At Soulbatical, we guide you on a loving journey of self-discovery, balance, and inner peace.
At Soulbatical, we guide you on a loving journey towards self-insight, balance, and inner peace. Soulbatical is like a personal retreat that you can experience in your own familiar environment. It invites you to reconnect with your true self, listen better to the signals of your body and mind, and make conscious choices that truly feel good. Soulbatical offers a safe, warm place where you find rest, embrace yourself, and step by step create a life that brings you fulfillment and joy.
With our personalized human design book, courses, workshops, and the coaching we offer, we hope to provide you with a personal retreat that you can experience in your own environment. So that you and the world around you can flourish.
Love,
Albert
#embracethejourney
In 2023, I took a year off. I called this year my Soulbatical. It was a year in which I went looking to see how I could give new meaning to my life.
At the end of 2022, I was tired, exhausted, I had many dark thoughts, and I felt wrung out by the life I was living. I was not happy in my work nor in my marriage. In short: I was not happy in the world I had created for myself. How could this be different?
A colleague saw me working on the project I was working on at the time and asked me directly: Albert, why are you doing this? You don't have to do this, do you?
That evening I sat on a chair and worked out the scenarios:
And I thought, maybe I can live with a Full YES during that time.
That evening I decided that I would live from a full YES for a year.
In the Wheel of Consent workshops (by Mariëlle Spronck) I had learned to truly listen to my own yeses and nos.
I had never done that in my personal life before.
The next day I told everyone I was going to do it: in 2023 I was going to live a year from a FULL YES.
And I did.
Good coaching
I realized it was important to get good coaching during this period. Because I knew I had three things to look deeply into:
I couldn't do that alone. And so I hired two coaches.
A woman. And a man.
I wanted to be guided from two perspectives on this path.
One coach had a high price tag, the other was reasonably affordable. It felt like an enormous luxury: to be guided with so much knowledge during one of the most difficult periods of my life.
With both I got an incredible amount of value for my money. It was beautiful how they guided me. And it was special how much I was allowed to grow.
Somewhere in 2023, a question popped into my head: could I coach a million people as well.
The question arose from a sense of injustice... what made it possible for me to deploy these incredibly good coaches? And why can't others do that. What makes it so that I get access to all this knowledge? But others don't?
I clashed with one of the coaches about the price. I found this coach 'too expensive'.
Too expensive is of course a flexible concept. An unfair judgment about the work of this coach. This coach absolutely delivered value for his money. The love that manifested in many small details, carefulness, always being available to me, was more than valuable. I can wholeheartedly recommend him to you. His talent is unmistakable. The growth he (co-)created in my life is priceless.
And yet I found him 'too expensive'. That opinion kept going through my head.
I now realize that this is in my desire... I so badly want everything I've learned, the processes I've gone through, to be something everyone can learn. That everyone can make their own personal journey, do their own mini-retreat and grow. That you and I can stand in life, from the core that sits within us. That we can blossom.
It almost feels unrealistic, this number. And it seems like a main thing. In some ways, it clashes with the 'being' that I love so much. Life isn't about numbers. And yet, in some ways, it is. There is that deep desire to make a big impact with Soulbatical.nl. A big impact in the lives of very many people: at least a million.
This is the path I'm embarking on. Will you join me on this journey?
Love,
Albert
#embracethejourney