WHO IS OPEN HEARTH?
Open Hearth Coaching exists to support people in obtaining clarity on what they want for their lives and guides them in finding strategies to take the next steps toward.
At Open Hearth we know and have experienced that life can be and feel lighter, easier and more joyful and we have the experience, skills, knowledge and tools to help you achieve the same.
We do this by encouraging you to increasingly get to know yourself. When you understand and learn to deal with your emotions, triggers, limiting thought patterns and behaviors, you are greatly empowered to make better decisions and choices and create healthier relationships with yourself and with others. In short, your life can be and feel totally transformed.
OPEN HEARTH’S STORY
Open Hearth Coaching & Workshops was founded by Ingrid Kruiter in 2019.
Ingrid Kruiter (MA, Bsc) is a certified NLP Life-Coach and Systemic Work Facilitator. She is a trained facilitator of workshops and breath-work and has prior work experience in international development, human rights work, strategic and operational management and leadership in corporate settings. Ingrid has worked with hundreds of people through private coaching sessions, group workshops, trainings and wellness retreats since 2017.
Ingrid cares about how people give meaning to their lives and what energizes, aspires and ignites them. She has learned how perceptions, limiting beliefs, thoughts and behaviours can stand in the way of realizing our true potential in our lives and how they affect relationships with the people around us. She has worked on and transformed these patterns herself and supports her clients to do the same.
She is passionate about assisting others in identifying what is holding them back and awakening their own potential in every aspect of their life. She wants people to experience life in a more joyful, lighter and easier way.
Open Hearth is a play of the words Open Heart and a Hearth (fire place). As a coach I open my heart to you and your process so you can feel safe to open your heart and reconnect with who you truly are and what you truly want. A hearth is a perfect place for an open heart. To me the hearth symbolizes everything that coaching stands for. It’s a place to come together, to connect, share, learn and reflect. The sparks light the fire inside you. A hearth warms and it’s energy transforms.
Traditionally it’s the place to nourish yourself. So come join me with an open heart(h)!
INGRID’S STORY
I have always had an interest in how people give meaning to their lives and exploring different ways of life. When I was much younger this manifested in a love for books and reading.
Towards the end of my high school years (and after giving the community I was from a bit of a hard time by questioning everything they held true) it translated in a desire to open my eyes and spread my wings into the world beyond the small Dutch town I grew up in. I got the opportunity to work and travel in Australia and New Zealand where I tasted freedom (while working a dozen odd jobs), appreciated being alone and enjoying my own company, met people from all over the world with all their different ways, beliefs and experiences, planted an ever-growing love for nature and outdoors and learned how to carve my own path away from what I was ‘supposed to do’.
I ended up choosing not the most obvious academic trajectory of Religion Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Conflict Studies & Human Rights and loved the enormous richness of these courses.
I spent over four years on and off in various Latin American countries and did research into the Guatemalan Police Force and the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Colombia amongst other projects. I worked with the most courageous of human rights defenders and community organizers and did strategic consulting for an international development organization in El Salvador and Kyrgystan (Central Asia).
In 2013, I landed in Kenya and what was supposed to be a 6-month assignment for a human rights organization, turned into eight years of making Kenya my home. I moved to hold various operational and strategic management positions at a FinTech, yet the interest in people and how people give meaning stayed with me. The step from leadership to coaching was a small (though not that obvious at the time) one.
I trained with Kuunganisha Training & Coaching from 2017 and this was a life transforming and deepening experience. After having experienced the powerful impact of coaching in my own life and seeing the transformation in the lives of people I had worked with while in training, I was committed to continue spreading the power of coaching to ensure others can experience the same positive impact in their lives. This desire and commitment lead to the founding of Open Hearth Coaching & Workshops.
There is power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMA
Former First Lady
WHAT DOES OPEN HEARTH DO?
I create spaces to support people in understanding themselves better. I assist my clients to obtain clarity on what they want for their lives and support them to get insight in the behaviours, thought patterns and self-talk that hinder them living their full potential. I guide people to discover new and empowering perspectives that allow them to take the next bold steps in their lives.
How does Open Hearth do this?
Open Hearth Coaching offers a wide variety of services and we continuously add and can customize services for you. Life-Coaching can be done in a private session, active and creative group or team workshop and also through breathwork and systemic work or at a wellness retreat.
Except breathwork which is done in-person all other modalities can be done online, in-office or combined with a nature walk.
Ingrid has a vast repertoire of coaching techniques she combines to best serve her clients’ needs. We’ve used her in the past for workshops with some of the partners we work with in our organisation and the feedback I got was always excellent. This week I had the pleasure to have a breathing session with her – a great experience that I hope to repeat soon. Whether you’re looking for a workshop facilitator , a life coach or would like to do some breathwork yourself.
I can highly recommend Open Hearth
SABINE GUNTHER
Country Director Peace Brigades International.
Open Hearth is guided by the following principles
HONESTY
I will not hesitate to point out to you when I notice certain patters or behaviours that are contradictory or not aligned with what you want for your life. I will do so respectfully and with love and with the sole purpose to support your process.
MY COMMITMENT TO YOU
I will support you to commit to yourself and to living your best life. To assist you in experiencing life in a lighter, easier and more joyful way. To motivate you to take the actions you need to take to truly be and do you.
I commit to making that as easy as possible for you. I will be your encourager, cheerleader, biggest fan and -when needed- uncomfortable mirror and accountability partner all at one.
You will have my full attention in the time we have together and my care doesn’t stop when the session finishes. I commit to the principles mentioned above.
Ingrid is an amazing coach. My experience with her was a wonderful and life changing experience that made me aware of what I could achieve by having a different but customised approach to the goals and ambitions I have.
I would highly recommend her if you’re looking for that personal touch, professionalism and someone who will walk the journey with you as she’s truly passionate about changing your life as much as you are. Investing in coaching through her will give you more value than the investment cost itself. She’s the coach who takes time to understand your needs and offers a great personal touch!
MARGARET GITHINJI
Product Manager (Stockholm)
MY DREAM FOR THE WORLD
I want to live in a world in which people can truly be, understand and have compassion for themselves as such positively impacting the relationship with themselves and others.
