Hoi. Ik ben Floris Koot, I'm a Process Alchemist, Game Designer, Social Inventor, Educational Changemaker, Play Engineer & Wonderful Storyteller.
Welcome
Flourishing Meetings
Floris facilitates exciting meetings. He activates, inspires, and makes messages experiential. Floris is an expert at activating crowds towards meaningful sessions, such as teambuilding, start-up, strategy or community sessions.
From Ice-breakers and Rituals to Open Space sessions, to facilitating Sociograms to see where everybody stands, Floris knows his way and is not afraid to intervene in challenging moments or make it fun.
Floris Koot
Events & Keynotes
Floris is an activating speaker on topics like creativity, education, play, wisdom of fools, teaching stories, swarm leadership & more.
He has a history as an event designer and event host for management roleplaying games. He worked on stage as an actor in improv and forum settings.
Trainer
Active Learning.
With over 20 years of training experience, Floris is an enthusiastic driven trainer who gets everyone involved and active. He trained all over Europe with groups as diverse as bankers, trainers, teachers, students, and refugees. His focus lies with play, innovation, social skills, authentic leadership, collaboration and asking the right questions.
Coaching
Guided Self Discovery
With a unique approach, Floris helps you find your own inner answers to pressing questions in life and career choices.
Floris works with creative tasks, questions, and stories of his own life. Having worked in many fields and being empathic as he is, he will find ways to help you find your directions.
Online Coaching is possible.
Play Designer
Make discovery fun!
Play is awesome tool towards change and growth processes. Due to its light tone it takes the sting out of heavier issues, makes people more flexible and inventive. Play also makes you more physical aware and less mental. This means ideas you end up with are more grounded. Play should be applied more in meetings, game design, and certainly eduction.
Specials
As both a social innovator in diverse fields, like music, sports, education and an event designer be sure to discover he's not afraid to try new things. He let children coach adults, developed a team sport you can't win at the cost of others and led large group rituals at diverse festivals to open en or close the event.
Latest News
Projects, Adventures and New Services
Early November Gaella Grace, our American business partner sadly died due to cancer, and let's be honest, also due to fighting the US healthcare system. Part of our work will be continued in Flourish & Fly.
Started since March 2021
You're invited to a new kind of school, one of wonder: the Playground. Together we find our role for and in this world. The sessions will consist of central start, breakout sessions around your questions, projects, dreams, and improving inner leadership through dialogue.
Every Friday morning open Session CEST (UTC+2) 10-12:30 AM
Every session there will be a prepared theme that offers a path. Online methods on offer are dialogue, miro, play & experiment.
Find some of Floris' educational blogs here, earning him the title of Radical Pedagog.
Together with an Italian Team we work on an international game app, a kind of Tiktok for a better and more beautiful world. What can we say: Spots will be everywhere!
Training & Festivals
(not) Coming Up in 2021
Due to the Corona outbreak all plans changed.
Currently we are offering online workshops, key notes (even for India "The Power of Play" & Pakistan "Creativity & Authenticity"), think tank work towards a system shift and work on three game design projects.
Other things may be born in the moment, or happen through diverse collaborations.
This Winter in the UK and Netherlands
Competitive Coaching
Is it a performance? Is it an art? Is it serious coaching on stage? Then why is everybody laughing so much?
If you want your team, your conference, your training day spiced up with two professionals in coaching and performing for an audience then this is it, sharp yet lighthearted, focusses yet playful, fun and serious at the same time.
Charles Davies is an expert in giving people clarity, he's also a poet, a Buddhist and copywriter & consultant for organizations. He and Floris also have been opening and closing the Happy Start Up Summer Camp in England the last three years as a team.
Floris Koot is an expert at making things experiential, intuitive jumps in workshops and coaching. He's also a theatre maker, storyteller, trainer in organizations and blogger about psychology and our human culture.
Watch the video to get an idea.
The Way of the Fool
A playful path for self liberation and to become a system healer. Think that jokes or questions can work as acupuncture for groups.
Competitive Coaching
One of our special collaborations that have lead to unique programs for special groups or settings. Competitive coaching can boost team learning or lift up conferences.
Floris is involved in opening and closing rituals of three different festivals.
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Different Workshops
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PORTFOLIO
As FoolService we've been involved in many different projects and assignments. Many can't be shown as they were private sessions for companies, but here are some highlights of more public projects.
