you think you would benefit from learning (earlier) how to indicate boundaries and needs and would like to experience more relaxation, calm and slowing down in your work?
- Want to explore your options as an expat?
Get to know me
I am a coach, I am Marije
I give the pass, you head it in!
As a certified career coach, I believe it is important to look at your unique talents. Such as your own qualities, strengths and wisdom. After which we convert personal characteristics, qualities and skills into concrete goals and actions to shape your career question. During the career process, your individuality comes first.
Besides my background as an HR professional, manager and reintegration coach, I am my own greatest resource. I am familiar with the struggle of “not having a job” and “going to work with enough joy”. This makes me not only an expert by experience, but also an equal interlocutor. Furthermore, I am a mother of two adolescents and, above all, just human.
My core qualities? Curious, enlightening, approachable, respectful, creative, authentic, enthusiastic, serious with sufficient humour and razor-sharp in analyses.
I coach multilingual and am also available for HR support and development.
This is how we are going to do it
Only one thing is needed
Your will to set something in motion
No one stands with one step -hop!- into a new life. No, we walk up a bit together. We look at what has been, at where you are now and where you want to go. I give you a personal workbook, inspired by the method of my source of inspiration: Adriaan Hoogendijk. He works with biographical assignments, core quadrants, quadrant of elements and vitality meter.
Your workbook contains creative assignments that you will do at home. With me, we get down to business. We discuss the assignments you did at home. We explore your strengths, desires, talents, skills, wishes and blockages. Sometimes I use simple visualisation and meditation exercises, systemic exercises and the inner voice.
Are you ready to take a look behind the scenes at different organisations? I will help you make contacts and support you in your research. And ultimately, that in-depth self-examination will lead you to the right place. It only takes one thing: your will to set something in motion.
Coaching explained
To start with:
A coach shows routes
It’s up to you to choose which way to go
You have a good reason to look for a coach. I have a good reason to want to coach you. My motivation is that I am curious about what moves people. And in the deeper layer: what blocks people. Because that is often at the basis of a coaching question. But the tricky thing is: we ourselves usually don’t know what is blocking us.
Whether you want to take a new direction or strengthen your qualities as an employee or manager, it doesn’t matter. Together, we will explore the possibilities.
Write your Career Course
Writing is finding out what lives inside you
~Rutger Kopland
Would you like to change or explore something in your work?
Come write in a small group (max 6 people) at the kitchen table in Eelderwolde!
Writing is a powerful tool for discovering your motives and arriving at insights, answers and wisdom. You bring out your inner world while writing, as it were.
Using playful, inspiring writing assignments, you will explore what is going on in your situation and put your thoughts, feelings and desires on paper.
By reading your writing aloud (if you want to), you give voice to what is going on inside you, apart from words. The stories of others give new perspectives.
As you write, you will naturally gain insight into what is really important to you. You can start making choices and plans and give a new direction to your work.
The write your career course is developed by Marianne Panneman
What others say
"Marije helped me create clarity in a muddle of thoughts and options I was in. She picks up a lot between the lines and summarises what I said very clearly. She does this in a completely unique way that I found very pleasant."
Celine den Boef
Project officer Accessibility UMCG
"Marije was the perfect coach for me. She knew how to get to the core quickly and came up with refreshing and surprising ideas. She stands out for her sincere, personal and spontaneous approach and is happy to go the extra mile. I can heartily recommend her."
Erica Urrutia Reyes
Online marketing consultant
"In a short time, she managed to get to the heart of the matter and instilled more self-awareness and decisiveness in the team. Her independent, open and positive attitude therefore quickly ensured that everyone embraced her as a coach. In personal coaching, I also noticed that she gets to the point quickly. She takes you into your own story and dares to be critical in the process."
Eddie Farve
Marketing Manager
"I still benefit from her advice because of the conversations I have with various managers, planners and HR."
Bauke de Witte
International truck driver and stage builder
“Marije is a creative and resourceful career advisor. She is open, understanding, a good listener and supportive. She knows the labour market in Groningen area well.”
Ghinwa Yazji
Arabic teacher
Because of the career path, I now know my strengths and know what next steps I will take and when. Marije gave me time and space to do the programme at my own pace. She was also very flexible with appointments (time and location), which made it easy for me to combine the appointments with my work.
Éva
Marije is a fine coach, perceptive and alert, optimistic, realistic and good-humoured. The balance between just chatting (putting you at ease), work-oriented conversations (cognitive), doing exercises (feeling), is really good and fine! During the conversations, there was always room for side paths or my own input. Stil Marije always brought it back to the core of the work path, along which the exercises and conversations had a logical continuation.
Sandra Jongedijk
Owner at Naturally San, ecological garden designer and nature lover, employee at gestation plant nursery Ninabel
I found that Marije exercised her profession with remarkable qualities of listening, sensitivity to others and respect for the singularity of my situation (sometimes paradoxical, complex and not always clear). I was truly accompanied and in the end, I consider that this allowed me to make the right decisions, at the right time, with the certainty of being on the right path for me.
Margot Soulière (she/she/her)
Citizen, Anthropologist, retired professor at the universiteit Ottawa, Social studies, Quebec,Canada
Get in touch with Marije
Do you have a concrete question or want to meet first?
Feel free to contact me.
Career interviews take place at the coachhouse in Groningen. Location Center of Groningen South.
