Dear Founders and Leaders

What if you could experience a profound sense of relief, one that strengthens your inner calm and resilience?

And what if, by doing so, you could inspire the people you love and lead them to feel the same energy?

The Deep Seat offers a transformative space for visionary founders and impact-driven leaders to engage in powerful journey-telling alongside a global circle of impact leaders.

Together, you’ll move beyond the ruptures—both internal and external—that drain you, toward meaningful repairs that elevate and sustain you.

The Massive Impact of Ruptures on Relationships

Every leader experiences ruptures in relationships—some stretching back to childhood, others more recent, with partners, children, friends, or colleagues.

Research shows that when we ignore inner pain, it doesn’t disappear—it echoes through our relationships, businesses, and even across generations. Unresolved struggles manifest in our bodies, decision-making, and leadership styles, subtly shaping the way we build and run our businesses.

It’s a ripple effect. And it’s time to break the cycle.


Your Challenges:

  • You feel like you’re always on full speed, struggling to slow down.
  • Stress has become so normal that it spreads through your closest relationships.
  • You lack a space to deeply connect and share what truly occupies your mind.
  • You feel numb, disengaged, or exhausted.
  • You get easily triggered, find it hard to regulate your energy, and feel unsteady.
  • Productivity—yours and your team’s—feels stuck in patterns that don’t serve growth.
  • The same issues keep repeating, both in your personal life and business execution.

What if these struggles aren’t just “the cost of leadership”—but signals that something deeper is asking to be repaired?


Take A Deep Seat: The Art of Repair

Ruptures are inevitable, but most leaders were never taught how to repair them. Instead, they echo through our systems, creating misalignment on every level—personally, professionally, generationally.

Impact-driven leaders are uniquely positioned to change this. Elevating your state of mind allows you to unlock a deeper level of wisdom. Your leadership style is not only enhancing the relationship with yourself but also with those around you.

“Denying your wounds comes from the same source as your power.” — Adrienne Rich


Own Your Edge

In the Deep Seat Sessions, you’ll face the challenges you may have unconsciously avoided. This impacts the very state from which you lead.

  • Experience the profound power of sharing impact journeys with the deep trust that arise
  • Gain awareness of your triggers and projections. Learn how to recognize and regulate them so you can lead from a place of smart and intuitive energy, instead of reaction.
  • Surround yourself with a trusted group of global leaders who elevate each other’s capacity for growth.
  • Move beyond intellectual learning—practice staying present in high-stakes situations without losing your sense of balance.
  • Master the art of building solid, lasting relationships; at home, in business, and beyond.

By cultivating a more regulated, resilient leadership approach, you’ll stop being driven by stress and start leading with stability.

“Regulation will bring joy again.” — Thomas Hübl


The Deep Seat Session Format

Each session follows a structured yet deeply personal process:

  1. One leader brings forward a real-time challenge focused on a rupture (15 min).
  2. Fellow leaders ask insightful, non-judgmental questions (15 min).
  3. The leader in the Deep Seat reflects openly on the questions (15 min).
  4. The group offers perspectives from their experiences (25 min).
  5. Concrete synergies and strategies are defined to bring home and to the business (15 min).
  6. Closing & integration to ground insights (10 min).

This process unlocks a new level of self-awareness, helping you turn triggers into treasures.


The Benefits of Deep Seat Leadership

  • Master emotional awareness and regulation—stay steady in high-pressure situations.
  • Strengthen relationships—at home, in business, and in your community.
  • Transform stress into strategy—learn to lead with clarity, calmness, and confidence.
  • Enhance collective intelligence—activate and integrate the wisdom of fellow founders.
  • Turn breakdowns into breakthroughs—use ruptures as fuel for growth.

Who Is This For?

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only a few will leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

The Deep Seat Sessions are designed for:

✅ Founders, leaders, and C-suite executives who want to lead from a deeper place
✅ Leadership & management teams ready to break limiting patterns
✅ Coaches, health workers, and educators shaping human-centered systems

Together shaping an ecology of regulation and repair will impact all fibers of our current work and pave a solid path for future generations.


Investment in Transformation

🔹 Single Session: €38.50 per person (excl. VAT for Dutch attendees)
🔹 6-Session Package: €199 instead of €231 (excl. VAT for Dutch attendees)
🔹 Your role: You will be informed one week before if you are in the Deep Seat or participating as a listener & reflector.


Meet Your Guide

Barbara van Lodensteijn – Business Psychologist, certified in rupture & repair methods and trauma research (NICABM / Trauma Research Foundation).

The Deep Seat Method is rooted in the pioneering work of leading thinkers, including:
🧠 Janina Fisher, PhD | Pat Ogden, PhD | Gabor Maté, MD | Steven Porges, PhD | Deborah Korn, PsyD | Thomas Hübl, PhD


A Future-Proof Company Needs Both Strategy & Repair

Leaders who master the art of repair expand their capacity—and naturally, the outcomes of their business.

Repair is the strategy. Healing is the art of true leadership.

Are you ready to take your seat?

👉Reserve your spot now: