Facilitating & coaching

“I have found sessions with Karin tremendously beneficial, insightful, thought-provoking, and enjoyable. Karin has a unique ability to adapt her own approach to my comfort level in a way that draws out insights and gently challenges me to be braver, more accepting and a better person to the world.”

“Karin is an incredibly gentle and empathic coach. I am grateful for her patience, and the gift she’s given me. Her coaching is most powerful because she genuinely asks questions, without any judgement. At some point she asked me: “Do you love yourself?” I started to look into what self-love meant, and started adopting practices of self-love and self-respect. Thanks to Karin’s question, I was able to search for what love meant, I looked inward. I learned how to love myself. I learned to be kind to myself.”

“Le coaching a été très important pour moi. Cela a permis de faire éclore les compétences qui dormaient en moi. Jamais je n’aurais pensé que j’avais autant de compétences et de capacités pour faire face aux défis du développement communautaire. Avec Karin, que je remercie vivement, j’ai pu comprendre que tant qu’il y’a de problèmes, il existe des solutions. Il faudra juste croire en soi et approfondir la réflexion pour y arriver. Merci encore Karin pour ton professionnalisme.”

“My coaching sessions were around leadership. Talking with Karin helped me to overcome a lot of barriers and to capitalize my strengths. I saw myself grow through each session we had together.”

“Karin has the talent to listen without judgement. During our coaching sessions she encouraged me to look at myself honestly and place myself in the shoes of the other person. This resulted in me having more understanding, more patience and more insight.”

“The coaching sessions with Karin exceeded my expectations. I had thought that I would have nothing to talk about but I actually had a lot bottled in and Karin helped me to sort it out. I was continuously amazed by her capacity of not only listening to my words, but also the emotions and deeper meanings behind them. This coaching journey has made me more introspective and also gave me the strength and character to forgive myself for mistakes and the ability to learn from them.”

“Karin coached me on presenting myself better during job interviews. She did this in a very pleasant, positive and motivating way. She stimulated me to think about what the company might be looking for and what my added value could be. She motivated me to identify my strengths and provided support so that I was able to articulate them well. These coaching sessions contributed to me finding a full-time job. Thank you Karin!”

The workshop on team work and communication organized and facilitated by Karin.. ‘..was impressive’ ‘..was engaging and fun and at the same time I learned a lot’ ‘..was fantastic, simple and educative.’

The team building workshop organized by Karin and her Ethiopian colleague was.. ‘.. very impressive’ ‘.. thought –provoking’ ‘..fun with a lot of content’ ‘.. beyond expectations’ ‘..inspiring.’

The three-day workshop on Theories of Change (ToC) organized by Karin was.. ‘.. fruitful with lots of opportunities to interact and learn from each other’ ‘.. very interactive, engaging and participatory’ ‘.. very informative and enabled me to write my part of the strategy with sufficient information’

“I happen to be a lucky person to share with Karin about my situation of often being in stress. She helped through personal coaching – one hour each for 5 days; and regular homework. I greatly benefited from the coaching, becoming able to better manage my stress. I found her approach well-structured and very professional with all the right tools, techniques, passion and energy. Though meditation is not new to me, I got a different meaning of it, after she taught me about “mindfulness”. Very practical and useful. So grateful to Karin!”

“De resultaten van de enneagram test alsook de toelichting in het gesprek daarna met Karin hebben mij geholpen om de kernelementen van mijn persoonlijkheid te kunnen duiden. Dit heeft mij zowel geholpen in het finetunen van mijn CV alsook voor mijzelf de balans op te maken waar mijn sterke punten liggen en wat mijn valkuilen zijn. Onwijs waardevolle informatie.”

“I truly enjoyed working with Karin. She made me feel comfortable right from the start with her calm demeanor, thought provoking questions and skills as a great listener. She guided me through a time where I was questioning my next professional move and helped me ask the right questions, make a plan and take action. Thank you Karin!” 

“She has excellent facilitation skills. She is capable in finding those people who want to change and facilitates them in the direction they choose to go into.”

“Talking to Karin helped me enormously and enabled me to make a plan and take action, instead of feeling a helpless victim of the situation. As a coach, Karin is very good at holding up a mirror to someone and moving this person towards constructive action.”

“The coaching sessions with Karin completely shifted how I view coaching and has opened the possibility where I can be my own solution.”

“Karin and [her Ethiopian colleague] Ayni are a great duo to facilitate cross-cultural teamwork sessions in Ethiopia. I highly recommend trusting your team to them and to facilitate a productive, safe and learning environment.”

“As Manager of the Development Programs Department she coached four Program Advisors and was able to create a team spirit amongst them. She has the ability to get the best out of people she works with.”

“Although the coaching journey with Karin was quite brief, it held interesting and sometimes key insights that allowed me to break through barriers I had. Karin’s coaching strengths are here ability to key into feelings and emotions that I was unable to express at the time, as well as reframe certain challenges in a meaningful way.”

“Karin has excellent skills to bring all participants on the same page. The [Theory of Change] workshop met its initial goal very well.”

“I would like to recommend Karin’s superb coaching skills ! She has done an excellent job of supporting me one-on-one through the weird, wonderful and frequently scary process of launching my new training consultancy. This has involved immense patience and mindful listening on her part – particularly with the technical aspects of putting together a website. I received kind but clear guidance on how to promote myself and my business so that I now have a professional product I can be proud of.
An intuitive facilitator, Karin knew just when to elicit/encourage and just when to make suggestions or have me look at things from a different perspective. This means I now have a product that is well-crafted and authentic. Thank you Karin.”

“Karin gave us her full heart to understand us. When coaching us, I admired the way she handled us as a team.” …. “I’m impressed by the listening skills of Karin, and the way she rephrased the exact idea of the team during the coaching sessions.”

“The coaching journey with Karin was very enlightening and empowering. There was a flow to it in which each session had its own value and meaning. Karin has the ability to provide and ask questions that helped me see things in different perspectives.”