Podcast: Beyond the Corporate Mask
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Read more3 December 2025
Embodied Leadership in Practice
Through the Eyes of a Participant Every now and then, a trainee puts words to an experience that, as a facilitator, you witness unfolding but could never quite capture yourself. This is exactly what happened when Saskia Decorte, a writer and editor at Psychologie Magazine, attended our October Embodied Leadership Retreat now officially known as Focus Labs). Her article, “How Can…
: Embodied Leadership in Practice
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Read more21 October 2025
Emotional Overshadowing: How to Keep Your Voice When the Room Gets Loud
You walk into a meeting fully prepared. Your notes are ready to go. You know what you want to say. And then it happens. Someone’s tone sharpens. Another raises their voice. The energy shifts. Suddenly your heartbeat feels louder than your thoughts, and your well-thought-out words disappear. That’s emotional overshadowing – when strong feelings in…
: Emotional Overshadowing: How to Keep Your Voice When the Room Gets Loud
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Read more1 September 2024
Why we so often fail to reach our goals (and what to do instead)
As the end of the year is approaching, I am often thinking back about this old classmate I spoke to, about five years ago. At that moment she told me, with twinkling eyes: “I’m going to do things completely different this year! I have decided to finally launch my own business, a webshop for children’s…
: Why we so often fail to reach our goals (and what to do instead)
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Read more19 July 2024
Empowered and Unstoppable: Shattering Gender-Based Limiting Beliefs with Somatic Practices
“Are you sure you can handle that project? It’s quite challenging”, one of your colleagues questions, casting doubt as you volunteered to take on additional responsibilities at work. “I’m not sure if you have the right expertise for that role, my dear” another colleague chimes in. Does this scenario sound all too familiar? Sadly,…
: Empowered and Unstoppable: Shattering Gender-Based Limiting Beliefs with Somatic Practices
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Read more4 April 2024
Why you never succeeded in changing your behaviour… and why your BODY has the answer
Changing your behaviour is hard: we all know that. But why is it so difficult for us to change, even when we REALLY want to? And is there any way to succeed? The secret lies in somatics: your body has the answers for you.
: Why you never succeeded in changing your behaviour… and why your BODY has the answer
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Read more21 March 2024
5 reasons people quit their job
Every manager has had to deal with it: employees that quit. It’s part of the job. But what if your top employees leave one after the other? Or if employees that started 6 months ago already leave? That’s a different story.
: 5 reasons people quit their job
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Read more24 September 2023
What does working virtually mean in practice?
When Doors Open visited Norway in February 2019 to mentor a newly formed team, with members spread over four countries, we had the chance to prepare the team for the challenges of working virtually. In 2020 many teams will not have been able to prepare themselves for this properly, but rather thrown into this situation…
: What does working virtually mean in practice?
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Read more25 July 2023
When you don’t even know how to make a sandwich anymore
“How are you? “ Yeah good. Busy, you know, but good. How are you?” While you answer your friends question on the Saturday morning during your coffee date before you quickly – especially quickly – need to go to a winter festival, take a selfie for Instagram – also quickly, before the foam on your…
: When you don’t even know how to make a sandwich anymore
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Read more17 June 2023
My Best Mistake – Svenja Vollmer
Making mistakes is THE way to learn and develop yourself. That is why we at Doors Open are celebrate making mistakes! Every month we interview entrepreneurs, leaders, professional athletes… People who, just like you, have gotten to where they are by failing and standing up again. They have told us about their best mistake: a…
: My Best Mistake – Svenja Vollmer
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Read more6 April 2023
My Best Mistake – Cees Juffermans
On 12 February 2006 Cees Juffermans has the chance to write history in Dutch sports during the Olympic games in Turin. But his own mistake shatters his childhood dream. What happend on that Sunday? And even more importantly: What did Cees learn from his mistake?
: My Best Mistake – Cees Juffermans
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Read more13 January 2023
You’re making me blush
Why it’s so difficult to receive compliments – and what you can do about it “What? This old thing? I’ve had it for years!” I hear myself saying this more often than than I’d like to when I get a compliment about my outfit. Not only about my outfit actually, even professionally I brush compliments…
: You’re making me blush
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Read more22 October 2022
Six Ted Talks about leadership that everyone needs to see
One of my favourite hobbies on an evening off during the week or on a Sunday morning is watching Ted Talks. I find it one of the best sources of inspiration on topics that interest me. One of those topics is leadership. From all of the Ted Talks that I have seen, I have made…
: Six Ted Talks about leadership that everyone needs to see
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