Viktoria has solid experience in coaching and personal development. She started her career with coaching and mentoring young people with difficult background. For 7 years she has worked on trainings in the topic of communication, entrepreneurship, youth work. She has diploma in social sciences and she is an NLP practitioner. In the last 3 years she has been specialized herself on personal development and group coaching with NLP and life coaching background.

Yassar started to work with Olde Vechte Foundation since 2010. He has been delivering trainings and workshops on different topics (personal development, coaching, NLP, communication, presentation skills, training for trainers, negotiation, productivity) in the last 8 years. He was formed as a medical doctor and is presently doing his masters in psychology.

Martijn Meima has combined his knowledge of doing business with his experience and knowledge about intuition and spirituality. He has mastered various intuitive tools like business and family constellations and visualizations. With his positive energy and practical approach he makes the trainings fun and transforming.

Tihana is a Ken Blanchard Situational Leadership accredited trainer and Head Coach in Elevate. She held the Board Member position for three years in Croatian Coaching Association. She has over 10 years of experience in education and makes greatest difference in: leadership, team and individual potential development, personal development and trainer education. After her business expertise in Allianz as a Trainer, Bayer as a Regional Sales Coach, experience as founder of Syncro, outdoor educational program manager in Outward Bound, she decided to merge all best practices and founded "Elevate", a platform for personal and professional elevation.

Eddie has studied social cultural worker and is currently a youth worker aiming at reintegrating youngsters back in society through the EVS programme of Erasmus+. Eddie has expertise and knowledge in project writing for exchanges, trainings and EVS for 10 years.

Afonso has a background in Clinical Psychology. Since 2009 he has been involved in community intervention and working with groups in several international contexts: Portugal, Hungary, Guinea-Bissau, Bulgaria and the Netherlands. His main areas of work are personal development and coaching with a strong focus on movement and body awareness; mentoring of young people with fewer opportunities; media as an educational tool; and project management in the youth field.

Veronika has an energetic and enthusiastic attitude towards life which is reflected in her approach as a trainer. When it comes to working with people, she uses her intuition, creativity and experiential learning techniques. She is mainly focused on personal development, coaching and team building in connection with body awareness and body movement. During past years, she has been delivering, assisting and facilitating trainings and workshops and managing projects. Veronika holds a Masters in Sociology and Lifelong Education of Adults and has an extensive experience in group dynamics across three continents.

Lena believes that “play is our brain’s favourite way of learning”. She is designing, managing and delivering training courses about coaching, mathematics and personal development for youth, adults and teachers. Lena stimulates learning through body movement and theatre, which gives a dynamic and engaging aspect on the projects she is involved. Like this, her creative side comes together with her profession as a trainer and learning specialist.

Cathy is working in the field of personal development, coaching, mentoring and media learning with a focus on human rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, gender issues, self-expression and social sustainability. She has been working internationally with diverse associations and has been collaborating with Olde Vechte since 2011. She is the founder of Active Rainbow platform and she actively implements media (photography & video) and social media tools. Her educational background is in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Giedre Kaupaite has been working as a freelance trainer for 4 years now, has background in psychology, teaches the experiential methodology and working with groups at the IUSVE university of Venice. She has experience of trainership in national and international contexts on the topics of personal development, communication, conflict transformation. She has been working with psychologists and teachers of countries currently in conflict, promoting with the experiential training courses the win-win approach and non violent communication.

Juraj started his professional work as an outdoor education instructor in 2007. Since then he has been coaching and training youth leaders and professionals to bring their visions to reality, through methods of non-formal learning. He’s one of the founders of "Syncro" (Synergy Croatia).

Panagiotis (BSc Politics and History, Panteion University of Athens) is an experienced Trainer and Youth Worker born at 1981 in Athens. He started working with people as a Scout leader for teenagers since 1999. Throughout the years he developed his trainer's skills and competencies by enhancing several training methods and approaches such as: Coaching, NLP, Systemic work, Non-violent communication, DISC profiles, Self-organised learning systems and many others. He developed and managed several Erasmus+ programs and actively worked with people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. In his work he uses new media (social media, video, photography etc.), assignments, games, outdoor activities and other work forms. Nowadays he works as a freelance trainer & project manager and he is delivering trainings and workshops throughout Europe for training and non profit organizations.

Floris is an all-round team trainer who strongly believes in experiential learning. As trainer and board member at Buitendoor he uses outdoor activities as a tool for personal growth and team development, while as chairman of YSocialBusiness he facilitates and helps young entrepreneurs with starting up their own social enterprise. With his own company, Chygaruu, he combines both worlds by helping teams and companies turning into learning organizations. Floris is an engaged and enthusiastic team trainer, who searches for the twinkle in people's eyes. With his curiosity and open attitude he sees the world as one big learning space.

Andrew has a Bachelor in Music Science & Art (specialized in percussion) but went on to work with media (photography and videos), as a freelance trainer, director and producer. Currently he is very close to the fields of performance arts & media by organizing and running international projects & residencies. He is passionate about motion captured on camera and no matter the art he works with, he is always driven by his musical background.

Maja Darija is a coach and trainer with years of experience in working with multicultural and international groups and individuals through non-formal education, coaching and experiential learning. She holds a MA degree in Psychology. Maja began her career by working with youth as a facilitator of intercultural learning. Maja is one of the founders of Centar za osobni i profesionalni razvoj Syncro – Synergy Croatia, a youth organization successfully running in Croatia since 2010. Her passion is to work and support young people and teams, especially the ones who are starting their businesses. Professionally she is committed to supporting people in living fulfilling lives, encouraging entrepreneurial mindset, empowerment through education, personal and professional development and peacebuilding.