Meet the Team

You will be hosted by a team of theoretically educated and practically skilled professionals with long standing experience in business and the (non-) governmental sectors. Coming from various backgrounds we have all reached a point where we started to figure how we can best contribute to the complex issues of our time and the role we want to play in them. Each of us wandered their own journey and somewhere our paths crossed. We realised that apart from us there are probably many more professionals stumbling on the same questions and we decided to group together and this training emerged.
We hope you will join us on our path of reflective practitioners.

‘Reflective practitioners: far too committed to practical results and dissatisfied with current capabilities to rest on past habits’
― Senge, Presence

Do you wish to get to know us better? Please look below.

Mireille Wiegman (47) MSc in Business (Drs.)


Mireille has worked extensively as a projectmanager in (inter-)national projects. Her directness, openness, combined to passion and clear insights, will make you think twice. She likes to share insights from her own journey. She followed a path of yoga, bodywork, meditation/mindfulness, and lots and lots of books, trainings, unleashing her own potential. Some of the results you are about to experience: Ieders Plak_ and this training. Together with Karin Lodder, she established Bureau Basalt, an organisation focussed on unlocking the richness of the paradoxical Island Terschelling for business.

Philippine (Pien) Linn (50), MA, CPCC, PCC


Pien is an experienced coach and facilitator. Her joyous directness and openness will make you re-think yourself. Her sharp observations will deepen your learning in this training.
In working with Pien you will experience how creating a self-authored life can be done with lightness, ease and pragmatism.   
To manifest her urge to have leadership development and change be sustainable in organisations she has founded Teal for Teal; a movement to create communities of practice that work with the clear scope to reinvent organisations and a more participatory ways of working.

Maaike Boumans (28) 
​MSc Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability

Maaike works as a host and trainer worldwide in various contexts and specialises in leadership and sustainability, assisting business and community leaders in creating positive societal change. Her work is rooted in new ways of learning, organising and working together around issues that matter. As an experienced Art of Hosting facilitator Maaike will invite you into a world where you experience the value of language, harmony, silence, beauty and balance.

Rene Herlaar (58),
partner in Herlaar Business Coaching

Shares his long experience in business. Knowing the trends will ensure that this training touches upon the issues you recognise from your own experience. Rene brings along his calm, trust, courage and generosity. You will feel strengthened by Rene's personal story. Unfolding together with his wife and business partner Lucy. You will feel recognised in who you are and for what you are. Rene ensures this training constitutes a natural follow up on the Art of Participatory Leadership in Business.



Lucy Herlaar (56)
partner in Herlaar Business Coaching

​She is an experienced business trainer, coach, and foremost, observer. Once she shares her observations you will experience a new perspective. Her subtleness and audaciousness combined with her extraordinary gifts in graphic visualisation will truly enrich your  experience of this training.