Michael de Jong · CoCreatuur Coaching
Personal coaching for a happier life, creativity and personal growth.
For people who want to live more from who they truly are — in their choices, work, relationships and creative projects.
Open door
Free Friday morning drop-in.
Friday mornings, 9:00 – 11:00, at my home in Utrecht.
I believe coaching and taking care of your own wellbeing are basic human needs. Everyone deserves that — even when there's no budget right now, or you're not quite sure where to start. This drop-in is meant to help you take that first step: twenty minutes to half an hour to think out loud, express what's on your mind, and get some attention for yourself with the help of a professional coach.
Sign upThe promise
A richer life through the creator within you.
As a life coach I work with life questions, choices, direction and selfhood. Creativity runs through all of it — not as a hobby or a talent, but as a life skill: the ability to shape your life instead of merely living through it.
Read more about creativity as a life skill →- Listening to your instinct againThat soft, quick knowing you usually talk yourself out of gets a voice again.
- Choosing from desireNo longer from obligation. Your boundaries and your space weigh more than other people's opinions.
- Through the fear of expressionYour voice doesn't need to be perfect to matter.
And the projects that had gone quiet — the books, the compositions, the idea, the business, the conversation — start moving again.
Offerings
Choose your form of guidance.
Life coaching
Breakthrough sessions
For when you're stuck somewhere and want to feel movement again.
Life coaching
Tailored coaching journeys
For when you want to break through patterns and seek longer-term personal transformation.
Creativity coaching
Artist's Way
For when you want to deliberately develop creativity and integrate it as a life skill.
Creativity coaching
Creative mentoring
For when you're looking for guidance on a specific creative project or artistic block.
Recognition
What adapting does to you
If you learned early on to bend towards what others needed, you carry patterns from that. They were once clever. Now they cost you energy. Click a pattern and read what sits underneath.
From early on you read the mood in the room and adjusted to it. That made you sensitive, but also invisible: you know exactly what someone else needs and barely what you want. Saying no doesn't feel like a boundary, but like a risk.
Appreciation came from achieving, so achieving became where you found safety. Now nothing is ever finished: every version could be tighter, every email sharper. You work hard, but rest feels undeserved — which makes success empty instead of affirming.
The harshness that once came from outside has moved inside. You hold yourself to account for things you'd gently forgive in someone else. Under that criticism there's often shame: the feeling that something is wrong with you, rather than that something happened to you.
Starting means becoming visible, and therefore judgeable. You push things back until the pressure leaves you no choice. It looks like laziness, but it's a brake: an old system protecting you from failure by keeping you quiet.
You function, but something is missing. The goals you chase turn out to have been someone else's. Without the role of helpful, strong or successful, you briefly don't know who you are — and that's exactly where the work of finding your own direction begins.
Recognise a pattern? Then there's a way forward. Together we explore what it means for you.
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The unrecognised artist
You may not be an artist by trade,
but you are by nature.
There's something in you that wants to make, to feel, to give shape to things. That part has been quiet for a long time, or never fully heard. This coaching is about letting it speak again.
Who it's for
Where do you recognise yourself?
Four stories about what happens when the creator in you doesn't get enough room — and how it can be different.
About me
Michael de Jong — coach, composer, organisational designer.
I work with you as a certified all-round coach — trained through the professional programme at de Baak — from the conviction that creativity is a basic human need. Together we bring you back into contact with who you really are, so you can live and choose from authenticity, expression and desire.
