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Dorien
De Vidts is an international speaker, trainer, facilitator and coach
in the field of communication, personal leadership and wellbeing.
Home in Belgium she enjoys traveling, making music and magically
inspires the presence of people who have the pleasure to be around
with her. She is a certified “Infinite Possibilities” coach by
Mike Dooley and shaped the workshop “Infinite Possibilities –
Creating a Fulfilling Life” which is on March 8th
in Vienna, Austria. More about this, here: http://slidesha.re/LWaUnH
As
a co-host it's a pleasure to ask her a few question about the
upcoming workshop.
GW: What does
Infinite Possibilities mean for you?
Dorien De Vidts:
Infinite possibilities is about the amazing potential we as human
beings have to craft our lives into whatever we want it to be.
Everything is possible. It makes me think of a quote of Audrey
Hepburn, she says <Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “
I’m possible”>. That is what it means to me, whatever we want,
whoever we want to be, it is possible if we truly believe it in the
core of ourselves and put our hearts and minds into it and take
action. I realize it sounds like such a cliché and clichés are
clichés for a reason, there is truth at the heart of them. I
remember when I wanted to become a trainer after only one year of
real work experience. A lot of people told me that I was too young,
that it wasn’t possible now. They probably had a point, however I
decided to keep believing it was possible now. A couple of months
later I met people in the training business that gave me a chance.
What can
someone learn from the Infinite Possibilities workshop?
This workshop is
about creating the life you want to lead. I truly believe we all have
that capacity. In that sense it might not be about learning something
completely new, it’s mostly about reconnecting to that capacity
that is already inside of us. By connecting to ourselves, to our
dreams and passions we can consciously create our lives day after
day. The workshop offers that opportunity to reconnect, to stop and
pause and to play around with some fun and inspiring practices that
support us to create fulfilling lives.
Is there any
requirements or things you appreciate a workshop participant should
have?
Very simple …
an open mind :)
When you do /
decide / dream about something new, what is your preferred style of
learning?
When I do/
decide/ dream about something new, it’s very important to include
all my senses and not to focus on one learning style. Brain research
has proven that as long as you intensely imagine something, your
brain can’t tell the difference if it’s imagined or real.
Imagining means more than just seeing it, it’s about involving all
your senses. When I think about a dream I think about where I am when
that dream is realized, who is with me, what I am seeing, doing,
hearing, smelling or even tasting and most importantly: what I am
feeling. Research has proven that our heart is at least as important
as our brain when it comes to creating our lives. More about that at
the workshop ;)…
Do you have
some locations or an environment where you enjoy the present most or
which are particular resourceful for you?
I think it’s
not necessarily about an environment, it’s about truly enjoying
where I am and what I am doing. That allows me to be fully present
and to be in flow, to forget everything else around me and to connect
to pure joy and that feeling is one of the strongest ways to create.
That being said, there are circumstances when this happens to me more
often like when I am taking a walk in nature, when I’m playing
music, or when I am traveling and discovering new places.
I heard you
love making music, which kind of music are you into?
It can be all
kinds of music, from beautiful instrumental pieces to Pop to Latin to
Motown music. The most important thing to me is the message of the
music and the way it makes me feel. When I create music, it’s
important to me that there is meaning in the words, that it’s a
message that I want to share and that it's born out of an authentic
emotion. And maybe I’ll share a couple of songs at the workshop ;)
What are your
expectations visiting Vienna, beside of the workshop?
I am very much
looking forward to discovering this beautiful city, to catch up with
friends and to meet wonderful people. Other than that I don’t
really have concrete expectations. I am already so excited to combine
the delivery of the workshop with traveling and sharing a couple of
songs. Combining personal development with traveling and music is a
dream that is coming true and I am very happy about it :)!
Could you
share a secret? What is one thing you consider to do and haven't told
anyone about?
It’s always
exciting and scary at the same time to answer these sorts of
questions … a couple of people know this but I can probably count
them on one hand, so here it goes … One thing I would love to do,
is to create an album with my own songs. The objective is not to sell
a million copies and to become famous, but to enjoy the process of
creating and sharing music ;).
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