Francine van Dam

My Coaching Speciality

~Do you have a blockage in your creative flow?
~ Are there any obstructions in your personal life?
~Do you need focus and clarity about your projects and plans?
~In short, could you do better in stimulating, managing and applying your own available energy?


If you are a creative professional looking for coaching, the traditional way is most probably not working for you. Heightened neuroplasticity in the minds of creatives is the reason. Creative thinking asks for a unique and broad configuration of brain regions that don't typically work together, and they are much better interconnected than in the brains of non-creatives.
That’s why you need me, a creative coach!

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About me

About myself & my experience

I come from a family of academics, and still remember my grandfather’s library with 30.000 books…he wrote a dictionary, a never ending work, and in a deep closet he had shoeboxes filled with pieces of paper, every box one letter! I was so proud the day I could hand him two “new words”. My grandmother was the first female pediatrician in Holland, and both parents were medical doctors. I loved to study, the fifth generation to sit at my inherited writing-desk. I did study Latin and Greek while in high school, and later on Arabic out of linguistic curiosity. (a curiosity which led me to speak six languages, and I’m aiming now at the seventh…………).
All this intellectual power seemed sometimes to function for my family as an escape from real life, and even to form an obstacle to emotions and personal development. I very early found my way to music (and art) as a source of major joy, and engaged in personal development as a way of life; experiencing religions, philosophies and cultures on my way. I have been a professional musician for most of my life, bandleader; soloist, composer, producer etc. In the meantime I was always assisting others in finding their way in life, but I didn’t have the professional position nor skills yet to make it effective. After an in-depth study to become a Personal Coach, I have now been working for more than five years as a creative coach, with amazing results, helping clients to move on from their comfort zone, recognize their blind spots and adjust their settings when needed.

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My coaching method & approach

As a coach, I am focused, blunt and spiritual and above all creatively challenging.

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Notes / Remarks

Here's a review from a client:

"Rather than sing the many talents and experiences that make Francine Van Dam an excellent coach, I will simply state what working with her did for me. It made me aware of the vast amounts of energy I spent justifying my every action, to others or to myself (sounds familiar girls?) Francine also challenged me to confront thoughts and/or perceptions that were suspicious in authenticity; those that I had made part of my deceptive social panorama. These misrepresentations were not only limiting; they were also taking away precious energy. On the work to be done outside of coaching time, she encouraged me to investigate, by daily writing practice, these energy “robbers.” The writing also sought to find tools to better confront situations at work/in the world, that caused for me (past histories, PTSD, other), to over react and maximize, once again, pulling away unnecessary energies. The result in healing has been significant. I am “captain” now and know my “weapons”: tools to confront the ever increasing disfunctions of the world in which I live. No longer a human robot, I can, literally, smell the flowers, hear the birds, see the sky, etc. I am finally delving into the being at the core which brings me peace and true freedom. Thank you, Coach, from the bottom of that core.

(female university professor, US)

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