Business? Protect your people

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Hello, I'm Philip Mast.

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I'm urologist in Belgium and I had the

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opportunity to test myself the '15Minutes4Me.com'

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program, which was very helpful in my personal view

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and in my personal experience to get out of

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negativism and get positive again.

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It was very important for me.

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It broadened my horizon.

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It put me back on the rails

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and was a very, very good experience.

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It helped me in contact with my patients.

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It helped me also in my daily practice and with the

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patients, with my employees and also in my private life.

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It helped me to get positive thoughts, to

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get a new or a better feeling.

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And it was necessary to do it every day.

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And it helped because it was also

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very easy to do at home.

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It has a lot threshold and it gives excellent

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results if you persist and do it every day.

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You told me that you have several patients that you refer

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to the program, and you told me some concrete samples of

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what people told you how it affected their lives.

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Can you expand on that?

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Well, the negativism got away.

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They were thinking differently, and they were forced

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by the program to think positive and positively.

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And this has a great impact, they told me, on

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their life because they got out of the shell again

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and they were able to put some context.

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They have a positive self esteem again, and

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it was very important for these people.

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They told me also that you have to go on

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with it for quite a time, and afterwards it gets

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automatically positive thinking another way to view things.

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And if it gets worse because you don't do it

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for a while, you can put it back on and

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go again and have a good effect of the program. Yeah.

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So you mean that if someone stops a little bit

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too early and they have a beginning of a relapse

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that they can take on take on again and that

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they will go on the rails back very quickly again.

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Then you told me one other example.

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You told about someone of your patients that

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you did not only see psychological effects, but

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that even physiological energy went up quite shortly

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after they started the program. Right.

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Because I saw them while having running, and

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she looked very bad at the first time.

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And then I expected her to say that she had to go

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to the program '15mins4me.com', and she did it.

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And the weeks afterwards, she looked very much better

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and told me afterwards that it was very helpful

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to get her in the positive thinking again, and

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physiologically and physically even she was better.

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Yeah.

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So you see like a kind of double impact,

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because on one side, the program works on the

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brain patterns and the thoughts, but indirectly it has

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a kind of physiological effect on the brain.

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I think the brain works better.

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It has more power to do with

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the other things than thinking negatively.

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That was my experience too when I was getting on

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the computer to do it that for myself the negative

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ideas went away and the positive thinking gives you more

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possibilities of having your brain work better and do things

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that you need every day working, running, to do some physical

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things have envy to do these things and not got

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back in your shell.

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If you look at your patients and you would

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compare doing this daily automatic exercise with this program

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compared to going to a psychotherapist, what are the

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differences, what's more useful when according to well I

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think that the low threshold of these possibilities with

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'15minutes4me.com' is an amazing great thing

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because otherwise you go once in a week once

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in a month to a psychologist or a psychiatrist

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and afterwards you don't have follow up here you

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give your own follow up every day and that's

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helps in getting these positive effects.Okay, great.Thanks.

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Okay.

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Hello.

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Nice.

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Yeah.

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Look, we've been working on this program for a while,

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and I wanted to exchange some ideas with you to

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see if we can share some with public about the

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program, because I just want to tell you one observation.

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At a certain point, we had developed the first version

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of the program, and I invited some of my private

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patients to come at the same time to me and

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at the same time do the online program. Okay.

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So the online program and the sessions with

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you were in parallel, so to speak. Yeah.

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Because I was curious to find

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out what would be the difference.

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And then one person after two weeks, came to

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me and she said, wow, it's like having every

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day a ten minute session with you.

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Yeah, that's right. I can't imagine that.

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But that's one of the big advantages of program

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like this is that there's a little push in

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the right direction every day so you don't stop

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if one wants to change in the right direction.

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Some days are more difficult than others, and we are

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tempted not to do anything, not to do the exercise

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we should be doing or not to think about the

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things we should be thinking about what area.

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And whereas if you get this little

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small boost every day, then the good

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new habits will start much more easily.

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That's what reminds me, because one of the things that

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we put as a central key was your ID.

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That psychotherapy is not about finding a

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solution, but it's about first finding a

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solution to create a new habit.

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And at once you know how to develop a new habit.

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You still have to train it.

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Just like when I'm doing muscle training, if I would

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only train my right arm muscle, I will have a

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hypotrophic arm and my left arm will be underdeveloped.

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Absolutely.

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And that's the impression that I get with clients

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who are doing the online program, at least if

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they have the motivation to do daily exercise, because

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they get the invitation and it's up to them

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to choose if they want or not.

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But one interesting thing with this program is

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that you get the invitation every day. Yeah.

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So when you are invited every day, while that's human,

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you are inclined to respond to the invitation, whereas the

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invitation, you have to do it out of your own initiative.

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Yeah.

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And especially what I see with patients or

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people who have appeared when there is an

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anxiety attack or there is a deeper depression.

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What happens quite often in real life is

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that they will stop thinking about their progress

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and even they might cancel an appointment. Absolutely.

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But with the online system. Absolutely.

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It's like every day they get a reminder, and even

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if they would skip some days, it's like one day

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they will push the link again and they get restarted.

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Yes, absolutely.

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That's a big advantage of this kind of program.

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Yeah.

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Because quite a lot of people ask me this

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question, why would I go for an online program?

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And I found some answers because I've seen businessmen,

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for instance, who are disciplined to do daily something,

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but they don't know when the business settle the

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clients don't allow them to do a certain point,

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and that makes it easier for them.

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It's one of the observations that I made.

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Also question of a personality style.

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Some people like to confide in someone else.

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They like to talk with someone else

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and get advice from someone else.

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People like that probably will benefit a lot from

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face to face psychotherapy, but also people who want

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to take their life into their own hands and

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who say, I want to achieve this only I

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need some advice on how to achieve some guidance

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on how to achieve this.It is like compass and a map and then I will go my journey.

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Each day, it is like compasss and a map.

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Then, we are on the road of our own life.

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Every day there's some fork to take.

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So if every day you have this small input, then there's

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no chances after you say on the right way, then if

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the input comes only within a point and every two weeks.

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Yeah.

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So actually, if I try to summarize that, what

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you were saying is that personality style, that some

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people rather like to have a talk, while other

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people rather need guidance on our map.

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And some people prefer to be more self driven

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and others take it from the empathic relationship.

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Absolutely.

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That might be a difference.

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Why one has an inclination to an online program.

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Probably both are beneficial as well from an online

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program as from a face to face psychotherapy.

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But one will be more inclined to choose

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the one than the other, but both will

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be beneficial and build both cases, I think.

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Yeah, that's true.

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So you could even combine both if you want. Absolutely.

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Some other topics that I was thinking about

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is what I saw when people come online

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for the program, what happens quite a lot is

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that people seem to be quite confused about

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what's the difference between stress

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and depression and anxiety.

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And quite often we see in real psychotherapy

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practice that there is a mixture of both.

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In most cases, there's a mixture

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of anxiety and depression are very

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closely related, also neurophysiologically.

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And what happens in the brain when

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anxiety and depression is very closely related. Yeah.

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It's like similar areas in the brain. Similar biological mechanism.

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The same drugs that we use for treating anxiety. Yes.

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For treating depression.

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And in large manner, the same drugs because the processes

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in the brain are so similar. With this explain

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I remember that some years ago you told me

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about your research that you did in the hospital.

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Actually, it was on alcohol addiction. Yes.

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And one of the things that was quite remarkable when you

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told me is that you told that after several years you

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do a follow up study that those people who say that

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they got success with the treatment, that most of them also

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say that other problems than the main problem for what they

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came, like anxiety or depression, others also got solved also if

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they did not directly work on it. Absolutely.

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That was a very interesting finding, that while

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we treated people for the alcohol problems and

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they solved these alcohol problems, our programs, I

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must say, are very brief.

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People if they are hospitalized for three weeks or if

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we see them on ambulatory basis, they come to the

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hospital to speak with the doctor or the psychotherapist or

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whatever, the number of sessions is also quite low.

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It's not more than five sessions in general.

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So there is no time to speak a lot

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about their depressed state or their anxiety or whatever,

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which most people with alcohol problems also have here.

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So there's no time to treat these problems, too.

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And what we found and that was extremely

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interesting is that when they solved their alcohol

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problem afterwards, they showed that they also could

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solve their own other problems on their own.

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Once they have started solving their problems,

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they don't need anybody else.

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They don't need to come back

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for another both of therapy.

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Would you say that this is like they learn

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to learn to solve problems and this is something

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that the program like this can do. Because

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on one side they learn to learn to solve problems.

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And then my question would be how would you

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explain them that they are building these habits in

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such a way that they will not relapse?

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Yeah, that's a very interesting question, too.

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We have that question about the habits foundation.

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Well, to put it very briefly now we can discuss it

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at all the point we can discuss it a little more.

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But to put it very briefly, what happens is that whatever we

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do when we do it repeatedly, one can say that's a habit.

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Sequence of time you repeat the same, it becomes a habit.

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So we can get into the habit of having anxiety

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attacks, for instance, when some situation presents itself, or we

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can get into the habit of being depressed when there

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are too many problems facing us over there.

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So you can say that whatever we

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do when we do it repeatedly becomes

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a habit, even disconnected from the origin.

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While we start to have anxiety the

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first time or depression the first time,

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it can become a habit and treatment.

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Our self help should rather focus on breaking the old

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habit and establishing a new one rather than looking for

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establishing a new habit instead of the old habit.

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That's something that occurs in the brain.

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When we make a new habit to,put up very briefly,

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make a new habit, there are new connections that are made

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in the brain, and these connections need to be repeated.

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That's again, why a program

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like this is so interesting.

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Because each time you repeat the new habit,

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it becomes better established in the brain.

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So if you repeat it very often every day,

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for instance, it's much easier to

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establish it in the brain.

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And then when this new habit is made,

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then the old habit is still available.

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But the new habit comes instead of the old habit.

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And it's just a question of choosing.

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Do I want to be depressed or do

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I want to go to scuba now?

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It's like you have a switch and you can choose.

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It may still take some effort,

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but you can do it sometimes.

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It doesn't take any effort anymore because

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the switch stays under right position.

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Yeah, if the new habit becomes

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more sexy than the old one.

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Absolutely. Quite interesting.

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Hi, Kathleen.

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Happy to see you here.

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And I'm very grateful that you want

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to share some of your experiences.

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You are a happy mother, a proud mother

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of three children, a happy family, and

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you have a career in international company.

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And as most people in Western society are doing, we are

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rushing because we want to be the best mother and to

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be a good employee and to be a good colleague and

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to be a good manager and to be good in everything.

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And at a certain moment, what I see as a

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medical doctor quite often and what we see with the

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'15Minutes4Me.com' program, a lot of people, they

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hit the borders of what our body can take.

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And for some people, they go and burn out.

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Others get anxiety, others will get

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depressions or other psychosomatic problems.

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In your case, it was mainly burn out.

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So that almost from one day to another, your body

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said, okay, I don't collaborate in the game anymore.

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And I'd like to have your experience.

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What I want to learn from you and also to be able

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to share with people who view is what was helpful to you.

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So what did you learn from that experience?

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And in the second stage, what did

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the program contribute to this help?

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So what in general was helpful to you and how did

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you find a program and how did that contribute to what

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you wanted to change and what you wanted to reach in your life?

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So I think if I understand correctly, Paul, your

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first question is around what did I learn from

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the overall experience, from the burn out itself I guess? Yeah.

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And especially from the experience and what helps because

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of course, it's more useful that people learn about

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what helps than the diagnostic or the medical part.

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Yeah.

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So I think certainly that what I think, which

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is very important, is that you try to prevent

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it, because if you are for the people that

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are going through it, they probably already know.

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For the people that are for the moment,

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experiencing very high stress symptoms, it's not a

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great moment to hit the wall.

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So as you mentioned, you don't see it coming.

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If you hit the wall, it's too late.

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Now, the good news is that you can get out of it.

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I'm kind of a proof of that for myself.

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You can get out of it if you follow the right step.

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I hear all the stories of people who don't do that.

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And I can also share that because I come across

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also people that have had a burnout, and then you

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still see that there's still some remaining issues that they

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are tackling, and then you still wonder, didn't you get

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the right help or what have you missed or what

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was different for me, that I don't seem to have

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these remaining anxiety problems or remaining stress symptoms.

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That's interesting.

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We certainly want to go deeper on that one also here.

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So for me, what I noticed is, okay, you go

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into a burnout and then you're confronted with yourself.

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So I had a lot of medical support, and one

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of the big questions that was asking me is what

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are you going to change in your life?

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That's the question that doctors are the

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people who try to help you. Yeah.

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That's quite tough because at that moment

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in time you're not feeling so great.

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Let's say that you're not in a solution state of mind.

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You don't find that quickly solution.

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So on your own, that's not so easy to go

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through that. Do you mean, like it's probably the most

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important question, but at that time it's almost like too

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early to answer it or too difficult?

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I think it's too difficult

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because you're not feeling okay.

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You don't know exactly what caused it.

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So you first need some relief before you can what

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I hear you say, it's like as if it's a

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process in different stages where in one stage you need

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to relieve the body and in a later stage you

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will need to address that deeper questions.

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Yeah, certainly.

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So there's certainly a resting part in there.

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What really helped me with the online program is

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it starts up quite slowly in the sense that

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it explains you at the start a lot of

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concepts about how your mind works.

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And those were things that

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I actually didn't know before.

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So you mean that what was helpful for you?

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Is this what we call in our technical words

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of psycho education, where we teach in simple, non

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medical words how the brain works and what happens

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when you get into either burnout or depression or

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anxiety so that you have an understanding almost like

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biologically what's happening. Because I think something is going

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wrong with your heart or with another organ.

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You get quite a lot of

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great explanations from your doctors.

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I didn't get a feeling when I had a

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burnout that these type of explanations were given.

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And actually you can consider it's an organ as well.

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And it works in a certain way.

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And the more you understand it, the more

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as well you can work with it. Yeah.

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So the understanding of the biological, let's say the simplified

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explanation of the biological parts of the brain, that was

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very useful to you. It is very useful. Certainly. And then the fact that it

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is daily, I think that is very crucial. Yeah.

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Has that been important to you, the fact

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that you have a kind of daily structure

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or support or something at home?

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I was in the case, I was at home.

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I can imagine when people are not at home

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yet, but still you are struggling to survive, to

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survive your stress into that moment in time.

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It's great to know that you have a 15 minutes

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daily help for yourself or moments of reflection and that

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you don't need to wait for what is it a

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typical one month before you see your doctor again?

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Two weeks or three weeks.

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It's in the evening again that you get

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some information or an exercise to do.

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And that is a little step.Because

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that's interesting what you're saying, because your

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experience like this daily report was important.

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And sometimes people who didn't follow the program,

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they asked me this kind of question like, but

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don't you need this human relationship?

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How can a program be useful?

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Some people say this must be very

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anonymous, although I hear some people who

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experience the program say the opposite.

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How did that relate in comparison

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with someone guiding you live?

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But you have to drive there and

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all the consequences because it's daily.

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But it's a program.

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I'm not saying that one

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can always substitute the others.

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I also use the face to face support.

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But I do see it certainly has a very big compliment.

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And I can also understand for people that are

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not in a situation that I was already if

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I would have known of this before. Yeah.

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More preventive. For more preventive that

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it's probably you don't want to

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go and see whatever psychologist, coach.

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That's what I hear from many people.Because

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you don't feel that you're ill, you don't

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feel that it's the moment to see them.

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Yet there's still taboo around it.

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And in that case, I think it is very easy to

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start off this program and you probably see even quicker benefits

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than in the case when you're already deep in it.

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Yeah, that's what I've heard from other people also.

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But what you are saying is that

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this daily support was very important.

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So the fact that there was every

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day some type of a guidance. Yeah.

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Also because what I also liked is that you start to

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kind of test to see how you are different levels.

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And it shows it very graphically.

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In my case, I think it was very confrontational

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to see that I was not doing great.

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I already knew that consultant with that as well.

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And then actually, you see, because of your

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daily follow up, you see an evolution.

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And I think that is fantastic.

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The fact that you have a kind of feedback from

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yourself to yourself through the program. Then you see actually

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that it's paying off and it's a quite quick evolution.

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I'm not saying you go immediately from red and

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to green and so not what is happening.

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But you see that through the actions that you

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are taking, you see that you are slowly but surely okay.

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How does it feel like you have

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to motivate yourself to do it?

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Was it difficult to of course, you get your

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invitation by email, but you still have to decide

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to take action to keep following the program.

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Was it difficult or was it pretty easy? It's only 15 minutes.

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Yeah.

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So I think when you're at home and 15 minutes

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is certainly not a lot, when you are still working.

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And so I've heard of other people that have followed it

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then even then the 15 minutes is not a lot.

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Do you also get feedbacks of colleagues,

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who follow the program and who

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are still more in the preventive state?

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In the preventive state, yeah. Maybe.

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Do you have some reflections on how because it's

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interesting to hear how you experienced it, but if

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you have feedback from colleagues, how they experienced it

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as a kind of more in an earlier preventive

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stage? How does it work for them?

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I think it's the same.

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The first thing that was interesting for them is to

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realize that they did have a problem and then that

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you can also work on that job because there's so

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many different places you can go to.

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But there's not a lot people don't

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find a lot of trusted places.

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There's quite a lot of people

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that have followed your programs.

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So you do have some evolution over time.

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There's some research that has been done so that builds

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kind of a trust for people to start using it

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because you have to get over that first fear of...

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Was that difficult for you when you were looking on

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the Internet to decide what to find, which program or which

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solution to trust, or was it a difficult search?

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I think for me, I looked at something which

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seemed to be built by someone who has experience

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in the domain and where you see that there

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is a continuous effort on improving the program and

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that also does thorough reflections on the subject itself. So, I think that was for me.

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Of course, there are other solutions available, but still,

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I think you have to do your own market

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research to see if it fits your needs.

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And for me, this was a great and easy

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solution for a reasonable price to sell, because I

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think that is an easy you don't need to

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buy immediately for whatever, six months or so. Yeah.

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You can decide one month, and if later

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you say no, it's enough, it's enough.

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If you want more, you can step in for another month.

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It can be immediately or much later.

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That's what we tried to do to leave choice. Yeah.

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And it's not like this membership where

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you didn't see the small numbers.

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It's not easy to so you can stop it.

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You can also pick it up again if you

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feel that you want to pick it up again.

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So at least you are, because the people that

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are using it, I would say, are in quite

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a fragile situation and you don't have the feeling

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that somebody is taking advantage of you.

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So you can stop it if you want to stop it.

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You can start if you want it. It is an open game. Exactly. That's good.

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Now you were telling me about that

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daily structure was helpful to you.

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What else?

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Or the information in the beginning, what more was helpful

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in the program and how did it help you?

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How did it impact you?

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What I really liked and which was not

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even, I think, marketed as much when I

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decided to use it was the body system. Yeah.

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The feedback. The feedback from bodies from you

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select who are the people around you that

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are going to support you through your process.

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And it actually helped them to know how to support me.

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So the fact that we teach in small

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videos, the family members, YouTube, your friends who

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are your buddies, that they got some more

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instruction on how to be helpful to you. Yeah.

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And you see, I actually didn't know that

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you received videos, but it did help.

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It was interesting.

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I didn't know.

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But I could see a change in the

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way that they were interacting with me. With you.

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Yeah, that's interesting because we try in the program because

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we want to see how can we help people and

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use their natural system and natural resources and family and

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friends are natural resource, and that's the goal.

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But it's pleasant to hear that that's

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really the way you experience it also.

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Yeah, because it also, I think, clarified a lot

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to them of what is going on with you,

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which is not something that you can always explain.

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It's not they are going with you

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to a doctor's appointment or whatever.

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So in that sense, I truly felt a change

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in their interactions with their way of supporting you.

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That's interesting. That's very nice.

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I remember that he once mentioned to

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me the self reflection aspects, that it

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helped you look different at yourself.

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Could you tell something about how that works for you?

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Yeah, I think in the self reflection, I probably

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didn't mention it now again, because it has become so

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natural for me to do this now.

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So I think the most important part of

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my 15 minutes is that it's about learning

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new behaviors that you then incorporate in your

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DNA and that you then continue to use.

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So the idea is not that you're going

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to use this and then forget about it.

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The idea is that you're going to change the way that

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you are. So self reflection can be a lot of things.

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One of the things that I think that I realized

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for myself that learning to say no in every type

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of circumstance is not an easy thing to do.

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So through the program, you learned to put

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more boundaries and say no to people.

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It's already discovering that this is I think the

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first step in the program is always observing certain

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behavior, which was interesting for me as well, because

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we have the idea that immediately we need to

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change something, which is quite difficult actually.

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But if you already start by

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observing behavior that you have.

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Yeah, it goes slower.

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It goes slower, and it's much more mindful,

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and you're a little bit milder on yourself.

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So certain behaviors, and then you

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decide for yourself that you actually have

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choices of shooting for another behavior.

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And I think in the first step realizing

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that, okay, I have difficulties to say no.

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Then you observe that for some time, and

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then you can realize, okay, what's another type

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of behavior that I can have?

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That's interesting.

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You always make me smile.

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Because when you are telling this about saying

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no, I was thinking did we include this

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as a topic in the program?

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And I don't even remember.

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So I would assume that this was

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some self discovery that you did by

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answering the questions and observing yourself.

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Because it's not something that we certainly

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not in the version that you were

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attending, because since then it has evolved.

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But in the version that you are attending, we

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never said that saying no is an important thing.

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So it seems that it's something that you are subconsciously...

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There are a couple of questions every day.

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I don't remember them by heart, which trigger yourself

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reflection and then you can listen for yourself, certain

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behaviors or things that are getting into your way.

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And I think this is an example of something that really...

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Because do you remember how long is it to go?

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Is it more than a year or more years?

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It's actually almost certainly two

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and a half years ago.

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That the program. It's interesting.

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I forgot that it was already so long

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ago because then you have a better overview

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what it makes on the long term.

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Because sometimes people say, yeah, I'm going to do.

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Sometimes people by mistakes, write me an email

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and say your course or your Elearning.

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But I did never design it as an Elearning

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because you are familiar in companies with Elearning.

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What's the difference between

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this program and Elearning?

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Because some people think because there's

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also some videos in the program.

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So some people think it's something like

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Elearning, but it's different, I guess. Yeah.

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Because Elearning is really a training you would train

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someone on, I don't know, stress management only.

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I'm not saying that there's no aspects in there which I

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would rather consider as mentoring, someone who has a lot of

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more experience in it, who is sharing techniques on how you

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can better manage your stress, how it would be easier for

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you to get your mind to slow down.

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There's a couple of techniques that I can think of.

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What is the big difference is that I

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would rather call it some kind of coaching

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mode because it's self coaching mode.

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It's you in person behind the camera.

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It becomes quite personal in that way.

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And through the questions, you trigger people to reflect

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and bring them to their not you're the expert.

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But I think there's solution part of their

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brain that activates the solution focused thinking areas

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in the brain.Because otherwise I mean people that are

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in this phase are in their reptile brain

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and they don't find solutions anymore.

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So that's why it's stronger, I think.

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I would certainly not consider it as an Elearning.

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I wanted to hear what was your opinion?

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Because sometimes people are confused. Because of course most

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of the things on the market are Elearning. Yeah.

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And it's quite difficult to explain to people what's

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the difference because you learn some techniques, but it's

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not sure that you will integrate them in your

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daily life and in all the different contexts that

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you are going to work and professional.

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And I seem to have impression that you could

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integrate quite a lot of those things as well

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in your private life as in your business life.

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Because I remember that you once told me because

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we did this interview in Dutch language before.

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And I remember that in the Dutch interview you told

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me something that there were things that your daughter or

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one of your children were taking over, all those things

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that you indirectly were learning in the program.

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And then at a certain moment, I don't know,

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there was an incident that on the table.

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Your daughter at certain moment said, let's

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do this or that. Several things that

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we learned or that we adapted.

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I think one of the things that we did

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is sometimes we ask each other to ask nice

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stories about the day of people determining their day.

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So it brings it back to the positive part.

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So otherwise you always focus on the problems.

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That's something you still keep as a ritual.

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I'm not saying that we're doing that every day,

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but at regular points in time, we ask them

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and the children, it's funny because they even start

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a conversation themselves, and they will also notice when

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somebody is not replying to the question.

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So being very mindful towards children, if

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my husband is, for example, not answering,

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they will ask very nice questions.

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And how is your data?

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You haven't said anything, so it's quite helpful.

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So you can translate actually.

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And I think that is the challenge for each one of us.

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You follow the program and it's not like

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sets of rules that you need to follow.

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You can then see how it works for

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you and then adapt it to your situation.

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So these things that your children, for instance,

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were learning indirectly, was there some conscious effort

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that you said, oh, I want to share,

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or did that happen spontaneously?

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How does that work?

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I think to me it happened at the start very

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spontaneously because to be honest, my day didn't consist of

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a lot than the things that I was learning there.

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So you want to share of what is

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going on and what you are learning.

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And it brings you back in a

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nice way because before you're ill, your

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children don't understand what is going on.

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And I think then they saw a shift as

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well with me learning new things, bringing it to

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them and creating an interest on their side.

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And then I think later then you reflect

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back on what I learned from it.

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And you also realize, well, if you want to prevent

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your kids go through this, which you certainly want to

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do, then there's certain things you want to teach them.

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And then it's about how to go about

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it and how to explain the concepts and

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in a way that children also understand and

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they understand much more than we usually think. Yeah.

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That's amazing.

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In the beginning because the program

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is not designed for children.

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And one day there was a father of a 13 year old.

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They asked me, can my son follow your program?

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And I said, I'm sorry, I really don't know.

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But if he wants to try and he needs more

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help, I will step in and maybe you can help.

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And actually, afterwards I heard that this was probably

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pretty much your 13 year old kid, but it

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seemed to have been working, and I even had

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recently I met someone where mother and daughter were

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both two children, although it's more made in a

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language for adults, but indirectly, it seems that it

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affects sometimes other members in the family.

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Okay.

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So there was the daily aspect of

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self reflection, and then after that, you

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jumped into your normal business life.

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And so now that you look back two years and

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a half later, other things that you want to add

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or to make the picture more complete, or do you

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think that you have mentioned the most important things?

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I think what I did realize, coming back to

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work and then coming into contact with other people

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that went through burnout or depression or had very

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high stress symptoms, that there is a wide variety

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in how people are helped and what information they

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have and what they know about it. Yeah.

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And it does seem to have a big

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impact on the success rate of view of

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feeling good and being very effective, efficient.

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What do you mean with wide variety?

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I'm not sure if I understand that.

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Well, there are big differences.

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So you have people who recover well because in

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your company you can compare with one of the

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highest burnout ratios in our company, in our industry.

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So there's quite a lot of

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people that I can connect with.

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And then you see differences in you have people

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that are absent for a very long time. Yes.

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Sometimes two, three years that people are absent.

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That makes me feel sad because most

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of those cases could have been prevented.

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And as a medical doctor, that hurts. It hurts a lot.

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And also it hurts me to see that when they come

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back that they are not always fully recovered and they have

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such a high risk to fall again, that's interesting because it's

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maybe not about the program as much, but I have a

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vision, but I would like to hear your vision on it.

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If you now after this experience, you see a

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person that you say this person has recovered well

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and has finished the process in the right way,

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and this person is going to have a relapse.

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Do you have an idea what makes you

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predict the difference, how you can see the

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difference between both groups of people?

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Because I see that a lot.

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I'm not trained as you are, but you do see

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a lot, even in just meeting the people and talking

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with them in the way they interact with others and

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the way that they put a lot of limitations on

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themselves, the ones who are going to relapse for me.

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So it's like they are overprotective always putting strong boundaries

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on what is possible and what's not possible, talking a

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lot about their burnout, saying that they need to do

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a lot to prevent a new burnout.

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So they're already talking it's happening

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or they want to convince others. Yeah.

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Or want to convince others and they need to be put

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in very protected jobs with not a lot of stress.

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And to be honest, that's what I always say,

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like, okay, where are those jobs without stress?

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And how do you define stress?

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Because I think even a librarian can have stress.

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So where are you going to end up if

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you're going to put these limitations onto yourself?

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So for me, there is still a lot of

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work for these people to do to work on.

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How do I see stress?

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How do I work with stress?

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And it's unfortunate to see that they didn't get

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these lines throughout the period that they were ill.

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Now I don't see it from the negative side because

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I also know that there are options to solve this.

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I really hope that these people find a

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way to create support for their specific situation.

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But it's unfortunate to see but it reminds me,

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a colleague of mine who is also in burnout

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and stress management medical doctor also, he calls that

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some of those people, that they have the missionary

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syndrome, like if they're on a mission and they

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want either to convert others to the way they

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are cured and then the other ones were overprotective.

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And I have the impression that is quite often and

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that's what we try to avoid with a program.

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Many ways of helping are normative.

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And they say how the end result

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should be and what someone should reach.

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And by putting norms, I have the impression that they

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stay within the problem because if you enter a burnout

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quite often, it's because you up to perfectionist or you

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want to do too much and so on.

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And if there's not this spontaneous self reflection that

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we try to facilitate partially in the program, then

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you are not correcting yourself to where you want

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to be deeply, but you are trying to adapt

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to a norm, just like in the traditional medical

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medicine where the doctor makes a medical prescription.

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And if you have a cancer, you have to

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hope that your doctor makes that medical prescription because

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there is a probably the best solution.

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And if you need antibiotics, it's probably best

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that the doctor prescribes the right antibiotic.

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But in stress related issues, if you don't find the way

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you want to be yourself and you cannot align who you

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are with who you want to be, then you will probably

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repeat the same mistakes and quite often it makes me suffer

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that so many people get in the hands of people who

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have good intentions in coaching others.

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The most risks I see quite often if they have

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been coached by ex burnout patients or people who have

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had the burnout but did not recover themselves and then

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start a coaching practice, I see that quite often.

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For instance, if I look at you now here in the

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interview, it's like you are grounded in your body and yourself

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and those people who did not yet finish the process.

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You see there is some tension,

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there is some cautiousness in that.

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That's interesting.

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Okay.

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Any other things you wanted to share?

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No, I think that's it then I thank you a lot.

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I'm very happy that you want to

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share your experience with some people who

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want to know more about this issues. Thanks a lot. Okay.

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You're welcome.

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I am Hadewig.

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And I found 15Minutes4Me on the internet.

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I had the diagnosis of burnout and there was not so many

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help to find at that moment.

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So I started looking myself

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for a self-help thing

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and I found it on the internet.

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So I filled the form in with all the questions

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and that made me want to start with

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the first part of the program.

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And I finished the program because I really

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liked to do everyday 15 minutes for myself.

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It gave me the feeling of bouncing back,

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although I felt very tired and

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I could not do anything in the first month.

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It was the first light at the end of the tunnel.

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You can say that

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the name also was interesting for me

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because it's something we don't do enough

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taking some reflection time for ourselves.

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And that was the thing I needed, I think,

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on the whole to reflect

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after being busy for so many years.

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And then the content of the program was also very helpful

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because it first went into the direction of

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What did you do today to be grateful for?

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And I found that it was not so difficult

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to find something to be thankful for.

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And well, if there is some one thing to find,

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there are more things to find, mostly.

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So that gave me some confidence for recovering.

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And well, I kept doing that and I found that

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there are many things that can help me.

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And what I found also is that when I don't do it so much,

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it is better for me.

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I'm the kind of person that does too much.

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And this program helped me

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making me ignore with some rest.

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And now I'm stuck.

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I think 15Minutes4Me has added a tremendous amount

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of value to my life.

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On a professional basis,

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It's helped me to proactively
prepare myself

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mentally, in fact, for each day.

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So by spending just a few minutes
every day

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to go through the program and to ask the questions and to consider

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some of the goals that I could set for myself, I was very well

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prepared for the next working day.

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I was very well prepared.

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In fact, I had outlined the goals that I wanted to achieve

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for my day, the priorities that I had set.

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And when the next day started, I immediately knew which goals

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and which parties I wanted to
work on first.

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So that's on the professional side, I think on the personal side,

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it's really helped me to think about taking the steps

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to really just build in those moments, to take up sport,

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to go for a tennis lesson, and to build in some relaxation

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moments with friends and family.

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It helped me to also plan ahead better with those things

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so that I had, in fact, a more optimal balance between professional

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and personal life.

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Great.

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That's quickly.

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That's fine.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I think.

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And we'll do the same.

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What else I had to know.

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It's still recorded, but I let it go and then I will cast

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afterwards. Yes.

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So Guita, you are attending this coaching program with me, this professional

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coaching program over some months, what was the value that it

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What was the value that you got from it?

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How did it impact you and your professional behavior?

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Well, I think through discussions together, my own mental

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models were really challenged.

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I could reflect better on how I viewed certain aspects and

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the professional and personal environments.

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And by challenging my own mental models, it gave me a fresh

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perspective to take back with me to my work environment and

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to my personal home environment.

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It gave me a new way, in fact, of looking and questioning

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all activities on a day to day basis.

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Furthermore, I think if I look professionally, it provides

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tremendous insights into the way that internal communication

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in your team or an organization can be more structured.

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I've also understood the roles better between being a leader,

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a mentor, or a coach, and how you can really assume different

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roles in different types of meetings and also which situation

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calls for which type of role.

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So I've learned to greater understand those roles and to

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be able to use those in practice.

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And how did colleagues perceive this process?

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When did they start to notice?

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And what did they notice?

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And did you get any feedback from them?

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Well, I think those are my immediate surroundings really

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notice that I was more focused on achieving priorities.

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That I set for myself.

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I think colleagues appreciated the greater openness in communication

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between us.

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They appreciated being asked also for their insights,

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for their input on the way of structuring the meetings together.

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I also learned far more than I would have, had I I not asked them

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for their insights and input.

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So I really realized and understood the value that additional

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questions and additional techniques can have in the work environment.

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Okay, thank you.

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Hi, Gita.

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Nice to meet you here for a short talk.

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You have been studying at Vlerick Business School

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and you are working there.

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And at a certain point, you started the self

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coaching with the '15Minutes4Me.com' program.

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And I'd like to hear from you.

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What did you do in your life

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as well, professionally as for yourself?

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Because it's a strange experience.

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You talk to a machine, it's like something automatic.

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And a lot of time people say

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that should be something very impersonal.

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But the goal is to connect you with yourself.

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And I would like to hear

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how this experience was for you. Yeah. Okay. Well, yeah.

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Good morning, Paul.

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It's great to be here again.

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I think if I look back at the entire experience,

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probably at first I was quite surprised that a lot

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of the interaction would be via an online tool, which

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in fact, immediately triggered my interest because I had never

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worked with such an online self coaching program before.

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I think the personal moments

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are built in on a monthly basis.

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I found it a really great combination because the tool enabled

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me just to spend 15 minutes every day reflecting on what

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I'd done during the day, but not only reflecting on what

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had happened, also taking the time to look ahead and to

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prepare myself mentally for the next day.

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So do you mean that the process what happened for

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you is that it helped you reflect better on the

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past, the recent past, and connect better with what you

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want to focus on in the future?

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Yeah, I think it was a combination of both.

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In fact, probably it was more future focused, I think, which

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was also great because it was a little bit learning from

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the past, but really focused on, in fact, learning from the

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past, looking at what is really good in day to day

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activities on a professional or a personal basis, keeping those in

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mind, and then seeing, in fact, where the difference lies in

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reaching and doing what you still need to do to reach

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and to achieve the goals. Okay.

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And how did impact the practical, daily

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way you are working or dealing with people?

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So you say I was more aware of my focus,

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so I'm curious to find out what that did to

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you and how that led to you interact with the

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world, with your business, with your colleagues.

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Yeah, I think it sharpened by taking a few minutes

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each day to think about the next day's priorities.

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Experimentally, it sharpened my focus for the next day.

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So immediately I knew what was at the top of my list.

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I woke up each morning with a clear

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goal, in fact, in mind for the day.

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That was something that I had not

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done on a regular basis before.

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So perhaps at moments, but not

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in a structured, natural way.

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And so doing, in fact, by being better prepared,

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it helped me to interact with my colleagues in

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a far more relaxed way because I knew that

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I was in control of the day's agenda.

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I knew what I wanted to achieve.

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I was more clear in front of myself as

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well about certain goals of meetings were planned.

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So it's like because your brain was more focused on what

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you wanted, on your priority and your outcome, you are more

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present with people and better able to be connected with yourself

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and with the goals at the same time.

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Something like that.Yeah,indeed. Okay.

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That's interesting.

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Did you notice either from people in your

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private life or in your business environment, did

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they observe some minor change or something?

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Well, the feedback that I received, in fact, from

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those closest to me and also those who I

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work with was that, one, I was far more

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focused on achieving what I set out for myself.

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And two, that I was very open

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to share what I was learning.

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And there was a lot of appreciation, in fact,

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there that I was sharing some of the experiences.

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That's interesting. Yeah.

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So let's now move to your other experience

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as a professional in a business school.

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You asked me at a certain moment to come

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for a business coaching, professional development coaching, and I've

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done the same school as you did. That's where we met.

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Also the first time at certain moment, you asked me if you

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would work with me as a coach, how would that work?

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What would you do?

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And some months later, you called

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me to start the project.

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And I'm curious to find out the

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learning process of interaction.

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So it was combined with the '
'15Minutes4Me.com' program.

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But there were these monthly sessions where you came with

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some questions about where you wanted to go and how

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to go and how to reach your professional goals.

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For 2 hours, we were interacting

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and I was listening to you.

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I tried to understand and to help you

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guide through different steps in the process.

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And I'm curious what came out for you

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and how did that happen for you? Yeah. Okay.

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Well, I think what came out in general of

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the process is a built in reflex just to

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prepare myself on a day to day basis.

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I think what I've also learned is that you can

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challenge yourself far more than you remember each day.

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So I think through discussions, it was very interesting to

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learn about the amount of knowledge, what I said tools

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and principles that can be applied, be it in meetings

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with colleagues, be it in your personal life.

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And I think in the business of our lives, we

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forget that there is so much that there are so

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many concepts and aspects to consider on a daily basis.

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So a few examples, I think on the one

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hand, professionally, and this is very evident, of course,

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but when one is wrapped up in a role

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that is between more of a market facing role.

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Sometimes the internal communication feels

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a little bit less important. Yeah.

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Because in your work you have a marketing

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aspect, but also internal communication aspect of it.

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Yes, indeed.

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So I think what I really learned was that

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never ever is to lose sight of the importance that

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internal communication role plays and the power and strength

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of communicating openly, regularly, consistently using a repetitive agenda

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of points to be discussed each time.

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I think if your open communication, if your internal communication

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is strong, then you can go to the market.

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Yeah.

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Because that's what often happens with professionals.

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They get a focus from their organization.

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For instance, if they get a focus,

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you have to go to the market.

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It's like we have a tendency to focus on our brain,

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on the market and we forget where the whole picture is.

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And it sounds like what you are telling me is

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that in this coaching process you reconnect better the full

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picture, the full process of what you had to achieve.

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Absolutely.

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So that's really some of the basics, but some of

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the basics that are forgotten when we're in there.

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What's interesting to me, I've always been fascinated that on one

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hand, you and I, we went to a business school, and over

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the years I had a lot of clients who at the same

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time were doing an MBA program at the Vlerick Business School and at

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the same time called me for a coaching.

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I was always intrigued to find out

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what's different, where is it complementary?

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Because why would you do two types of developments,

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sometimes even in the same moment?

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For you it was years ago that you were a

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student at the school and you came for

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coaching later, but I've seen both processes happen.

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So how do you see this?

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What's the difference and it's value

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of each of those components? Yeah.

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Well, I think probably there's no, let's say, chronological order

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if one has the coaching inside before you come to

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follow a program at Vlerick, you're very well equipped in

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the sense that you really know yourself well and you

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know your limits and how much you can take on

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and what you're capable of achieving.

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And at the same time, I

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think it's a fantastic combination.

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If you come to Vlerick because you're searching for

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more knowledge, in fact, to apply to your professional

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life, to your team, to your organization. If you

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couple that with a very strong understanding of how

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you can best interact with people and how you

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can best organize your life and find the balance,

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then I think you have a strong, willing combination.

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Could I summarize it like this, that at least

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my experience was that when I was at the

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school, I learned the big strategic maps.

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I learned where to position the business, what

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strategy to follow on a macro level.

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And I often had the impression that when people

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came here, they were trying to find out. Ok.

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Now I know the strategic maps.

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I know what would be good for the

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company, for my business unit, for my department.

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And now I need to learn to take the

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leadership to convince the people in my staff, people

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who are not in my staff, people that I

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have more or less formal influence on.

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And to make those things that I

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strategically learned in my business education happen

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in real daily business life.

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Is that more or less how you experience it?

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Yeah, indeed.

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So, in fact, a lot of our programs also

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concentrate on this material, but I would say that

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they probably do not go as deep on a

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personal basis, and that's where coaching really comes in.

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Yeah.

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So the real skills if I talk to you,

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how do I get this interaction going in the

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details of the interaction, and how do I make

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leadership with this or that employee specifically?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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In fact, as you mentioned, with strategic frameworks,

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if you want to be successful in implementing

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strategy, it's all about having your people aligned

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and on board with you as a manager.

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And of course, and then it's important to find

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out how do I do that with my personality?

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Because everyone has different strengths developed

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during childhood, during previous experiences.

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And often I have like this feeling

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that it's like a software upgrade.

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It's like when Windows, the first versions,

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were not adapted to the Internet, because

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there was no Internet in the world.

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And then every time there is a new upgrade,

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you can say, why do they need an upgrade?

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Because the world is changing and because you

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need more different interfaces with the world.

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And so quite often when people after the

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last coaching session were wrapping up, I had

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the impression that what they were doing was

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like an upgrade to the next level of

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leadership or professional development or something like that.

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That's more or less our new experiences. Yeah.

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And related to the coaching process,

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what did you learn from colleagues?

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How did they perceive the process?

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Well, I think my colleagues were not immediately aware.

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There was minimal impact, let's say, because I

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was doing it online in a very short

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period of time, 15 minutes a day.

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That was I could sometimes do that occasionally during

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the working day, but most often, in fact, during

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my private time where I could sit at my

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ease and quiet focus on the questions.

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I think that they were surprised by some of the

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new emails that I sent asking more for their opinion,

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asking more for their feedback on how we might best

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better structure meetings together and what was really interesting, by

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opening up and by asking for their feedback and input,

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I learned to understand them better as well. Okay.

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It was a reminder, in fact, of

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the importance and the power of continuously

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always checking, of course, with your colleagues

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which approach works best of imposing

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an approach or immediate style.

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So what you describe in here is that the

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process for your environment starts in a rather invisible

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way and I often get demands of companies who

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say we want to do a big coaching program

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where it's very visible that we are doing coaching.

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And my personal tendency is to start low profile because

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my experience is that if you announce change there is

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a lot of resistance and if you first develop small

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microdynamics of changing interactions and people after two or three

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months start to be surprised, hey, there is something different

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in the way this person is approaching me and I

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like it that it gets a better momentum.

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So the promise is lower the public promise,

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at least because there is no public promise.

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It's almost like someone steps almost

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invisibly in the coaching project.

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The manager knows, the person knows, but you don't communicate

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too much that you are doing it and then only

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after a while when people start to observe a difference,

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then you can start to share your knowledge and teach

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them something of what you learned.

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Is that what you mean? Absolutely. Yeah, indeed.

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That's good.

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And in fact, with many colleagues as well within

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the broader circle, if there was ever a question

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or a concern then immediately, you can indeed share

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a different perspective and yeah. That's great solution.

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Yeah, thanks a lot for sharing. You're welcome.

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It was great.