Books for your personal and professional growth
In books I take you on a journey to become more yourself. You will discover practical insights from psychology, spirituality and mythology to ignite your inner strength. The tools help you to take gentle steps in your personal development.
Empower Yourself at Work
In her latest book Hélène van Oudheusden shows you how being true to yourself in the workplace can be of benefit to everyone: you, your colleagues and, yes, even your boss.
Many people struggle to strike a healthy work/life balance. But do they have to be so separate? Personal coach Hélène van Oudheusden gently illuminates an alternative path – one where you bring your full self to work, and you integrate your work into your personal life journey.
Teaching Refugee Children
Pedagogical counselor Hélène van Oudheusden offers you a different perspective on trauma-sensitive teaching. You will discover how the psychological model of the Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell) helps you to better understand refugee children.
The book supports you to create a warm pedagogical climate. You will find 25 tools to create lessons that are tailor-made to the emotional needs of your pupils.
Universal Values in Multicultural Primary Education
only in Dutch
- How can a multicultural school integrate universal values to celebrate cultural richness and diversity?
- What are the pointers when communicating with parents from another cultural background?
- How to co-operate with rolemodels when teaching children about life's possibilities?
Universal Values in Multicultural Education is a practical manual for teachers to fine-tune the pedagogical climate to the multicultural society.
Review
"Now I understand the importance of a father's presence at school."
Reviews
Empower Yourself at Work is not a standard book. When you take it in your hands, you start reading it and you understand that you can work with it. It is instructive about our life and our daily lives.
It contains wisdom and love that are channeled through its exercises that teach us to make the best choices for ourselves. This manual helps us to find our inner goals by following its steps.
At the end of the book you will have a clearer view on your future, of how you see yourself.
Personally, I really liked the story with the cocoon and the butterfly. Just as the caterpillar grows slowly and steadily in its cocoon (itself) until it grows up and gets the strength to fly when it is a butterfly, so life teaches us to be patient and work with ourselves for the changes to come.
Korina Dimopoulou, CEO of E-Kalimera (Greek e-school), Thessaloniki
Teaching Refugee Children is awesome. What a wonderful tool for helping these children!
Michael Lambert, Joseph Campbell Foundation, USA
In Empower Yourself at Work Hélène touches your inner core and teaches you how your higher Self can guide you in life. No matter what is happening around you, I now know that I can always return to that safe, inner place.
Monique van Grol, entrepreneur
Empower Yourself at Work also offers recognition and inspiration for less conventional work relationships, such as in the O.R. (hospital).
This book has the potential to transform your own "I" into a source of energy in your daily work environment.
Xandra Schyns – van den Berg, anaesthesiologist, Netherlands
Teaching Refugee Children provides a practical manual for teachers who work with refugee children. Theory and exercises are interwoven with inspiration in a clear layout.
Teaching Refugee Children invites me to get started right away!
Irina Garwola, Language teacher
Hélène van Oudheusden is a senior personal counselor and trainer based in the Hague, the Netherlands. She is the author of Empower Yourself at Work and Teaching Refugee Children.
Hélène van Oudheusden, Personal Coach is registered as an educational institution with the CRKBO and therefore complies with the quality code for training institutions for short vocational education.
Hélène works in several countries.
