Michiel Scholtes
Educational background
- General
1993 Baccalauréat littéraire, Lille
1983 Bachelor of History, Univ. of Utrecht
1975 Atheneum, Den Haag
- Nautical
2013 RYA Yacht Master Offshore
2011 CWO III Sea Sailing Instructor
1979 BKHV (navigator short sea shipping)
- Coaching
2015 CTI Certification CoActive coach (CPCC)
2014 CTI main curriculum CoActive© coaching
2013 Gifts Compass Inventory© (application of Jung’spsychological types)
Professional background
Three fields of professional activity:
- Sailing
– Skippered charter sailing barges on the Dutch broad lakes and coastal waters (1975 – 1983).
– Sails as a sailing instructor on Dutch coastal waters/North Sea (1995 – present).
- Publishing
– Publishes articles and books on nautical, social and environmen-tal issues (1993 – present).
- Coaching
– Sails team building cruises on sailing yachts at sea as coach/sailing instructor (2011 – present).
– Coaches individuals on their voyages to personal growth through transformational change (2013 – present).
Recent interventions:
- Jan/feb. 2016 – coach several clients with issues around a.o. burn out, divorce and self actualisation in career and personal life.
- October 2015 – sailed a swan 47 on a week long cruise from the Netherlands to the UK and back with a team of 5 sailing instruc-tors. The objective: enhancement of their self-knowledge, height-ened conscience of their contribution to the team effort, robust spir-it of cooperation through better individual understanding of the group dynamics.
- Summer 2015 – coached a talented and successfull HR-consultant on a search of his true life purpose. The outcome was a recogni-tion and celebration of his hearts desire, an adventurous change of course and a transformed and happier life.