Welcome

Welcome to Windrose Coaching.
Windrose Coaching helps you to find your true North;
and discover insights that make you grow.
A full-circle horizon gives a clear view;
and room for joy, for the wind in your hair,
for reflection and silence: in this way
you learn how to trust your inner compass.

I am Peter Fokkens.
Certified Servant Leadership Coach and tallship captain, with a background in education and public health. Especially my time at sea taught me a lot about personal growth, leadership and teams. During my career I have coached managers en teams in a corporate environment as well as in government departments and NGO's.

My love for the sea, together with my philosophical interest, showed me the beautiful symbolism of the four wind directions. That proved to be a great metaphor for discerning qualities, pitfalls and challenges.
Clients laud my experience, keen questions and quiet, that gives them room to reflect and effectively grow in a safe setting.

As a captain and coach, I have "sea legs": experience, knowing your strength and a feeling for the flow. That's something many people crave, and everybody has that 'power spot'. I love the challenge to discover yours together.

Life Coaching

What does development mean for yóu?
Do you suffer from stress overload?
Do you doubt your career choices?
Does your relation need recharging?
Are you struggling with conflicts?

Leadership

What can you do to be a good leader?
How change from management to leadership?
Where can you find new sources of inspiration?
How do you use the power of connectiveness?
What do you need for your career plan?

Teamcoaching

How do you define team quality?
How do you change from taboo to accountability?
How can you establish real communication?
What can professional autonomy bring to your team?
How can you bring talent to bloom?

Life Coaching

Life coaching is all about change. That's trying for everybody. It requires recognizing your talent and discovering your added value, but also professing restricting thought patterns and acknowledging personal limits.
What are your drives, when do you bloom? Windrose coaching gives you a better grip on your life and brings your goals near.
What could be better than finding your true north?

Coaching is always tailored to your needs. At a free intake session we determine together your goals and a number of sessions, based on your budget.

Leaderschip Coaching

Developing leadership is a process of trial and error. Good leadership adds value to stakeholders as well as co-workers, and society as a whole. Good leadership means maintaining a steady course without turning the wheel too much; a combination of drive and inner peace.
Captains of our time meet great challenges in managing complexity and making sustainable choices. That calls for a good balance between cognitive, economic and social intelligence. Windrose Coaching helps to tune your inner compass.

Team Coaching

The crew on board of a tallship is a great metaphor for every team, in every organization. Windrose Coaching uses that metaphor for team coaching, based on the symbolism of the four wind directions, showing personal and cooperating skills fast and clear.
By means of an in-company training, but even more effectively during a trip on a real tallship, Windrose Coaching gives every team the proverbial wind in the sails. The setting is inspiring, breaks through restricting patterns and brings new opportunities to light.
A trip with Windrose Coaching strongly appeals to open communication and critical self-reflection. Everybody has the same responsibility for a good result. Team coaching makes you find the role that brings out your talents best.

Windrose Test

The symbolism of the four wind directions and the archetypical roles on a tallship are the means for a coaching method that uses a simple and surprising personality test.

The Windrose Test shows you the roles that suit you best.
Curious? Take the free test as a prelude to a fruitful coaching program.

Are you interested in just the test? Download the Windrose Test.
Mail the completed test to us, and we'll contact you.

Take over my fathers business? The world was open to me, but I had to many possible choices. Which qualities bring out my talents best, what should I focus on? The coaching sessions with Peter brought clearness, and taught me a lot about myself. It made me decide to take over my fathers business. With success!
Joost van den Broek, Gouda

More than one reorganization had put too much pressure on our team. The communication and atmosphere were hardly bearable; too many people took a sick leave. With the help of Peter and his co-coach Thea we could reflect on the team in a safe setting. That brought us more than we had expected. It took some hard confrontations and intense emotions, but that cleared the air for a new start. Now we can find each other again.
Kees Middenkoop, Den Helder

My boss wanted me to take a more responsible function. I hesitated. I'm still young and relatively inexperienced. And now I would lead a whole department? I asked for a coach. Thanks to Peter I gained more self-esteem, and learned how to apply my talents. Coaching was the best investment ever!
Geke Kamperduin, Groningen

I built up this company together with my brother, and we were facing a new fase. We got more international assignments and started to think in millions instead of thousands. I was in charge, and wondered if my brother would be able to cope with the transition. I faced a dilemma that I couldn't solve on my own, but Peters questions led me to finding answers that I never had thought of. In just a few hours I got a better insight than in all the sleepless nights before.
Jan Desmet, Deventer

Servant Leadership wasn't a known concept in our management team. Everyone ran his or her own department as a solitary king, along the traditional hierarchical lines. By Peter we got acquainted to a more facilitating way of managing, which suprisingly stimulated the dedication and trust of our co-workers. That became crystal clear when my department, by some unfortunate incidents, ended up in a severe crisis. It was wonderful to see how Peter succeeded in reestablishing the newly gained trust. It took some face-to-face honesty that some of us found very difficult, but in the end it delivered real positive change. It was a magical process, for which I still thank Peter very much.
Nienke van Groningen, Den Haag

Our company works with plant managers, managing projects all over the globe. For budget reasons they had to cooperate more, which appeared to be harder than expected. On a sailing trip from Dublin, Ireland to the Orkney islands they were truly depending on each other and had to cooperate, in order to manage the ship, which they ran under supervision of the professional crew. Peter's Windrose Test finely showed everyone's strengths and weaknesses. That, and the extraordinary character of the sailing trip, gave insights that stuck. Within five days they learned more than in several in-company trainings, that cost the same. This they'll never forget!
Henk Versluis, Utrecht

Appointments, Tariffs, Conditions

Every coaching process is tailored to the client. Based on an intake on site we give a detailed estimate for the time and money involved. Complex assignments are executed with more than one coach. For on-board team trainings a suitable tallship will be engaged.

Panta Rhei

Windrose Coaching is part of
Panta Rhei
Groeneweg 141
2801ZB Gouda
0031 182 725 735
0031 650 218 695

Contact us at
info@windrooscoaching.nl