“When I started out looking at the field of self-improvement, self-help, coaching and spirituality, I was pretty sure that this was rather easy. But not only was it a lot harder to really find out what exactly I wanted to do, never mind how to really structure my life differently and how to be true to myself. Who was I anyways?”

“I did not want to help children and youth cope with a broken system but instead, I wanted to help build a new model for learning and living.”

“We usually think of being addicted to substances, like alcohol or drugs. But you can also be addicted to food, television, sex, sports, our smartphones or work, just to name a few. From the point of view of the Enneagram – we are even addicted to our personalities, our perspective on the world.”

“We use whatever way of behavior and being in the world makes us feel safe. As children that may be the only way we know of how to keep ourselves safe, but as adults these initially adaptive limitations become self-imposed prisons. What in children was adaptive in adults becomes maladaptive.”