Marie Ann Gilté

Integral Master Coach™ | Mindfulness trainer | Psychologist

About
Marie Ann

Hello!

I am Marie Ann.

If there is anything I am passionate about, it is about becoming more conscious of how we experience life and tapping into our full potential in order to transform challenges into accomplishments and make our dreams come true.

As an Integral Master Coach™ and Mindfulness Trainer, I want to contribute to a world with greater self-awareness, self-acceptance, well-being and connectivity.

I have guided many women and men of different ages through various individual coaching or/and Mindfulness training programmes. The participants of these programmes told me that they now live their lives on a more conscious level, are more emotionally balanced and experience greater authenticity and more freedom of choice in their lives.

In 2002 I started a practice at home as a psychologist. Gradually, I started looking for innovative ways to sustainably change and further develop our human potential.

In Integral Coaching® and Mindfulness, I have found powerful methods to help you deal with the complex world we live in and the challenges and difficulties that you encounter. 

Through the insights and exercises, you will experience a greater sense of freedom and completeness, become more emotionally balanced and energetic, build more in-depth relationships and develop a keener understanding of the overall scheme of things. These are all things that I too have experienced.

 

Mindfulness Training

As a trainer affiliated with the Institute for Attention and Mindfulness, I have been giving training programmes on such subjects as Mindfulness, Heartfulness & Compassion and Mindfulness & Communication for more than ten years. 

Mindfulness helps you to sharpen your focus and to draw your attention to the ‘here and now’. In this way, you create space and peace, so that you can experience an enhanced sense of well-being and a greater freedom of choice.

During my own journey as a practitioner of Mindfulness I was inspired and influenced by people such as the Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

Integral Coaching

Another person who was important to my development was Ken Wilber. He developed an all-embracing or ‘Integral’ model for human development that can serve as a guide to promote a better understanding of yourself and help you tap into your full potential.

I started examining how I could apply this to coaching and enrolled in an intensive training course at Integral Coaching Canada® in Ottawa from 2015 to 2017. Here, I obtained the certificate of Integral Master Coach™.

We have more possibilities available in each moment, than we realize

– Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Integral refers to the fact that you, as a human being, are able to develop various aspects of your persona. It goes beyond the cognitive, and invites you to tackle challenges through the further development of qualities or skills, based on the various aspects of your Being. It goes without saying that Mindfulness is also part of this. 
  • Problems and challenges can help us to grow and develop new qualities and perspectives. This enriches our life, making us a better person. It is on the basis of this principle that I aim to inspire you to take the first steps on the unique path of your personal development! 
  • Are you ready to transform your challenges into accomplishments, embark on a journey of further personal development and tap into your full potential? 
  • I am looking forward to bidding you a warm welcome to my practice in Grimbergen or setting up an appointment with you in Brussels. Individual coaching sessions are also possible via Zoom. We will start with an exploratory session and expand on this as we go along. 

Let’s explore

Mail me and let's set up an exploratory coaching conversation, where you can experience what coaching can bring you.

More about Marie Ann :

I live in Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant, to the north of Brussels, together with my partner and our two young adult children. 

I enjoy being in touch with nature and like to be inspired by the diversity of the seasons and the lessons in life that come with this. 

Meditation, yoga and qigong are an important part of my life, and I make time for them on a daily basis. 

I like to dance and sing, and I love cycling, swimming and hiking.  

The relationships I enjoy with my friends and family members are also very important to me, as well as the various groups of which I am a part. 

The participants of my courses, programmes and workshops consider me to be open, non-judgemental, safe, a good listener, understanding, compassionate, down-to-earth, profound and purposeful.

Qualifications :

  • Integral Master Coach ™  , Integral Coaching Canada  ®
  • Certified Mindfulness trainer (MBCT:Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy), I AM
  • Master Degree in Clinical and Developmental Psychology, University of Ghent
  • Compassion trainer and Mindful communication trainer, I AM 
  • I have participated in training events and retreats with Thich Nhat Hanh, Mark Williams, Christina Feldman, David Dewulf , Kristin Neff, Chris Germer, Susan Gillis Chapman, Greg Heffron and others.
  • In depth knowledge of the Enneagram.
  • NLP trainer, Arcturus and the New York Institute of NLP.

    Marie Ann, thank you very much for your kind support during my journey to greater authenticity and learning to live more spaciously - from the inside. It has been a process in which you have guided me in a very gentle yet very effective way. Your ability to make my next step more visible to me, with such judgement-free spontaneity, has given me a lot of pleasure and led to many important insights. Your coaching is a must for anyone wanting to make a visible and lasting change in their life.

    - Karin

    The coaching provides hands on exercises that match the personalised goals, developed in close collaboration with Marie Ann, to find more peace of mind and meaning in life and work. Working with metaphors and exercises was a powerful tool to identify patterns in my life and work, and to stimulate a positive transformation in the parts of life that are important to me. Very much recommended in case you’re looking for a form of coaching with a practical and reflective approach that you can easily integrate on a daily basis!"

    - M. D.

    The Integral Coaching program is a real eye-opener! The adapted, varied exercises and the self-chosen metaphors, have allowed me to rediscover a lot of my personal qualities, hidden by doubts and uncertainties. In addition, Marie Ann is the perfect coach: soft and empathic and with, at the same time, a very structured and focused approach.

    - Valerie

    I recently followed the personal coaching program with Marie Ann and am very satisfied with the results I achieved. My self-confidence has increased considerably and I feel firmly in my shoes as a team leader of 5 people. I have also succeeded in resolving a long-standing conflict between two colleagues. The personal atmosphere with someone who really listens to you, was the ideal environment for me in which to re-evaluate my professional goals and ambitions, learn to better understand and guard my borders and how to experience more peace and stillness in my life.

    - Viviane

    The conversations with Marie-Ann were deep and insightful. Very gently she lead me to deeper layers of the topic that I wanted to address and helped me uncover my limiting beliefs, my ways of thinking and acting that get in the way of what I want to achieve. She offered me metaphors and practices that helped me relate to my behaviour and led the way to a new approach for the future. I felt safe and held, seen and supported by her.

    - Myriam

    Marie Ann, thank you very much for your kind support during my journey to greater authenticity and learning to live more spaciously - from the inside. It has been a process in which you have guided me in a very gentle yet very effective way. Your ability to make my next step more visible to me, with such judgement-free spontaneity, has given me a lot of pleasure and led to many important insights. Your coaching is a must for anyone wanting to make a visible and lasting change in their life.

    - Karin