Trainer, Coach, Facilitator

Tom Van Den Steen

Something work-related
Tom is an impact couch and certified meditation and mindfulness instructor. He created Quantum Discipline, a method of personal growth and facilitates personal, professional and organizational processes of learning and growth. His passion: building bridges between cultures and knowledge, translating the whole into digestible language and supporting others to be clearer and more effective.
Something personal
After traveling through all continents, meditation changed Tom's life for the better and opened the door for him to explore the world from within. With his wife, he shares a passion for navigating (and hacking) the human mind and meditation to help them raise their teenage son. Tom is also part of a men's collective in Colombia, Manes a la Obra, which promotes personal growth and group pranks.
1) How would you describe your job in one sentence?
2) What has influenced you in life, and how does it show up in your work?
Meditation, energy work and transpersonal psychology played a major role in creating the human being I am today. I integrate these aspects seamlessly into my workshops whenever the opportunity arises and the group welcomes these excursions. Showing that there is more to reality than meets the eye, and understanding one's own role and responsibility in co-creating that reality are essential.
3) Why do you work for humancraft?
I greatly enjoy working with human art because of the hands-on experience and opportunities to share our vision and mission in places where it makes an impact.
4) What has been your biggest challenge at humancraft so far?
The biggest challenge is recognizing where my responsibilities end and trusting that participants will take their growth process as theirs, even if it's not always visible at first glance. Each training is a 50 to 50 process: I go 100% with my 50% responsibility for the training and each participant has the remaining 50% in that they own the learning process and make the most of what I offer.
5) How does your work influence your personal development and career?
6) What are the biggest challenges in corporate education today, and how is humancraft addressing them?