Paul Koeck's blog

Dear Friends, last week, I was visiting the JCI World Congress 2009 in Hammamet, Tunesia with our Belgian Delegation. Looking forward to see you there! I hope to learn lot about Leadership, Coaching and Friendship. Some of you have asked me more about my JCI Training opportunities. You now can see for free a video recording of my latest Training “Strategic Leadership at the JCI Training Forum 2009 in Istanbul at www.coachteam.com/jci . Paul Koeck, IG

New pictures have been posted at: http://hammamet.jcitienen.org

Tonight I rejoin my friends at the European JCI Conference in Budapest in the Corinthia Hotel till saturday evening.  Looking forward to learning new insights and discovering old & new friends. If you are there, leave me a note at the reception so that we can meet.

At the facutly of philosophy, Hannelore and I became friends. After dreaming away in the worlds of possibilities that philosophers create with words, we went for a drink in Café Erasmus, right in front of our faculty of philosophy (Hoger Instituut Wijsbegeerte) in Leuven. The second half of the day, or maybe night, we would change the word during our nightly meta-discussions. This year, we rediscovered eachother and she offered me her last CD recording - she does with music what I do with people: create a context for inner harmony.  That night, I returned home and discovered the harmony and peace that came over me while listening to her. So, instead of buying an exotic commercial relaxation CD, I would recomend you, my friends, to consider her latest CD: “Hannelore De Vaere -- The Fellowship“. It Reminds me what reasearchers found out recently as one of the best cooping strategies for dealing with post traumatic stress: listen to your favorite music. It appeared to be more effective than most official “relaxation” techniques. Paul

Hannelore De Vaere:

Another thing i loved as a child, were my piano lessons. When going to the University, i quit for a while, but some days, I will come back to my old passion. My Cousin made me discover an interesting book about piano teaching, written by a guy who analysed how his 2 daughters got piano teaching from Claude Debussy’s former personal assistant. Genius, has almost always been mentored by genius! Another interesting book is that of Karl Leimer, who summarised his method of teaching to his student Walter Gieseking in the Leimer-Gieseking Method.

Dear Friends,

I created this blog to keep you informed about things happening in my life and sharing my reflections with you. I will start writing you as soon as I find a free moment to do so.

Paul

Dear Friends, Last year, I fell in love with Tango. For those who love to dance tango, i found some free video classes.  They give a lovely introduction into the basic tango steps, which i share here below. For those, who love the music: a friend of mine composes delicious Argentinian Tango Music, discover Joke’s compositions online. Paul

Tango Classes by Dario

Tango Music by Joke van Oirschot:

Paul Koeck, MD, BA, is president and founder of Coachteam® International. He works as business coach for top-executives, and is in surplus an excellent therapist and physician. He created the Coachteam® philosophy ’Goal-Directed, Solution-Focused Coaching‘, being the pioneer in Europe in Solution Focused Coaching for Business Leaders & Organisations! Paul defines the keys to success clearly: ‘Successful people know what they want to achieve, how to get there, how to mobilise thé required resources and … they dare to be thé Captain of their soul’. Dr. Paul Koeck is an authority in the field of business & career coaching and competence development. He is a frequent keynote speaker, coach & trainer on international scientific conferences and at universities, all over the world. His model and techniques are used in different continents, countries and languages. He is the creator of several expert systems for managing the change of human behaviour.

Paul studied medicine, philosophy and sports medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain. After his management studies, at the VLERICK School for Management, he was profoundly trained in systemic coaching, brief therapy an hypnotherapy in Europe an the U.S.A.

As a trainer, consultant and coach he served important business leaders and organisations like  Alcatel-Lucent, KPMG, BASF, Siemens, Borealis, IBM, Swift, Nextiraone, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Banksys, HP, Junior Chamber International, Haribo, Proximus, Belgacom, Delta Lloyd Life, Generale Bank, Belgian Military Police, Anco, Givi, Axias, IPPA, HBK Spaarbank, Vlaams Centrum voor Kwaliteitszorg,  Socialistische Mutualiteiten, Onafhankelijk Ziekenfonds, Arenberg Group, Partena, Prayon Ruppel, Pandora,  … He coaches fluently in 5 languages: Dutch, English, French, Spanish, German and studied Italian, Portuguese, Latin, Esperanto, & Russian.

Radio Interview with Dr. Paul Koeck about digital stress: Part 1 -  Part 2