Arrive
In a circle, standing or seated, with breath and attention. Within ten minutes you see who is already present and who is still in the previous meeting.
Richard Jacobsen · Guide & trainer
What you do in interaction says more than what you say.
Does collaboration in your team feel stuck, does the same pattern keep coming back, or do you talk a lot about working together without anything changing? Then I first look at what is really going on and choose an intervention to match. On the mat, with exercises from Aikido and Qi Gong. Within fifteen minutes you see how you respond to each other.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Henry S. Haskins
1st Dan Aikido
International Qi Gong teacher
35+ years of practice
Teams, leaders and individuals
Starting point
Less explanation. More experience.
You can't read how a team works together from a report. You see it when one person pushes and the other pushes back. Or looks away. Or goes quiet. In the dojo exactly the same thing happens as in the meeting room, only faster and more clearly.
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You see it as it happens
Who speaks up and who waits for the silence. On the mat you see that within a few minutes.
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Your body is more honest than your story
That is why every session starts with breath and posture. Talking comes later.
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From resistance to collaboration
In Aikido you meet the other person's force by moving with it and redirecting it. That is a skill every team can use.
So I start by asking what is going on for you and what needs to change. Only then do I choose an intervention.
That makes this something quite different from a team outing, or a training booked because there was budget left over. This way of working suits people and organisations who want to experience something, explore it and then actually do things differently.
35+
years of working with people in hospitality, the dojo and organisations
5
interventions to get things moving, from a single day to a full programme
17
recommendations from participants, from a programme manager at Ahold Delhaize to an aikido sensei in Prague
Interventions
All ratesWhat are you running into?
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Collaboration feels stuck or strained
Flow Motion
For teams where collaboration feels stuck, patterns keep returning or there is plenty of talk about working together without anything changing. Makes visible what is happening and lets you practise a different response straight away.
02The same friction keeps coming back
Embodiment of the Enneagram
For teams and leaders who want to understand why the same friction keeps coming back. By embodying the nine Enneagram types you see who takes which role when the pressure rises, and what you can do with that.
03You work with people and the body yourself
Medicine Body
For professionals who work with people, behaviour, the body and recovery themselves, such as coaches, therapists and bodyworkers. Specialist depth in fascia, breath and the nervous system, starting in your own body.
04Stress, tension and too little recovery
Healing Qi Gong
For anyone who wants to reduce stress, recover better and have more energy left at the end of the day. Slow movement, breath and attention, as a single session or as a recurring programme at the office. Prevention that doesn't feel like prevention.
05Coming to rest together as a group
Sound & Resonance
For groups who want to come to rest without anyone having to say a word. A journey of gong and sound, lying on a mat or seated on a cushion or chair. An hour and a half with nothing to do, and a clearer head afterwards.
Want to perceive more sharply as a leader and stay present when things get tense? Sensitive Leadership: one-to-one, an intensive half day with intake and follow-up.
Sensitive Leadership
For teams · Flow Motion
From resistance to collaboration.
A day in which your team works together on the mat and sees what happens. We practise with principles from Aikido and Qi Gong: receiving force, moving with it, giving direction. After one day you know how you react when a colleague pushes through, and what you can do differently.
- Exercises in pairs and with the whole group, no role play
- You see who pushes through, who gives way and who waits
- Coordination and roles as they emerge in real life
- No sportswear or experience needed
€2,500 per group, full dayUp to 12 participants, excl. VAT. Half day €1,350. Larger groups with additional senior trainers.
Approach
How an intervention worksFrom challenge to change.
Whether it's a day of Flow Motion or a half day of Sensitive Leadership, the line is always the same: from your challenge to something you actually do differently afterwards.
A challenge
Stiff collaboration, a pattern that keeps coming back, tension that won't go away.
Explore
What is really happening here, and what needs to change?
Intervention
Then I choose a form to match. Never the other way round.
Experience
In a circle, on the mat. Doing instead of talking about it.
Insight
You see yourself and each other react. That is hard to deny.
Space
Try again, with a different choice. This is often where people laugh.
Change
What you have felt, you take with you. It sticks better than a handout.
Experience and explore
Exercises in pairs and with the whole group, sometimes with a wooden staff. The group experiences, responds and explores. Whatever is going on between you at the office is going on here too. Only now you can see it.
Insight and another try
We briefly name what you saw and felt, then you do the exercise again with a different choice. That second version is what you take back to work.
Discuss your challenge“In his classes he approaches everybody as equal so you can get a step further and your level does not matter to him.”
About Richard
More than 35 years of watching what people really do.
I'm Richard Jacobsen. I started out in hospitality, where on a busy Saturday night you can tell within a minute which team works and which doesn't. Alongside the kitchen came Aikido, later Qi Gong and bodywork. I have now spent more than 35 years among people who need to get something done together, on the mat and in organisations.
Participants describe me as playful and decisive, and there is plenty of laughter. I do get straight to the point, though. Non-violence is the foundation, taken from Aikido: you don't have to knock anyone over to get somewhere. I work from Apeldoorn and am a member of the Beweeg Alliance.
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Aikido
1st Dan, internationally recognised
Years of dojo experience in the Netherlands and abroad. Aikido as a metaphor and as a method.
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Qi Gong
International Qi Gong teacher
Teacher training and a long personal practice, focused on regulation and recovery.
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Body
Play Fight, somatic movement, Enneagram
Body-oriented and systemic work, applied in teams and under pressure.
What participants say
All 17 testimonialsIn their own words.
“Ries is een uitgelezen persoon als het gaat om het aangaan en ontwikkelen van transformatieprocessen, waarbij je niet schroomt om je schaduwkanten te ontmoeten. Zijn aanpak is speels, doortastend, persoonlijk, liefdevol en altijd voorzien van humor.”
“Je weet dan in korte tijd hoeveel er schuil gaat achter Qigong. (…) Met zijn Qigong uitleg heeft hij ons zo enthousiast gemaakt dat nu 2 maanden later we er nog steeds een keer of 3 per week mee bezig zijn.”
“Richard is met hart en ziel een Aikido Master en dat merk je in de sessies met hem samen.”
“I warmly recommend Richard Jacobsen's work with AikiFlow, which is practical, fun, flowing and enriching.”
Rates
What it costs.
Every intervention has a fixed starting price. Longer programmes and in-company series are tailored to your needs, after a short conversation that is free of charge.
All prices excl. VAT. Group prices apply to up to 12 participants. Location: at your premises or in the dojo. Larger groups with additional senior trainers.
- Flow MotionTeams · half day or full day · business entry point from€1,350per group
- Embodiment of the EnneagramTeams and leaders · always with a second trainer from€1,600per group
- Medicine BodyProfessionals who work with people and the body from€1,950per group
- Healing Qi GongSession of 1.5 to 2 hours, half day or full day from€550per group
- Sound & ResonanceSession of 1.5 to 2 hours, also as part of a day €450per session
- Sensitive LeadershipOne-to-one · intensive half day with intake and follow-up from€595per half day
Meet & try
Experience it first.
Our first conversation takes place online, via Zoom or Google Meet. That saves travel time and travel costs. After that you are welcome at one of my events via Hipsy, or we plan a try-out at your location, almost anywhere in the Netherlands.
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A first introduction via Zoom or Google Meet is always free of charge. For a try-out on location I charge an introductory rate plus travel time and travel costs. If you live far away, I'm happy to recommend a dojo and teacher near you.
Contact
Start with a conversation.
A free half-hour online conversation, via Zoom or Google Meet, is enough to hear what is going on in your team or with you. I'll tell you honestly whether I think I can help and which format would fit. Sometimes the answer is that someone else is a better fit.
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