About Us

Hans Houtman, M.A, co-founder and director
of Syncscapes Consulting

is an innovative consultant and team facilitator, who assists organizations in transforming their workforce into optimally motivated and highly productive employees, who

have learned to see through and play with their personality patterns and therefore
enjoy their work
appreciate the value of learning
know how to empower themselves
are able to manage stress
are proactive individuals who dare to take on a leadership role when necessary
are flexible cooperative teamplayers, who appreciate and value diversity
cooperate in harmony
resolve conflicts
communicate with candour, intelligence and confidence

He is a speaker and presenter on a variety of topics ranging from Inner Politics, Living from the Centre of the Cyclone. Pleasure at Work, and The Art of Adaptation to The Power of Integrative Functioning, Towards an In-House learning Culture, The Chakra-System as Roadmap for Everyday Living, the Enneagram and Beyond and Some Secrets of Corporate Wellness.

With over 20 years experience as psychotherapist and 10 years as trainer, coach and consultant in the corporate world, he combines a unique mixture of talents and skills to motivate and assist people in transforming the undesired and destructive emotional and mental patterns of behavior in their personal and professional lives into productive, creative, healthy and joyful ones through awareness, in-depth learning, playful practice and loving commitment.

Selected Skills and Accomplishments

Team-building coach

Created and led a series of workshops on emotional intelligence for supervisors and managers of Royal Dutch Telecom.
Created and led a series of workshops on mobility and creativity for telephone operators of Royal Dutch Telecom which at the time was making a transition from a stat-owned company to a profitable private enterprise.
Wrote a scenario for resolving conflicts and improve teamwork for the Teleconferencing department of Royal Dutch Telecom and facilitated its implementation with the employees.

Speaker, writer and performer.

Wrote and performed a monologue for employees of Royal Dutch Telecom with the central theme of rigidity vs. creativity to motivate them to become more flexible in their jobs and more mobile in their job change.
Wrote and performed a myth that inspired the avant-garde artists community ‘Het Voorbeeld’ (the Example) to help integrate art into a multi-cultural area of Amsterdam.
Wrote a myth, ‘The Caterpillar Caravan’ to further a Woodstock, New York renaissance of healing and creative arts.

Eclectic Psychotherapist
- As co-founder and co-director of SYNCSCAPES with his wife, psychotherapist, writer and energy coach Francine Juhasz, Ph.D, Hans Houtman uses his large theoretical and experiential knowledge of therapeutic techniques from as varied schools of psychology as Jung’s Analytical School, Psycho-Synthesis, Gestalt, Pathwork, NLP, Enneagram, Systems-thinking, Sacred, Transpersonal, and Quantum-psychology, to help a wide clientele transform their varied states of victimhood into states of co-creatorship.
  
  Former clients include businessmen and women, bank managers, lawyers, doctors, artists, psychotherapists, musicians, and service personnel—from the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Spain, and the United States.
- Created and led workshops on Inner Politics in Woodstock, New York
Painter

Developed his own unique style of abstract ‘spaces’ paintings which he showed in several exhibitions in Amsterdam (Holland), Düsseldorf (Germany), Ibiza (Spain). He uses this experience in assisting people in handling chaos and uncertainty and in exploring their own creative powers.

Kripalu Yoga Teacher

Uses, as a lifelong practioner of Raja yoga and Zen-meditation, the experiences and insights found on those paths to introduce awareness, flexibility, presence, joy and a sense of inner space in the workplace.

QUALIFICATIONS

Holds an M.A. in Contemporary History from the University of Amsterdam with Minors in Didactic Psychology and Cultural Anthropology
Graduated at the Institute for Applied Integral Psychology (ITIP) in Zuthpen, The Netherlands
Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher from Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA