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Hi, my name is Chris. I'm providing & connecting ideas & possibilities and offer inspiring meetings & conversations to create progress, develop projects and create opportunities for your business or personal life.

Come and join me for a Co-Inspiration session!



About

Chris has degrees in psychology and creative entrepreneurship, experience in banking, co-directed an alternative business education program for personal growth and sustainability in Hanoi, Vietnam; and currently works in a scenario planning consulting firm.

Over the last 10 years he has lived in, and facilitated hundreds of hours of workshops and one-on-one sessions in the US, Vietnam, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal.

As Founder of Co-Inspiration he runs processes for people and organizations to support each other with ideas, inspiration, unthought-of solutions, questions, resources and connections in order to create new possibilities, overcome challenges, realize potential and burst open tunnel visions in personal and professional life.


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WHAT I DO

I invite you to inspiring conversations for personal growth, creating & bouncing ideas, develop solutions, invent products & business ideas, generate progress…. anything that involves coffee, excitement, creativity, (co-)inspiration and information. How? By using / doing some of this:


IDEAS, CONVERSATIONS & TEAMS

Bouncing ideas | Generating insights & creative solutions | Mastermind groups | Idea coaching | New perspectives


TOOLS & GROWTH

Psychology | Mindfulness | Lifehacks | Habits | Technology | Productivity & procrastination | Optimizing & systematizing | Support for entrepreneurs & startups


INFORMATION ALCHEMY

Mindmaps | Helpful resources | Curated ideas & condensed information | Research | Consulting | Brainstorming

NOW


IDEA COACHING

We meet for inspiring conversations and identify where you are and where you want to get to. I listen deeply, ask powerful questions and give practical feedback. We bounce and create ideas how you can generate progress, establish positive habits, overcome obstacles, develop solutions and create progress in your life or business.


TOOLS

I support you by using my background in and passion for psychology, mindfulness, entrepreneurship, coaching, ideas, mastermind groups, mind-maps, productivity, consulting, technology and innovation.


INFORMATION ALCHEMY

Following each session, I create a (mind-) map for you with curated information for your explorations, identifying ways forward and supporting you along the way.

IDEA COACHING


IDEA COACHING

We meet for inspiring conversations and identify where you are and where you want to get to. I listen deeply, ask powerful questions and give practical feedback. We bounce and create ideas how you can generate progress, establish positive habits, overcome obstacles, develop solutions and create progress in your life or business.


TOOLS

I support you by using my background in and passion for psychology, mindfulness, entrepreneurship, coaching, ideas, mastermind groups, mind-maps, productivity, consulting, technology and innovation.


INFORMATION ALCHEMY

Following each session, I create a (mind-) map for you with curated information for your explorations, identifying ways forward and supporting you along the way.

3 MINUTE MEDITATION FOR INCREASED FOCUS


There is a wonderful meditation technique that allows me to get into deep pure awareness in just 3 minutes.

I use it to “momentarily deactivate” my brain during 25 minute high-focus work sessions (See: Pomodoro technique), recalibrate my focus and stay productive. (Below are links for 3 minute meditation audio files that you can use during breaks.)

From Inc.com:
“A study in the journal Cognition reveals that people can maintain their focus or “vigilance” much longer when their brains are given something else to think about every 20 minutes. […] This trick is called momentary deactivation.”

The technique is called “Just Note Gone”.

In the past I used to meditate by putting awareness on an object such as f.ex. my body sensations or breath. After a short while I always drifted off in thoughts, and got annoyed that I’d been unable to keep focused on my object of awareness. This was very frustrating.

When I practice “Just Note Gone”, I pay attention to the ending of sensations / thoughts / sounds / tensions / etc., and mentally acknowledge the ending with “Gone”.

Whenever I notice the release of tension in the body, I mentally comment “Gone.” when the tension is gone.Whenever I notice that a sound just stopped, I mentally comment it with “Gone.”The same when I’ve been drifted off in thoughts: In the moment I notice that I’m drifted off, I mentally comment “Gone.”, and am back in awareness of my body sensations.
The most powerful thing about this technique, for me, is that I don’t get frustrated that I’d been drifted off in thoughts. With other meditations, I drift off in thoughts, realize that I’d been in thoughts, and feel annoyed. With the “Gone” technique, I celebrate the return of presence, and the opportunity to practice noticing “Gone”. It’s a radical shift in connotation about drifting into thoughts: from frustration to celebration, and using it as a tool.

Explanations:

Short explanation by Chade-Meng Tan, out of Timothy Ferriss’ book “Tools of Titans”

More detailed explanation by Shinzen Young

Audios:

3 minute meditation, 3 minutes of ocean waves

3 minute meditation, 60 minutes of ocean waves

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