Annual Training Your True Nature
Do you want to Get the most out of yourself get and you true potential discover? Are you ready to obstacles holding you back to let go and a life to lead to that is in line with your deepest desires? Then the annual training is Your True Nature Exactly what you need!
On the Path to Your Authentic Self
- Self-Discovery
- Authentic Relationships
- Self-confidence and self-esteem
- Healthy Boundaries
Dare to show your true self,
so that you can truly be yourself
and live your life to the fullest!
Self-Discovery
You’ll discover who you truly are, what your values and needs are, and how your past influences your current patterns of thought and behavior. This will help you make better choices that are in line with your authentic self.
Transformation
You'll learn practical techniques to recognize, understand, and change your patterns. This leads to greater self-confidence, the ability to assertively express your needs, and a healthier relationship with yourself and others.
Empowerment
As you integrate new insights and skills, you’ll experience a greater sense of empowerment. You’ll be better able to choose your own path, make your own choices, and treat yourself with love and respect.
Do you recognize yourself in this?
You want to fit in so badly that you hold yourself back, put yourself last, and make yourself invisible. The other person is much more important. So you say yes right away, even though your whole body is screaming no. After all, you don’t want to cause any conflict. As a result, you lose your own identity.
You have trouble expressing your needs, which leads to a lack of awareness of your own boundaries. You focus on others rather than on yourself. Your focus is constantly on what others want, and you neglect your own desires. You don’t even know what you want yourself. You often tend to put others first, putting yourself last in order to be liked.
You ask yourself, “Is it okay for me to say no?” as if you need permission from others to stand up for yourself. You think it’s selfish to say no. You believe the world is going to end because of people who only think of themselves. So, of course, you help. It makes you feel good to be there for others. You’d feel guilty if you weren’t there. Even though you keep your commitments and are reliable, you feel obligated to say yes, even when you don’t feel like it.
You always try to understand everyone's point of view, which often causes you to lose sight of your own opinion. Sometimes you beat around the bush instead of being honest. Constantly adapting to others has caused you to lose your own voice.
You constantly compare yourself to others and feel inferior. You often ask yourself, “Am I worth it? Am I good enough?” The question “Who am I?” also often leaves you feeling confused.
The drive to do everything perfectly, to push yourself to the limit, and to go beyond your boundaries has left you exhausted. You feel compelled to always be the best and the fastest, and to solve problems for others. You never want to be a burden and think you can handle anything. You often take on too much and end up panicking. Automatically, you say, “I’ll just take care of it.” You feel a sense of pride welling up, thinking you can handle it. But afterward, you feel pain in your diaphragm or pressure in your head—maybe even a nagging inner voice. You wonder how you could be so foolish as to take on even more, with everything you already have to do.
“Hey, hello, this is something I’m good at.” But you’re almost too afraid to admit that you don’t really feel like doing it, for fear of rejection. You’re so focused on others’ approval and permission that you forget about yourself. The desire to prove yourself is deeply rooted in a subconscious fear of rejection. This causes you to go to extreme lengths and prevents you from seeing your own worth.
You go to great lengths to accommodate the other person’s wishes, which causes inner frustration to build up, but you don’t show it and just swallow it. Your constant frustration stems from the feeling that you’re being dishonest and not sharing or speaking your truth.
You do everything you can to maintain harmony and avoid or steer clear of conflicts. As long as everything is peaceful and harmonious, you're happy.
We're starting on February 4, 2024!
Would you like to experience this?
You claim your place, stand in your power, and make yourself visible. You listen to your body’s signals and stay true to yourself.
You can recognize and articulate your needs, and set clear boundaries. This helps your message come across as clear and authentic to others.
You take time and space for yourself to truly feel what you desire when you’re being called upon. In this way, both your “yes” and your “no” become authentic decisions that come from within. This brings peace and space to your body—and comes across powerfully to the other person. When your “no” is clear, then your “yes” is also a genuine YES that comes from within.
You use your empathy as a powerful tool to express your truth and make your voice heard. You matter, so you, too, have something valuable to say.
As you connect more and more with yourself and your inner world, you’ll see that everyone is unique and that comparing yourself to others is pointless. You’ll realize that you’re just as valuable as anyone else. Your self-confidence gets a boost by practicing self-care and self-love.
You realize that perfection is an illusion and that you’re doing just fine. You tune in more to your body’s inner rhythms, which means you feel fewer “musts” coming from your mind. You’ll start to sense what you enjoy and what energizes you, which will help you take on less and ensure that the things you do don’t leave you feeling so drained.
You give yourself the permission and approval that you used to seek from others. By recognizing and feeling your own worth, you no longer reject yourself and no longer need to seek validation outside yourself.
You’re getting a better sense of what’s right for you, so you no longer have to go out of your way to please others. You’re true to yourself and you’re standing by your own truth. Frustration gives way to trust and relief.
Imagine if you felt that way right now—what would that be like?
What would that make possible for you?
How much better would your relationships and your social or business skills become?
We're starting on February 4, 2024!
“Let your individuality flourish. Find the courage to set your boundaries and make your voice heard. Discover your worth, free from comparisons. Give yourself permission to be yourself, without striving for perfection. Honor your needs; be empathetic toward yourself. Your truth deserves to be heard.”
This is what the structure of the training looks like
The annual training Your True Nature is a journey to self-discovery, growth, and transformation. The training is designed to help you true potential to achieve and a life to create that fulfilling and meaningful is.
During this year-long training course, you will learn techniques and insights from various disciplines, including inner child work, family constellations and meditation. Due to a combination from live and online meetings, interim assignments and support by the group develop a deeper understanding about yourself, you discover your true nature, and you'll learn how to faithfulness could be to yourself.
Training content
Before you can participate in the training, there will first be a 30-minute intake interview, during which we’ll discuss together whether this training is a good fit for you and our approach.
On the first day, we’ll get to know each other and create a safe environment where you can feel at ease. On this day, we’ll explore your “people-pleaser” identity from a foundation of love and curiosity. We’ll also work on increasing body awareness and meditation.
During this meeting, we’ll learn to distinguish between wounded child parts, adapted child parts, the adult, and the natural child—or, to put it another way, the original and authentic self.
Your "people-pleaser" identity developed during your early years. What messages and projections did you internalize from your parents or caregivers? During this day, we’ll further strengthen your body awareness through practices such as breathwork.
During this session, we’ll explore the different states of the nervous system: responding from a place of safety and connection, from a place of danger, or from a place of threat. Building on this foundational understanding of the nervous system, you’ll be given exercises to help your nervous system respond more and more from a place of basic safety.
Through constellations, you’ll gain insight into what your role was within your family—a role that left you with no choice but to develop your “people-pleaser” identity. And through the “Walking in Your Shoes” method, you’ll gain insight into the healing steps you can take to step out of this identity.
In this session, we’ll be doing tapping based on “you are enough.” You’ll learn the tapping technique and how to use it to bring this positive affirmation into your body.
You are now becoming increasingly attuned to your own body, boundaries, and needs. Today’s session focuses on expressing these boundaries and needs in your relationship with others.
By breaking patterns, we can step outside our safe comfort zone. We invite you to stretch your comfort zone without ending up in the panic zone. During this session, you’ll connect with the resources you can use to do this and, in turn, relax your nervous system.
Over the course of these two days, we’ll all dive deep into the inner world of people-pleasers. What would you encounter if you were to let go of this identity? And how would that affect your interactions with others? You’ll learn through experimentation and play. The other participants will serve as a mirror for you in your process.
Now that we are increasingly in touch with our primal energy, this calls for even greater body awareness and grounding. We achieve this through dance, resources, and regulation exercises. And, of course, with each other’s loving support.
Now that you’re connecting more and more with your true nature, you’re encountering guilt and shame. These feelings want to force you back into your old, familiar comfort zone. Today, we’ll explore how we can develop a healthy relationship with guilt and shame.
Strengthening your innate energy. We do this through dance, resources, and regulation exercises. And, of course, with each other’s loving support.
This will be another day filled with practical, hands-on skills. We’ll wrap up the training with a beautiful ritual.
They went before you
Does this appeal to you?
Still on the fence? Book a non-binding introductory conversation with one of us.
The year-long training Your True Nature
all in a row:
- 6 live meetings from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (36 hours total) in Bergen op Zoom.
Coffee, tea, and treats during the meetings in Bergen op Zoom.
Bring Your Own Lunch - a two-day. This two-day retreat will be held at the Puur na Tuur location in Belgium and includes an overnight stay (please bring your own tent). The program runs from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. the following day, with an evening program and morning meditation.
Food and drinks are included in the price for this two-day event. - 6 online meetings from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (9 hours total)
- A safe bed with the support and guidance of a close-knit group of like-minded people
- Professional guidance by Gerda, Utsav, and an assistant
- Supporting exercises that you can do at home
- Buddy Groups during the training
EARLY BOOKING BONUSES
- a one-on-one session at Gerda's or Utsav's (worth 100 €)
- ask a question during a Setup Day (worth 110 €)
- the book Stop Trying to Please Everyone – Andrea Mathews (worth €23.50)
- online course Dealing with Stress and Emotions (worth 47 €)
Introductory offer: NOW only 1,350 €
instead of €1,950
Payment in installments is also possible upon consultation with us.
- Includes sales tax for individuals.
- Excluding VAT for entrepreneurs, organizations, and businesses.
Practical
Live Data 2024
- Sunday, February 4
- Saturday, March 2
- Sunday, March 17
- Saturday, April 20
- Saturday and Sunday, June 22–23
- Sunday, September 22
- Saturday, October 12
Times: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Online Data 2024
- Tuesday, February 13
- Wednesday, March 13
- Thursday, April 11
- Wednesday, May 22
- Monday, September 9
- Thursday, October 10
Times: 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Locations
Center for Attention and Awareness Ont-Moet
Buitenvest 94
4614 AD Bergen op Zoom (The Netherlands)
The two-day we give here:
Pure after Tuur
Rue de Linsmeau 8
4287 Racour (Belgium)
Individuals (including 21% VAT)
Businesses (excluding 21% VAT + on invoice)
Guidance for the Annual Training Program
Gerda van den Top
My name is Gerda van den Top. I have been training and coaching in business since 1999 and working as a body-oriented therapist since 2007. I enjoy working at the intersection of personal and organizational issues. My specialty is family businesses.
I had many headaches from the age of 12. I called myself the reverse Shorty: every Sunday I was sick in bed.
In 1998 I began my search at the Aumm Institute. There I learned to express myself with all that is, celebrate life, perceive my sensations and say yes to that which presents itself. At the Aumm Institute, I took the four-year course, Co-dependency and Trauma Work. Family, Organizational and Trauma Constellations I followed at Phoenix and Interakt. I follow in-depth blocks in the field of constellations at the Aumm Institute.
Utsav (Tuur) Van Hove
Frequently Asked Questions
The year-long training program is suitable for anyone who is ready to bring about positive change in their life. If you want to free yourself from limiting patterns such as putting yourself last, seeking approval, and pushing beyond your own boundaries, then this training is for you. Whether you’re looking for more self-confidence, better communication, or a deeper connection with your true self, the year-long program is designed to support you on your journey toward personal growth, self-discovery, and empowerment.
The year-long training program may not be suitable for people who are unwilling to work on themselves and make changes to their thought patterns and behavior. If you are not open to self-reflection, new insights, and taking responsibility for your own growth, this training program may be less effective for you. It’s also important to note that the year-long training is not a substitute for therapy or professional treatment for serious psychological or emotional problems. If you’re struggling with serious emotional or psychological challenges, it’s advisable to seek appropriate professional help first before beginning a personal development program.
- Experienced trainers: Utsav and Gerda have many years of experience (more than 25 years combined) in guiding people toward their true potential. They will inspire, challenge, and support you throughout your transformation process.
- Holistic Approach: Your True Nature combines various approaches and techniques to offer an in-depth and holistic experience. We recognize that personal growth is not just about improving one aspect of yourself, but about creating a harmonious whole.
- Long-term impact: The Annual Training Program Your True Nature is focused on lasting change. We want the insights and skills you gain during the training to have a lasting impact on as many areas of your life as possible.
- Community: By participating in Your True Nature You'll become part of a supportive community of like-minded individuals. Together, we create a safe and stimulating environment where everyone can grow and thrive.
- Fulfillment and Success: The Annual Training Program Your True Nature helps you realize your true potential and live a life that aligns with your deepest desires. It empowers you to achieve your goals, experience personal fulfillment, and create success on your own terms.
Our training Your True Nature is designed to help you make the transition to a life filled with authenticity and self-worth. During this training, you’ll learn:
- Self-awareness: Discover who you truly are, what your values are, and what truly makes you happy. You’ll embark on an inner journey and get to know yourself on a deeper level. You’ll discover your strengths, your values, and your beliefs, and you’ll gain insight into how these aspects influence your life. You’ll get to know and understand yourself better, so you’ll feel more confident when making decisions.
- Setting Boundaries: Learn how to set healthy boundaries and communicate assertively without feeling guilty. You’ll learn to say “no” when necessary and ensure that your needs and well-being are a priority. You’ll learn how to protect yourself from energy drainers and how to make time for self-care.
- Self-Love and Self-Care: Develop a loving relationship with yourself and learn how to take good care of yourself. You’ll learn to put yourself first and prioritize your own well-being, without being selfish. By being true to yourself, you’ll strengthen your self-confidence and self-esteem. You’ll develop a stronger sense of who you truly are and will no longer let others’ approval define you.
- Self-Acceptance: Embrace your own unique self and let go of the need for others’ approval. You’ll learn to accept yourself as you are, including your flaws and imperfections. When you live in accordance with your own values and desires, you’ll experience a deeper sense of inner fulfillment. You’ll feel balanced, happy, and fulfilled because you’re being true to yourself.
- Assertive Communication: Learn to communicate effectively and assertively, to clearly express your needs, and to set boundaries in a respectful manner. You’ll develop communication skills that will help you convey your point of view clearly and confidently.
- Authentic Relationships: By staying true to yourself, you attract people who accept and appreciate you just as you are. You build healthy, authentic relationships in which you can be yourself, without having to hide who you are or change who you are.
The annual training program costs €1,350 for the pilot. That's less than 20 euros per hour.
Starting in 2025, the price will increase to €1,950
Payment in 3, 5, or 8 installments is also available at no extra cost; choose the option that works best for you.
Together, we'll work it out so that it works best for you.
Includes sales tax for individuals.
Excluding VAT for entrepreneurs, organizations, and businesses.
In-person classes are held at:
Center for Attention and Awareness Ont-Moet
Buitenvest 94
4614 AD Bergen op Zoom
We'll be holding the two-day event at the following location:
Pure after Tuur
Rue de Linsmeau 8
4287 Racour (Belgium)
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