{"id":1907,"date":"2026-03-29T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/about-steven\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:53:10","slug":"about-steven","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/en\/about-steven\/","title":{"rendered":"About Steven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:0px;--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-center fusion-flex-justify-content-space-around fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-center\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-content-layout-column\">\n<section class=\"ss-hero\"><div class=\"ss-hero__copy\"><p class=\"ss-hero__kicker\">Twenty-five years, and the rupture that followed<\/p><h1 class=\"ss-hero__title\">What became apparent when the old fell away is what I now <em>practice<\/em>.<\/h1><p class=\"ss-hero__lead\">What once made you strong can later wear you down. And vice versa.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"ss-hero__visual\"><img class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260422-Steven-Stephania-_48911-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Stephania\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"><\/div><\/section><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"Person\",\n  \"name\": \"Steven Stephania\",\n  \"url\": \"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/over-steven\/\",\n  \"mainEntityOfPage\": \"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/over-steven\/\",\n  \"image\": \"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260422-Steven-Stephania-_48911-scaled.jpg\",\n  \"jobTitle\": \"Integratief coach\",\n  \"description\": \"Integratief coach en auteur. Begeleidt ondernemers, leiders en mensen op een kantelpunt, in individuele trajecten, retraites en met teams.\",\n  \"email\": \"coaching@stevenstephania.com\",\n  \"telephone\": \"+31638924004\",\n  \"sameAs\": [\n    \"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stevenstephania\/\"\n  ],\n  \"worksFor\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n    \"name\": \"Steven Stephania - Integratieve Coaching\",\n    \"url\": \"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/\"\n  },\n  \"workLocation\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Place\",\n    \"name\": \"Het Coachhuis\",\n    \"address\": {\n      \"@type\": \"PostalAddress\",\n      \"streetAddress\": \"Oorsprongpark 7\",\n      \"addressLocality\": \"Utrecht\",\n      \"addressCountry\": \"NL\"\n    }\n  },\n  \"hasCredential\": {\n    \"@type\": \"EducationalOccupationalCredential\",\n    \"name\": \"Certified Transformational Presence Coach\"\n  },\n  \"memberOf\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n    \"name\": \"NOBCO \u2014 Nederlandse Orde van Beroepscoaches\",\n    \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.nobco.nl\/\"\n  },\n  \"knowsAbout\": [\n    \"Coaching\",\n    \"Leiderschapscoaching\",\n    \"Teamcoaching\",\n    \"Systeemopstellingen\",\n    \"Zingeving\",\n    \"Burn-out\",\n    \"Herstel na ziekte\"\n  ]\n}\n<\/script><!-- OPTIONEEL AAN TE VULLEN \u2014 plaats binnen het JSON-object hierboven:\n\n     Postcode bij het adres:\n       \"postalCode\": \"3581 ES\"   \u2190 controleren\n\n     KvK-nummer bij de organisatie. 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Koppel het aan deze Person via @id, zodat\n     Google ziet dat het om \u00e9\u00e9n praktijk gaat en niet om twee. --><style>.ss-hero{\n  --ss-primary:#2a6b6b;   \/* Primary & link *\/\n  --ss-ink:#1e1e2a;       \/* Body text *\/\n  --ss-soft:#52525e;      \/* Text soft *\/\n  --ss-panel:#e8e0d5;     \/* Portret achtergrond *\/\n  --ss-bg:#faf8f4;        \/* Body background *\/\n  --ss-max:1120px;\n  --ss-pad:clamp(20px,5vw,64px);\n  --ss-ui:'Source Sans 3','Karla','Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;\n}\n\n\/* ---------- desktop: beeld NAAST de copy, paneel tot de rechter schermrand ---------- *\/\nsection.ss-hero{\n  display:grid;\n  grid-template-columns:minmax(0,.9fr) minmax(0,1.1fr);\n  align-items:stretch;\n  background:var(--ss-bg) !important;\n  padding:clamp(56px,9vw,110px) 0 clamp(56px,9vw,110px) max(var(--ss-pad),calc((100% - var(--ss-max))\/2)) !important;\n  margin:0 !important;\n  box-sizing:border-box;\n}\n.ss-hero *,.ss-hero *::before,.ss-hero *::after{box-sizing:border-box}\n\n.ss-hero__copy{align-self:center;max-width:640px;padding-right:clamp(24px,5vw,72px)}\n\n\/* Kicker \u2014 identiek aan alle secties *\/\n.ss-hero .ss-hero__kicker{\n  font-family:var(--ss-ui) !important;\n  font-size:12.5px !important;\n  font-weight:500 !important;\n  letter-spacing:.22em !important;\n  text-transform:uppercase !important;\n  line-height:1.5 !important;\n  color:var(--ss-primary) !important;\n  margin:0 0 22px !important;\n  padding:0 !important;\n}\n\n\/* Kop \u2014 met het teal-cursieve signatuurwoord *\/\n.ss-hero .ss-hero__title{\n  font-size:clamp(38px,5.4vw,62px) !important;\n  line-height:1.14 !important;\n  font-weight:600 !important;\n  letter-spacing:.005em !important;\n  text-transform:none !important;\n  color:var(--ss-ink) !important;\n  margin:0 0 24px !important;\n  padding:0 !important;\n}\n.ss-hero .ss-hero__title em{color:var(--ss-primary) !important;font-style:italic}\n\n\/* Lead *\/\n.ss-hero .ss-hero__lead{\n  font-size:clamp(18px,2vw,20px) !important;\n  line-height:1.75 !important;\n  color:var(--ss-soft) !important;\n  margin:0 !important;\n  padding:0 !important;\n}\n\n\/* Beeldpaneel \u2014 kader boven\/links\/onder, rechts strak tegen de schermrand *\/\n.ss-hero__visual{\n  background:var(--ss-panel) !important;\n  display:flex;align-items:stretch;justify-content:flex-end;\n  padding:clamp(18px,3vw,44px) 0 clamp(18px,3vw,44px) clamp(18px,3vw,44px) !important;\n  margin:0 !important;\n}\n.ss-hero__visual img{\n  width:100% !important;max-width:100% !important;height:100% !important; 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The tone in a voice before the words came. The tension that lasted just a little too long. Born between two countries and two cultures \u2014 Cura\u00e7ao and the Netherlands \u2014 attention became my way of orienting myself. Not by knowing more, but by feeling sooner.    <\/p>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">What I then called a survival strategy, I now call perception.<\/p>\n\n    <h3 class=\"ss-verhaal__h3\">Twenty-five years of sharpness<\/h3>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">I built a career in a world where sharpness is rewarded. Leadership roles at Randstad, Manpower, and Adecco. In 2012, I founded my own company; in nine years, we grew into a trusted partner for multinationals \u2014 responsible for recruiting the talent that would carry their future. The artery of an organization. In 2021, we sold it.    <\/p>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">Three months later, my own artery gave out. A carotid artery dissection, without warning. The irony was not subtle.  <\/p>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">But it wasn't a surprise \u2014 not if I'm honest. I had learned to perceive with a survival goal: assess quickly, act quickly, move forward quickly. What had made me strong had been exhausting me for years.  <\/p>\n\n    <h3 class=\"ss-verhaal__h3\">Learning to look differently<\/h3>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">What you learn in three years of recovery is that forcing things doesn't help. That the paths you always used to move forward one day become unusable \u2014 not because they were wrong, but because their work is done. <\/p>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">What did help was what I had overridden my entire life: silence, nature, and the intelligence of the body itself. In those years, I found insights that showed me a different kind of knowing \u2014 Being Orientation, Transformational Presence, polyvagal theory, Tibetan Buddhism. What they had in common: they didn't teach me more. They taught me differently.   <\/p>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">On the other side, I didn't find a new skill, but the same attention I had always possessed \u2014 freed from the survival mode that drove it. No longer scanning for danger, but feeling what wants to reveal itself. <\/p>\n\n    <h3 class=\"ss-verhaal__h3\">Today<\/h3>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">I work as an integrative coach with entrepreneurs, leaders, and people at a turning point. What I went through gave me the material. What I learned gave me the method: <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/en\/my-approach\/\">explore, connect, integrate<\/a> \u2014 with everything you are: physically, mentally, spiritually, and systemically.  <\/p>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">What I want to offer you is not a method or technique, but a lived certainty: a pattern that holds can shift. Not by working harder. By working differently.  <\/p>\n    <p class=\"ss-verhaal__p\">My book, <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/en\/my-book\/\"><em>The Sense and Nonsense of Being<\/em><\/a> (Invicti, 2026), is not a summary of what I know. 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Founded own company in 2012, grew into a partner for multinationals, sold in 2021. <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ss-fundament__item\">\n        <h3 class=\"ss-fundament__h3\">NOBCO coach<\/h3>\n        <p class=\"ss-fundament__p\">Affiliated with the Dutch Association of Professional Coaches (NOBCO), connected to EMCC Global. Member number 90230. <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ss-fundament__item\">\n        <h3 class=\"ss-fundament__h3\">School for Being Orientation<\/h3>\n        <p class=\"ss-fundament__p\">Three-year program in awareness, presence, and being-oriented development. Three words carry the entire movement: notice, let go, allow \u2014 they conclude each chapter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/en\/?page_id=1903\">workbook<\/a>. <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ss-fundament__item\">\n        <h3 class=\"ss-fundament__h3\">Transformational Presence<\/h3>\n        <p class=\"ss-fundament__p\">Certified coach through Alan Seale's program, who wrote the foreword to <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenstephania.com\/en\/my-book\/\">my book<\/a>. Working with potential instead of problems. <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ss-fundament__item\">\n        <h3 class=\"ss-fundament__h3\">Polyvagal-informed<\/h3>\n        <p class=\"ss-fundament__p\">Foundations with Deb Dana. The neuroscience of safety, connection, and how the nervous system directs perception. <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ss-fundament__item\">\n        <h3 class=\"ss-fundament__h3\">Psychodynamic coaching<\/h3>\n        <p class=\"ss-fundament__p\">Working with unconscious patterns in leadership and organizations.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ss-fundament__item\">\n        <h3 class=\"ss-fundament__h3\">End-of-life counselor<\/h3>\n        <p class=\"ss-fundament__p\">Presence at the threshold where all roles fall away.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ss-fundament__item\">\n        <h3 class=\"ss-fundament__h3\">Contemplative practice<\/h3>\n        <p class=\"ss-fundament__p\">Tibetan Buddhism; retreats in the Netherlands, France, Nepal, and India.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<style>\n.ss-fundament{\n  --ss-primary:#2a6b6b;   \/* Primary & link *\/\n  --ss-ink:#1e1e2a;       \/* Body text *\/\n  --ss-soft:#52525e;      \/* Text soft *\/\n  --ss-bg:#faf8f4; 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