licht en ruimte would literally translate to: light and space/ious   
The Oxford dictionary tells us:
Light; (a) kind of natural radiation that makes things visibleSpace(ious); unused area between two ore more points/ having or providing much space

The space at licht + ruimte offers room to work in peace, to hold a meeting or to have an intimate party. It’s all up to you. It’s a place to celebrate your successes with your team or company relations or to mark a special occasion. For business or for private use. For serious matters or for the less serious. There is room for all of it and there is light and much, much more.

For me, licht + ruimte is a relaxed great place to be in, and to coach in. A place where new ideas are easily born, and a great place to meet with inspiring people.

Let's discuss what you have in mind.
Wishing you lots of light and space in your life,

A. Nicoline Smoor facilitator & coach

background
After studying Business at the Nyenrode Business Universiteit (BBA), Nicoline worked in various management positions. In 1994, she took the Coach Training at The MMS Worldwide Institute in The Netherlands. Following this period, until 2001, she managed her own company from London and Amsterdam in coaching, communication advice and text & editing.

Coaching has been her main professional activity since 2001. For corporate and for private clients, both inside and outside of The Netherlands. Nicoline has facilitated many of the activities of the MMS in The Netherlands until mid 2008. She enrolled in the masters course Conflict Management at Maastricht University and participated in many different workshops on (systemic) family constellations (Bert Hellinger). In 2008 she finished a course in systemic thinking and working, in 2009 ‘Living and Working from the soul’. In the years after, more thematic training days followed. Since March 2009 Nicoline is a certified facilitator of the Inner Links Transformation Game.

Nicoline is married to Elias Woudenberg and mother of son Wieger (13).

 

on her work and approach as a coach
Does your job make full use of the talents you have? Do you doubt your own approach or the path that you are on? Do you sometimes feel you are stopping yourself in some way or maybe even obstructing others? Is your team not creating the changes you set out for them to reach? Or, are you getting ready for your ultimate challenge?

If you are ready for taking new steps but you aren’t quite sure how to go about it or which direction you should take, coaching could be an option for you (and your team). You may discover new ways to reach your goal in a more effective way, by venting your feelings and giving them some space, shining some light on to your self or those areas that you find harder to deal with.

During an intake I will ask you to describe your goals and together we will make a plan. This will include some ongoing evaluations. Depending on your goals and your starting point, the amount of coaching meetings usually varies between 4 and 8 sessions. On average, a meeting takes about one and a half hours.

My approach is by facilitating and reflecting. It’s all about listening to the signals you are giving me – and about you making your own choices and agreements with yourself. That starts with a good conversation with yourself and ends with putting this into action to bring your talents and dreams alive.

what others say@Nicoline

I am a different person compared to when I started. Today I have the instruments to follow up on the chosen path. Today, I am a happier person, getting more and more reconnected with who I am in essence.  
Dianne Smeets

Nicoline is an intelligent, empathic and warm person who has shown me the mirror to help me move forward. I can highly recommend her.
Paul Kampman

As a coach, Nicoline holds the perfect mirror with ease, provides genuine and incisive insights into behaviours that are easy to connect with, simple to adapt and to practice. She made a 'real difference' to me.
Sanjay Seghal

During the Inner Negotiation Workshop (INW) I have been coached by Nicoline. During these two days I felt looked at objectively, sharing her findings without judgement. Priceless. Asking in depth questions. For me that's the essence of coaching: this way I myself could feel and see where I was and where I wanted to move towards. She was sharp and present until the last moment of the workshop. For me as an exhausted participant after two intense days, extremely valuable.
Barbara Piper

Nicoline brings a fresh perspective to every problem. As my personal coach for 8 months, her partnership was outstanding. With her support I confronted some of my deepest fears and got in touch with my dreams once again. She is perceptive and has a great ability to listen to the unsaid and voice it for you. She brings great warmth and empathy into every client relationship. Her professionalism, tenacity and energy are worth emulating. She adds value both to the individual, the processes and the organisation through her interactions.
Leena Nair

Through her coaching, Nicoline has brought a fresh level of confidence and energy in me. She is a very caring person and her approach to her coachees is very friendly, warm, gentle yet firm and persuasive enough, clearly bringing out the areas where the coachee can improve. She has been able to not only highlight what to improve, but really given some very useful, doable suggestions on the way to improve. With this she helped me regain the self-confidence I had lost.
Sanjay Gupta-Kumar

licht + ruimte



licht + ruimte is located on the first floor, above bar/restaurant De Eendracht across the town's main bridge bridge. Through its eight windows the centre of Abcoude and the river Angstel are always nearby without being intrusive. The bright and comfortable atmosphere in the two adjacent rooms is a perfect surrounding for outdoors meetings or activities of your team, special celebrations (private or business), workshops or trainings for a maximum of 49 people.

The changing art exhibitions give the space a different look and feel every few months - one never knows the space for ever. Just a ten minutes walk away, the river Gein flows, a beautiful nature area for a walk or a bike tour.

The restaurant downstairs is happy to serve meals upstairs and so can other caterers. All is there to assist you in making your experience exactly what you want it to be. licht + ruimte can be rented per block of four hours.

For more information, please contact Nicoline Smoor at nicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl or 06-11003354.

    
   

inspiration

licht + ruimte offers great opportunities for a variety of cultural activities, regular exhibitions being part of that. Various artists have exhibited (and sold) their works in licht + ruimte, excellent musicians have performed and talented actors have played. 

Nicoline is always happy to brain jog on the perfect activity for your celebration, marking or team gathering in order to help you make a real difference.

Please be so kind to arrange an appointment to visit licht + ruimte upfront: nicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl pr +31 6 11003354.

• exhibitions overview
• performances overview

past and current exhibitions v

     
    
     

Caren van Herwaarden
Anniversary Exhibition 5 years licht + ruimte
Hans Steffelaar
Willibrord Huijben
Marieke Bolhuis
Marian Bijlenga
Barbara Houwers
Mica Okuno
Françoise Stoop
Hester van Dapperen
Marian Smit
Pieter Schunselaar
Wouter Stips
Marleen Leysen
Hans Keuls
Marijke de Goey
Niels Smits van Burgst
Pien Maso
Hester Van Dapperen
Christie Rusche


past performances  v

  
  
 
    

activities to come

These are the activities currently listed for the months to come. Please make sure you sign up for activities of your choice after which you will receive a message of confirmation. With any questions, ideas or remarks, please contact Nicoline Smoor at nicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl or +31 6 11003354.

until 15 January 2012
WIJ MENSEN - exhibition Caren van Herwaarden



In licht + ruimte, Caren van Herwaarden shows some of het bigger watercolors. Transparent human figures in motion or combined into timeless shapes.  Watercolors are ideal for the works of Van Herwaarden, who seem to be watching us through our skin and body, merely interested in what moves humans.
It all started as a kid, when she dreamed of having X-ray glasses to enable her to look through clothes and skin of others. She could not combine the existence of muscles, organs, bones and vessels with our fysical ouytside appearance. And what about the ideas, dreams, feelings that live on the inside? Would her special glasses enable her to find traces of those?
The exhibition WIJ, MENSEN (we, humans) ends 15 January 2012. Until then you are most welcome to visit.

openings
On the following Sundays, licht + ruimte will be open between 12 am and 3 pm: 
8 and 15 January 2012

In case you are unable to visit on those afternoons, please contact me to make an apointment at your convenience at nicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl or 06-11003354.

18 January - 11 March 2012
recycling - exhibition Tineke Smith

Tineke Smith (1948) is a contemporary artist who has studied dance, theater and art at the Hogeschool van de Kunsten in Amsterdam and Utrecht (NL). She has studied visualizing the synthesis of imagination of the crossing of poetry, dance, music and image and has a preference for nature, natural colors, the earthly, motion, life, the combination of different materials, and most of all for recycling: to retake the past both in history, materials and in image.
With a sense for poetry and art history, she translates the poetical in her mainly conceptual 3-D art, in which she loves to combine materials like glass and iron, wood, rubber, wool and gelatin. Her more thematic art is inspired by the narrative tradition from the Bible and mythology.

Tineke Smith has exposed all over Europe and is mostly known for her sculptures and paintings on 'the seven acts of mercy'.  In 2011 she has won two important prices: the Wing-Award for CNV Visual Arts and the Third Price at the VIII Biennale Internationale Dell'Arte Contemporanea Di Firenze. There’s a list of publications on her art work. For more information, click here.

openings
The official opening will take place on Sunday 5 February between 1 and 4 pm.
On Sunday 19 February, licht + ruimte will be open between 12 am and 3 pm.

In case you are unable to visit on those afternoons, please contact me to make an apointment at your convenience atnicoline.smoor@licht-ruimte.nl or 06-11003354.

New activities in licht + ruimte will be announced in the news flash!

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