From communication to coaching skills.
Practicing Coaching - upskilling yourself in working with people.
Have you been flirting with coaching and would you like to finally get the hang of it?
Have you been working as a coach for a while and would you like to refresh your coaching skills?
This 7-day program offers you an (embodied) hands-on coaching experience that will enable you to develop and adjust your skills as a coach and boost your growth as a coachee.
Is Practicing Coaching for me?
Practicing Coaching is excellently suited for anyone who wants to strengthen his or her coaching skills and apply them in various contexts while working with people.
Either you approach it as
- a one-to-one session,
- an individual intervention during your training course,
- a meaningful conversation with one of your students,
- a diagnostic meeting with your team members,
- a support offering to your beneficiary,
with coaching techniques, you are more likely to make a real impact in people’s lives.
No matter your profession, coaching means growth for yourself and for others.
This training is for you if you want to:
- stimulate, challenge, and inspire others;
- better assist people with finding clarity, purpose, or even their calling;
- know how to empower people to lead healthier, more well-balanced lives;
- help people identify their blind spots or what pulls them back from their great projects;
- boost people’s performance and their working vitality;
- guide people in their process of navigating difficult moments;
- embark on a 2 ways journey working with others and with yourself at the same time;
- discover your style and be able to coach in a natural and authentic way;
Coaching is certainly one of the future skills.
It`s a personal and professional tool that allows you to create impulses for others, thus supporting them in their growth.
The direction is up to them, you are only guiding the process.
Therefore, coaching is considered to be a new human-interaction asset that influences how we understand, support, and pull each other up as we climb.
Inception training
How do we know that the training is impactful?
We look at various ways in which it shapes you (personally and professionally) and we design working forms that you can easily use later on.
This is also the reason why we put focus on applying from the beginning.
Throughout this training, you will be immersed in different levels of learning at the same time: you as a professional/coach, you as an individual/coachee, and you as a peer member.
And all these inner positions will play an important role within a safe, dynamic, and playful context.
Embodied approach
The way we connect to each other in any context goes beyond words and excluding the body from the coaching process is like inviting the sun in through a tiny window.
By constantly checking your sensations, observing the movement, and feeling the rhythm of yourself or of the other, you can allow much more to be revealed and much more space for change to happen.
And there will be plenty of time for you to develop this.
As we always walk our talk, every part of the training is coloured with embodied exercises so you can have a direct experience and gain confidence to use embodiment later on.
We offer everything, you choose
A variety of tools, techniques, and methods will be presented. From the core ones to the innovative ones.
A technique becomes a skill through practice thus you will have this opportunity and will be able to choose which one you will add to your personal style whenever you coach.
In the end, it’s not about collecting, it’s about selecting the ones that fit you the most.
Sandwich method
We are clever and we take care that the information lands first in your body.
Once the body has it, it naturally comes up to your rational reasoning through countless practice sessions.
This means we serve tasty and digestible sandwiches that look like this: embodiment - input - coaching practice.
What will you gain as a participant?
- Refresh your coaching skills, and work with them
- Practice in-depth observing, connecting, and questioning skills
- Discover the three basic ways you can make an intervention
- Develop an effective embodied coaching behaviour
- Detect and handle resistance
- Identify your own obstacles and learn how to turn them into stepping stones
- Explore the opportunity to coach and be coached
- Boost your growth in reflection groups
- Advance your coaching style while working with peer coaches
- Advance your coaching style while working with peer coaches
The teachings and disciplines we consult
Sieler A., Coaching to the Human Soul vol I-III
Starr, The Coaching Manual
Whitmore, J. Coaching for Performance
Parsloe, Leedham: Coaching and Mentoring
Starr, Julie The Coaching Manual
De Galan,K. Trainingen ontwerpen
David A. Kolb, Experiential Learning
Testimonials
Participation fee
€525 - general participation fee.
€450 - for people without paid job
To ensure your place in the retreat send us a copy of your travel booking by email. (If you don't need the travel reservation then transfer the registration fee of €125.)
Participants take care of their travel expenses. Accommodation and food are covered by Olde Vechte.
How to register
If you want to register for the training, you need to be above 21+ and english speaking. Click the register button on the left and fill in the registration form.
The selection of the participants is based on chronological order and will be up to 25 people. If you are selected, you will receive a confirmation letter.
If you’re not sure whether this training is a good fit for you, you can schedule a short 15-mins talk with the Head trainer - Marko Vlaming. Please book your time HERE.
Starting and ending date
9th of November 2023 - the program starts at 19:30 local time.
15th of November 2023 - the last day of the training finishes at 18:15.
16th of November 2023 - departure day before 11.00.
The trainers of this course:

Marko Vlaming
Youth worker, Head Trainer and Director
Marko started 25 years ago as a youth worker after obtaining his university degree in social and cultural work. Besides doing youth work and trainings, he uses coaching approaches in his daily work. In the last 12 years he developed into an all-round coach. Learning by experience as a method in coaching created a coaching approach that is very focused on working in the here and now. In his practice he works a lot with on-the-job coaching, supporting people to build up their life dream in the way they create fulfilment in their lives, using a wide spectrum of coaching methods and techniques that are currently available.

Krisztina Erdélyi
Educator, Trainer, Learning designer, Youth worker
For me, learning is a constant flow, it is always in motion: has different shapes, offers continuous insights and is present all around as long as we welcome it. These thoughts inspire me while working as a freelance trainer and project designer, while creating playful and dynamic learning frames for groups and individuals.
Working from and with this movement has always been exciting for me… it is the essence of my professional practice and it keeps leading me towards new and impactful discoveries (whether I’m facilitating a coaching conversation, delivering a training program or guiding a team of professionals).

Alina Porumboiu
Psychotherapist, Trainer and Coach
The fascination for moments of change, courage, and connection has been the guiding force towards working with people (young and adults) in the context of coaching and therapy. I often find myself immersed in an interaction, creating space for new perspectives to arise. There has been a constant curiosity about relationships (couple, parent-child, work-related and between inner parts) for as long as I can remember. I like to listen with all my body to the story behind the words and with kind sharpness to invite to a deeper delving.
“When there is an urge to make everything stop, better make it move."
Accommodation
The training takes place in Ommen, the Netherlands and is organized in and around the premises of the Olde Vechte Foundation.
You’ll stay in a shared (2-4 people) room with common toilets/showers located on every floor. There is Wi-Fi available and you will have access to the washing machine and a dryer.
The accommodation is located within a walking distance from Ommen city center (approx. 500 m). We will send you further information about how to get there and what to bring with you after your application form is approved.