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Coaching for Coaches
For coaches who have done the trainings. Built the toolbox. Read the books.
And who sense that something is still missing - not another method, but a different relationship with the instrument they actually do the work with: themselves.
You cannot coach someone past where you have gone yourself.
What you embody is what you transmit - regardless of what you know or say in session. Your clients feel your uncertainty before you name it. They pick up the tension you carry into the room. They sense when your presence is full and when something in you has quietly contracted.
Most coaches I work with arrive after years of training. Somatic certifications, NLP, clinical psychology, leadership development, breathwork. They are skilled and knowledgeable. They are also slightly stuck in a way that no extra certification will resolve.
The stuckness tends to be the same: they have learned to read others but haven't fully learned to read themselves - not under the pressures that still limit them, not in those subtle moments when their own patterns run the session without their noticing.
This is not a certification program. It does not produce a credential.
What it does ask for is a practice - your own. Not as preparation for better coaching, but as a container in itself. What you bring into the room with a client is not your knowledge or your tools. It is your current relationship with yourself. That relationship either deepens over time or it doesn't. The work here is designed to deepen it - and to make that deepening an ongoing part of how you work, not a one-time event.
What clients integrate in a session only becomes real when it starts living in their day-to-day experience. The same is true for you as a coach. The practice element is often what's missing in change that actually becomes continuous momentum.
What this work is
We work with you as a practitioner.
That means we look at what happens in your body when a client goes somewhere uncomfortable. Where you tighten when a session isn't going the way you'd hoped. What you do when the space between you and a client gets charged. When you planned to bring in a novel tool but feel uncertain about taking the risk. How you recover - or don't - between sessions.
We use movement, attention practices, and direct inquiry into what your body is experiencing. Not as an end in itself, but as a way of seeing the patterns that run underneath your coaching presence.
One thread that runs through most of this work is imagery. The metaphors clients use in their language - "I feel like I'm pushing against a wall," "I feel stuck in a loop," "there's something sitting on my chest" - are rarely just figures of speech. They are their current experience of reality, and they live in the body.
We learn to arrive and move within those images rather than interpret them: to let the body arrive where the mind has been looping. We also work with self-generated imagery as a practice in its own right - observing what arises when you give yourself and your clients space to produce individual pictures, and what those images open up about how you're currently moving in your work, your relationships, your life.
The work also draws on movement practice itself - sequences that develop elastic coordination, centred receptivity, and the capacity to remain connected to your body while staying attentive to another's.
This is not movement training as a skill in itself, but learning to relate to your body so it supports your presence, your intention, and where you direct your attention.
Some coaches come wanting to expand their toolbox. That happens: you'll encounter new approaches, learn to work more directly with the body, and develop ways to create immersive experiences for your clients' real obstacles. At the same time the more reliable outcome is simpler. You become more present, more honest with yourself, more able to stay with what's actually happening in the room rather than trying to manage it.
That quality - the one that comes before any tool - tends to change the work with clients more than any new technique.
In their words:
"I met Olivier for the first time three years ago. I was still in S&C mode - focused on training the body from the outside in. Then my life shifted a little, and I started looking for more 'work in' than work 'out'. So there I was, on my way from Czech to Belgium to get more. In those 10 hours with Olivier, he gave me exactly what my body and mind were calling for. He brings new ways of looking at the body - not as a rowing machine that is always rowing. He's a silent teacher who leads you through your own experience without telling you what's right or wrong."
— Eliška Nátěstová, Movement Coach & Studio Owner
"Olivier uses movement as a medium, not an end goal. I found deep parallels between the body, movement and entrepreneurship. He filled in the missing dimension in my practice as an entrepreneur coach."
— Jan Adins, Entrepreneur Coach
"I discovered new ways of moving, being and thinking. I wanted to include somatic practices in order to grow professionally and personally. Olivier allowed me to playfully explore what the body has to tell me."
— Cedric Arijs, Clinical Psychologist
"I felt how my body and mind are connected. Through these practices there's much you can prevent and heal. His coaching style was a revelation for me."
— Wout Geysen, Performance Coach
"Olivier helped me transform the way I see the body beyond theoretical understanding: how the body reacts to certain situations and where it is holding stress."
— Guy Yechezkel, Movement Coach
What the sessions include
Depending on where you are and what you're working on, sessions draw from:
Experiencing the practices I use with individual clients - from the inside, as well as the meta-view
Movement and metaphorical play situations that surface the patterns running beneath your coaching
Working with imagery - both learning to hear and move within the metaphors your clients spontaneously produce, and your own self-generated images as a practice in its own right
Designing environments for your clients that feel safe enough to trust and challenging enough to actually change something
Between-session resources, micro-practices and Day Games you can practice yourself and adapt for your own clients
Developing your own practice - one that sustains your presence, your enthusiasm, and your creativity as a coach over time
Between sessions, you can reach me by email - send questions, send videos for feedback, check in when something needs attention before we meet again. The most fruitful collaborations have real exchange between sessions, based on what continues to arise after we work together.
Format and investment
The work runs in pre-defined blocks. How we distribute the hours gets decided around your logistics - in person in Antwerp, online, or hybrid.
10 hours - €2,497 excl. VAT
Typically structured as:
3 workshops of 3 hours + 1 hour (online) follow-up
4 workshops of approximately 2.5 hours
5 workshops of 2 hours
Several clients batch into longer blocks to make travel worthwhile. We figure that out before we start.
For a focused single topic:
3-hour workshop - €797 excl. VAT
1-hour consult - €297 excl. VAT
To begin
Tell me where you are in your coaching practice/career - what you are working on, what is alive, where the friction is present.
I'll respond personally. If there is a fit, we'll plan a discovery session and shape the format from there.