After completing the year-long training “Connecting with Yourself and Others,” Sharon now supports me as a business coach in building my own company. Our coaching sessions are truly powerful. Sharon works from deep presence, offers loving confrontation, and goes straight to the core.
Together, we work on standing fully behind my own programs and daring to build my business from my full potential. The coaching gives me inspiration, a sense of grounding, confidence, and leaves me feeling deeply energized. I’m genuinely excited to continue this work with her in the years to come.
I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone running their own business.
That sentence “speed over perfection”… it’s gold, Sharon. It activated something in me immediately. Within minutes, I recorded a video using the tools I already had. And tada… it works just fine! Why did I make it so complicated for so long?
It really is all mindset. Your words light me up — also because you say them, and I’m able to receive them from you. I’ve only just started the course (I’ve watched bits of three videos so far), and it already feels so good. I knew I wanted to continue working with you on my business.
And tadaaa — here we are again.
Just what I need.
Love,
Jose
I’ve had six beautiful Breathwork days at Raafwerk. Alongside working with powerful breathing techniques, such as connected breath, you also learn how to guide them yourself.
All of this took place under the loving guidance of Sharon and her team. There was a lot of joy, expertise, music, moments of friction (which I appreciate), and above all, a great deal of gentleness and love.
Thank you!
I completed the six-day breathwork facilitator training here, and it has brought me a great deal. The days were deeply meaningful, with breathing techniques alternating with shared knowledge about the breath, training in facilitation, and — above all — direct experience.
Sharon and Marijn created a safe and supportive container for all participants, which allowed me to learn on a deep level and truly open myself. The focus is on you as a human being and as a facilitator, and on leading by example in breathwork and the processes that come with it.
How much I’ve learned from six days of breathing at Raafwerk. Becoming aware of my breath and where it gets stuck. What is that place in my body trying to tell me?
Through various breathing techniques, I journeyed inward — listening to what needed to be heard. What a compass to navigate by. Wow.
All of this took place under the professional guidance of Sharon and her team. A loving container — spot on, and fierce when needed. Her musical instruments and dance lifted us beyond words.
Life-changing.
What a richness.
Grateful, with love.
I did it. During the year-long program Connecting with Yourself and Others, I truly came home to myself. I feel more grounded, more energized, and I’ve learned so much about myself — and about how I show up in connection with others.
Returning to my family of origin and working with that system helped me recognize and acknowledge patterns in my behavior. I learned to look discomfort in the eye and to allow the great not-knowing to exist. I feel more valuable than ever.
With Sharon as a guide, it was sometimes intensely challenging — and always safe. Alongside all the knowledge and practices, there was plenty of humor, dancing, and delicious food. Sharon has an exceptional ability to sense what each individual — and the group as a whole — needs. She continuously challenges and invites you to grow and to dive inward together.
This year-long program has been a precious gift — one I continue to draw depth from every single day.
With gratitude,
Satnam 🙏
In a beautiful location, surrounded by nature, a sense of safety and coming home is offered immediately by Sharon, Marijn, and Josie.
The two-day Breathwork experience was a true journey of discovery. Through music, singing, dance, and breath, my body and soul were able to truly meet. During one of the breath sessions, I was able to touch something and let it go, after which I felt my true essence in complete stillness — love.
In a playful, loving, direct, and intuitive way, Sharon and her team shared valuable lessons with me about breath and facilitation. A gift to myself, which I now also feel called to pass on to others.
Grateful.
Body language reaches far beyond words.
During the training Body-Oriented Work, I moved another step closer to my longing and my core, guided by the incisive questions of Sharon and Marieke.
I feel calmer, quieter, and softer than before. More and more often, I can feel a full connection with my body, and I’m able to stay — even when things become challenging. Leaving (disconnecting) used to be much easier than staying, until I learned how to remain with my own discomfort and that of another.
How beautiful it is to connect so deeply with myself and with others. I am deeply grateful for this meaningful developmental process and wholeheartedly recommend the Body-Oriented Work training.
Struggle, guilt, shame, alone… the four S’s that were strongly present in my body before I started the Body-Oriented Work training at Raafwerk. Beautiful, safe, and intense days in which I encountered all of my S’s. By feeling into my body, I was able to truly face them in their full presence. I could land in all the grief and pain of my shadow side. And what magic it is when, afterwards, light and love are felt — and energy quite literally rushes through your body.
Guided by another S: Sharon. Sharon, what a true craftswoman you are in the art of facilitation. Loving, decisive, and straight to the point. The live music you create — so intense and deeply touching.
And yes… sometimes painful.
And yes… healing and incredibly supportive.
I have spent many days working with various facilitators. You truly made the difference for me.
Thank you 🌸
When I first met Sharon years ago, I knew she was the person I needed to be with for this. Sharon has a gift for immediately revealing what is really going on — who or what stands in the way between you and your longing. The training is deeply body-oriented. For me, it was a real challenge to move out of my head and into my body.
When I tell friends about this journey, I say that I have come home — both literally and figuratively. I have taken my rightful place in my family of origin, which brings an immense sense of calm. When I find it difficult to make a decision, I ask myself whether the choice aligns with my values. And when I notice that I’m too much in my head, I place my hand on my chest and return to myself.
And the most beautiful part: I am finally happy to be me.
With love,
Janneke ❤
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Breath and bodywork — it is never finished. There is always another layer revealing itself, asking to be seen and healed. Sometimes a very deep layer, sometimes one that has been waiting near the surface for a long time.
Wherever you are in your journey, Sharon, Marijn, and their team guided this six-day Master Breath & Bodywork training with immeasurable value, professionalism, and love. Moving through the entire process was a fantastic adventure and a true joy to experience. The sweat lodge left a deep impression. A genuine shift took place through connected breath. And after the dancing, life consistently felt lighter and more easeful.
I truly look forward to passing this beautiful work on myself. Thank you, Sharon, for who you are and for what you do.
Sylvia
The beautiful breath journey at Raafwerk has left a deep impression on me. Over the course of the six training days on the path to becoming a breathwork facilitator, you undergo a true transformation. Not only professionally — I also feel deeply enriched as a human being.
The structure of the days is thoughtful and well balanced. They are filled with knowledge, and above all with experience in the broadest sense of the word, combined with groundedness, humor, and a lot of feeling. The entire Raafwerk team creates a very safe and solid container for learning. You can truly feel their experience, as well as the love and care they put into the work.
All of this takes place in a beautiful location, surrounded by nature, with plenty of space during the breaks to literally put your feet on the earth.
Deep gratitude to the team and to the group with whom I was able to make this journey.
AHO
Today I completed the four-day Master of Breath & Bodywork, after also having participated in the two-day breathwork training. Sharon and her team share their knowledge and wisdom with so much passion, love, purity, and inspiration.
What a special journey I was able to make. I never imagined that the breath could bring so much — and facilitate such deep transformation. Immense thanks to dear Sharon, Marijn, Josie, Dieke, Dimphy, and Tinka. Each of you is truly exceptional.
What a special journey the breathwork facilitator training has been. I learned so much about how the breath can support relaxation, bring you back into the body, and guide you inward again and again — to feel what truly matters and what my truth is. From there, letting go of what no longer serves.
Raafwerk feels like coming home.
A year with her — through the four seasons, from spring, where everything comes into bloom, all the way to winter: the time of reflection, meaning-making, and creating space for a new season to emerge.
During the year-long program Connecting with Yourself and Others, I moved through all these seasons on an inner journey. I met different layers, discovered new ones, and shifted from knowing to truly understanding — again and again by descending into my body.
I could not have given myself a more beautiful gift — and with that, everyone I love. Relationships have deepened and healed, and I met beautiful souls with whom I was able to make this journey.
As a facilitator, I have become more attuned and clear. I see and understand dynamics on deeper levels, which allows me to choose different and more fitting interventions.
Sharon and Allard continually invited me in and guided me with great compassion and love. I have come home — to myself and to Raafwerk. A beautiful place where everything is welcome, with both laughter and tears.
I immediately had a good feeling when I first spoke with Sharon on the phone. Everything was explained clearly and with care, which made it easy for me to decide to join the two- and four-day Breath & Bodywork training.
It felt really valuable to take part in a training that I was able to fully experience myself, while also learning how to guide others. That combination helped everything integrate much more deeply for me. The guidance was loving, yet clear and grounded.
Now that I’m back home and working with the different techniques, I notice a huge increase in energy, along with more relaxation, and a much stronger sense of being present in the here and now. I feel truly happy and grateful to have landed in such a loving, warm, and safe container — together with a wonderful group of people, where we were able to learn from and inspire one another.
Thank you, dear Sharon, Marijn, and the rest of the team.
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Het volgen van 2daagse ademwerk was een heerlijke en fijne ervaring. De positiviteit, energie en kennis die je meekrijgt is goud!
Voor mij die anderen begeleidt in het zetten van stappen en balanceren in het leven, was het wederom een fijne bevestiging. Dat je met beide benen op de grond ruimte maakt om te voelen. Dat het opdoen van diepgaande inzichten gepaard kan gaan met heerlijk lachen en jezelf los laten gaan. Leren en geniet was het.
Dank je wel lieve Sharon!
Wat een fantastische locatie en wat een geweldige begeleiding van Sharon en Marijn op de 4 daagse masterclass ademwerk. Duidelijke uitleg van de stof, de achtergronden en prettige to the point begeleiding om zowel de ademtechnieken te oefenen als wel het begeleiden van een client. IK heb zoveel bedding, warmte en liefde mogen ervaren tijdens de opleiding, wat geleid heeft tot prachtige reizen in mijzelf en daarbuiten, waardoor ik mijzelf weer een beetje beter heb leren kennen. Ik kan het iedereen aanraden! Veel liefs Ronald
After being introduced to Sharon and her way of working during the Personal Leadership masterclass, I started a personal coaching trajectory with her last year. I looked forward to it — and felt some apprehension at the same time. We agreed that the coaching would take place online. At first, I saw this as an extra challenge, but within five minutes that barrier had completely disappeared. Even through video calls, Sharon knows how to touch you and invite you to truly engage in the work.
Sharon has the ability to hold up a mirror in a loving way. Never judgmental, never harsh — which meant I didn’t go into defense. From her grounded presence, she offered me insight into the patterns I had learned and the protective strategies I used to avoid feeling what was really there. Being deeply touched through a screen is an art not many coaches master.
What I appreciated most was how precisely Sharon sensed when to take a step back and when to gently challenge me a bit more — always from love and genuine attention. Because of this, I experienced a level of growth in just a few sessions that I never would have imagined. I feel more grounded, acting from trust. The energy is flowing through my body again.
This is a journey I would wish for everyone.
Six days of turning inward through the breath during the six-day Master Breath & Bodywork. I was able to experience and facilitate different techniques with an enthusiastic and open group.
From the very first moment, there was a sense of safety and connection that made it possible to enter this inner adventure together.
Thank you, Sharon, Marijn, and Josie, for the warm and loving guidance.
Master Breath & Bodywork at Raafwerk feels like coming home.
Coming home to my body — the body that responds honestly and purely, and tells me what I sometimes don’t want to hear. Through breathwork, I learned to use the power of my breath and my body even more fully.
Like many of us, I can easily escape into my head. The breath brings me back into my body, which continuously shows what is needed or helps me breathe through emotion and live more freely.
In four days, I received a whole new toolbox and feel ready to use it. How wonderful to learn here through lived experience — not from books or theory.
The sweat lodge, voice liberation, and connected breathing were magical experiences. Just like in the year-long program, moving through all the seasons once again.
Dhanyavad, Sharon and Marijn — it was wonderful, once more.
What a beautiful journey I was able to make thanks to Sharon, Marijn, and the group I was part of. It felt like coming home — a place where I could fully be myself and continue to explore. The dark and the light, through all layers. Safe, held, and supported.
I am deeply grateful that I was able to discover breath and bodywork at Raafwerk. So that I, too, can let my light and love shine further into the world.
At last.
What a truly beautiful learning experience it has been. I can wholeheartedly recommend any training or course at Raafwerk. It’s a wonderful blend of joy, learning, and meeting parts of yourself that are ready to be seen. This allows even intense and heavy emotions to arise while the overall experience remains light.
Raafwerk is unique in the way they work — you can truly feel that it comes straight from the heart.
I experienced the Body-Oriented Work training as an intense inner journey, one that brought me fully back home into my own body. The path toward self-love was, for me, filled with obstacles. In her own confronting, loving, and direct way, Sharon helped me learn how to truly live life from a place of self-love.
I was able to let go of old patterns and beliefs to a large extent. From now on, it is time for a new story — one in which I am increasingly allowed to speak and live my own truth.
Open, intense, light, and deep — all at the same time. I felt feminine power in the sensual woman: softness and connection without stickiness, fully grounded, feet firmly in the earth. Playful, joyful, and fun.
Thank you,
Janneke
Freedom, surrender, me, welcome… what magical days The Sensual Woman has been. Guided by Sharon, in a beautiful environment, within a fully free, warm, and welcoming container. Through meditation, dance, and exercises, I returned to the basics — which I was able to rediscover. Something that, apparently, had always been within me and has now awakened.
The closing experience was connected breathing — a breathing technique that brings suppressed emotions and feelings to the surface, creating space to process them. I cannot describe this experience in words; this is pure feeling. Moving forward with more calm and a deeper sense of self.
Thank you, Sharon.
With loving guidance and within a safe container, we were taken as a group into the breathing exercise. An invitation to open and surrender — to what is stored in the body, to what the body has to tell. An exercise in being open to intuition, and in feeling and experiencing on a deep level of awareness, where the ego no longer plays a role.
Supported by beautiful musical vibrations, Sharon guides you through this transformative journey in a gentle yet powerful way — because that is what it is: a journey home. And then, afterwards, to feel the energy and perhaps especially the stillness within yourself and within the group — that is magical. Connected to the self, connected to the whole.
Where body, trauma, and breathwork meet. At Raafwerk, I learned so much from Sharon and the field she creates. Experiential work, grounded in clear and meaningful teachings.
Sharon is deeply true to herself, and from that uniqueness she knows how to truly touch you. I would love to return for another training in the future.
I followed the breathwork training at Raafwerk with great pleasure. Even though I already knew quite a bit, I still learned many new things. I use the tips and exercises both for myself and for others (breath coaching & breathwork).
The guidance was very grounded — lots of doing rather than theory.
Oh, and a delicious lunch too 😉
I completed the four-day Master Breath & Bodywork training at Raafwerk. Sharon, Marijn, and the rest of the team provide a safe space to learn — and above all, to truly experience. Thank you for the beautiful guidance.
I experienced The Sensual Woman as a magical two-day journey, deeply rooted in the body, during which I discovered and rediscovered parts of myself. All of this took place under Sharon’s highly skilled, loving, and playful guidance, which allowed me to fully surrender to the experience.
I feel freer, more self-aware, and filled with self-love. What an experience — bringing both deep calm and, at the same time, a vibrant sense of aliveness and life energy.
In two days, reclaiming my woman — my sexy, playful woman?
Yes. Yes.
Un-meeting. Un-folding. Shyly discovering.
That’s how it begins.
Then seeing how well you already know each other.
Recognize each other.
Then the rawness is allowed in.
Then everything is welcome.
Yes.
Sensual woman.
The approach of Sharon and the rest of the Raafwerk team is one that helps you land almost immediately, to land in the (beautiful) place where you are, and above all, to land within yourself.
Decisive and always loving, with humor and a touch of self-irony, they create the space and safety to look at , and move through, everything that is present. With breathwork as the path leading the way, it has helped me continue walking that path with trust.
A special journey, The Sensual Woman. A journey in which, in connection with other women, you touch yourself and one another. A journey toward freedom, softness and sensuality. Next level!
Grateful for this beautiful breathwork training or rather, this journey.
I arrived in a warm, welcoming space where all fellow participants were fully allowed to be exactly where they were, in their full presence. A breath journey in which you come to know the full power of your own healing capacity.
This inner journey is essential, as it teaches you where you are and where there is still room to learn and grow. I chose to follow this training to better support clients with trauma in learning how to feel themselves again. Breathwork is now part of my daily work and my daily life, and I am incredibly grateful to Sharon and Marijn for their loving, practical, and decisive guidance.
Thank you, Sharon, for your grounded presence and decisive guidance during Breathwork and Master Breath & Bodywork, which allowed me to surrender to the wondrous phenomenon of the breath. So ordinary (I’ve been breathing for years), and yet through your exercises it has become an instrument offering experiences that bring me home — into the body, into the present moment, and into the soul.
The rich range of instruments, along with the singing and dancing, helped create space for play and deepening. And those are exactly the things I want to do in this life: to play (with a touch of mischief) and to go deeper.
Breathing — it remains so magical. I feel deeply grateful that I found my way to Sharon and her team. A very safe setting where I was able to truly surrender. The two-day Breathwork training has been a confirmation for me of the path I want to follow: more feeling, more embodiment. Less understanding, more experiencing.
I know I still have steps to take, and at the same time, through being able to guide alongside my own experience of what breath can do, I feel that this is something I want to pass on — and that I truly can.
Thank you all, with love.
During the two-day Breathwork training, filled with gaining knowledge and practically applying it through receiving and guiding the breath, I felt safe to freely experience. I also took dancing with me as a technique 🙂
Thank you for your kind and loving guidance.
What a fantastic journey I was able to make with you — thanks to you. There are no words for The Sensual Woman; it is something to be experienced, lived, felt, and enjoyed.
I was able to dance myself free and rediscover my energetic, joyful, radiant self.
Thank you.
How wonderful it is when a coach truly meets you where you are. Through her loving and skilled guidance, Sharon invites me to connect with my longing and, through breath and touch, shows me where things flow and where they get stuck. Just as in the Inner Child training, we encounter an old pain with a deeper longing beneath it.
In my case, there was a movement of yawning and swallowing things down, yet there is space for everything that presents itself. Sharon translates exactly what my body is showing. It’s not a quick fix, but she offers very clear guidance on where my attention is needed.
Each time again, it is a warm field in which to connect with all of myself.
Even when you think you’ve already faced quite a lot…
I recently had a beautiful experience with Reiki and womb healing with Sharon. From the very first moment, I felt her loving and powerful way of working. During the session, there was such a gentle and safe energy that I was able to fully surrender.
It’s almost impossible to put into words: it felt so deep, so healing, and so special. Afterwards, I felt not only happy and calm, but also strong and deeply connected to myself. An extra special detail: for the first time in a long while, I slept through the entire night after the session — which, for me, says everything about its impact.
I am truly incredibly grateful to her.
With a mix of excitement and fear, I went in — this was clearly going to be something real. And from the very start, we were taken straight into the depths. No fuss, no endless talking — just connection and firm, grounded love.
It was real and raw and deep and caring and well-held, and also tender and funny and moving and energetic and joyful and full.
There was no way around it — and that was exactly what made it feel so powerful and safe. It allowed me to go through the emotional wringer and come out clearer. At the same time, I learned during those days to get my hands dirty — and to take my rightful place there.
Working with Sharon made all the difference. I experienced my own choices in my body, rather than trying to understand them with my mind.
Now, weeks later, my connection with my body is still switched ON, and I benefit daily from what I felt and moved through during those three days. Something fundamental has shifted, and my life is genuinely flowing differently.
Thank you, dear Sharon.
The power of The Sensual Woman lies in the fact that there is little talking and mostly doing — experiencing through the body. I feel loving toward myself. It’s wonderful to notice that I feel at home in my body and that it does what needs to be done. I truly want to listen to it more and trust it.
It is no-nonsense, direct, with humor, and guided with great expertise and experience.
Thank you,
Janny
Sinking even deeper into myself, turning inward, feeling, moving, dancing, crying. Feeling where my strength lives, breathing straight through the blockages to feel that I am alive. Connected to myself, warmed in places that were cold, and ready to continue my journey.
Thank you for this powerful experience at The Sensual Woman.
With love,
Jorien
Wow — and then there was the Masterclass.
De training Ademwerk van Sharon (en op dag 2 Marijn) is een groot cadeau geweest. Al haar kennis en kunde die gedeeld konden worden in 2 dagen, overgoten met een hoop plezier en liefde. Inademen, uitademen. Bewegen en verstillen. Het verbinden van de ziel met het lijf. Mogen spelen met ademwerk, het zelf voelen én toepassen en leren op de ander. De diepte in zónder te vergeten om te genieten van het moment. Dankjewel lieve Sharon, ik kom graag nog terug om meer van je te leren! Liefs Tess
A beautiful training if you want to fully experience breathwork. The passion and experience of Sharon Hanegraaf are contagious and inspiring. The master program is designed in such a way that you fully experience and feel the different forms of breathwork yourself — which is incredibly important if you want to guide breathwork sessions for others.
An absolute recommendation!
A training at Raafwerk is a true gift — one I wish for everyone. The four-day Master Breath & Bodywork once again left a deep impression on me. A beautiful group of kind people, each with their own reason for being there.
For me, it is a journey of getting to know myself a little better again, recognizing old patterns, and letting them go when they no longer serve me. Thank you for allowing me to take another step on that path.
During the Body-Oriented Coaching training, I came to know Sharon as a highly skilled trainer who consistently knows how to translate all of her knowledge and experience into the language of the body. Where we often tend to escape into our heads, she lovingly brings you back into connection with the body, the place where all our survival mechanisms are stored.
Sharon is finely attuned, gentle, and lovingly confronting. She knows exactly how to name the pain point from which we keep repeating patterns, and when we are inclined to leave, to disconnect from ourselves.
And beyond that, the training days with Sharon are truly a celebration as well. Filled with humor, dancing, and wonderful body-oriented exercises that help you land more fully in your body. On a personal level, I’ve learned to recognize much earlier when I am touched by an old wound, allowing me to return more quickly to the here and now. I have become gentler with myself. Where I used to adapt and take up little space, I am now increasingly taking my place from my full being — with both my light and my dark sides.
Professionally, I have learned how the body of the coachee offers information about the themes that are present, and how to use body-oriented exercises within guidance and coaching.
From carrying the world on my shoulders to feeling the world at my feet. This is the transition I made in three days under Sharon’s guidance. And the name Personal Leadership does not do this three-day training justice. This experience is a true life changer. And the beautiful thing is: you do it all yourself — with just a little help from Sharon.
Sharon has the gift of opening your heart to your deepest desires, of reconnecting your head with your soul, and of letting you experience how you grow when you dare to trust that inner compass. And I’ll be honest: it was hard work. There were no shortcuts, no magic wand, no secret formula — just real work. Getting your hands dirty up to your elbows. Doing things that ask you to let go of judgment toward yourself. That ask you to release the judgment of others. That ask you to trust — to trust yourself. To love yourself.
With her unique sensitivity, Sharon knows exactly what to do or not do, what to say or intentionally leave unsaid, in order to help you find your path and step into your strength. Many trainers and coaches promise that your life will never be the same after their program. Sharon doesn’t promise this — she delivers it.
So if you’re done carrying the whole world on your shoulders, and you’re willing to do the work, Raafwerk is a safe place to do exactly that — and to meet your true self.
Sharon, my dear fellow travelers, and the Raafwerk team: thank you for this unforgettable experience and for the difference you have made.
Vague shit 😉 but it was a magical journey — the Personal Leadership masterclass — with you sitting on our shoulders like a fairy. A journey that isn’t over yet, but has really only just begun. You touched me deeply from day one. You look straight into the heart, while at the same time staying refreshingly practical and grounded.
Sharon, you truly see people, and I feel privileged that you made the starting signal of my journey possible. Thank you for that. How amazing that you crossed my path — lovingly supported as well by Marieke. These days were a real trip, and I promise you: many more journeys are still to come.
All my love,
Georgette
The training was a journey through life toward my own life. Intense, vulnerable, and beautiful, and always in motion. On the way to where I come home, to myself. I am happy with the steps I’ve taken and grateful for the trust I received along the way. And throughout all three days, there was also joy and playfulness in being alive, which I truly enjoyed.
With love,
Jeanet
Once
Once I was
Once I was nothing
Now
Now I am
Now I am everything
What the Personal Leadership masterclass has given me is this:
something I already knew, sometimes felt, sometimes felt very clearly, but did not yet understand, has now become a blueprint.
A blueprint of who I am meant to be,
and the shoes I finally fit into.
Dear Sharon,
I came from far this time. In the beginning of the Personal Leadership masterclass, I found it difficult to move, but I kept feeling your trust — from which I was able to slowly open. Thank you for your beautiful words, your confronting and loving words, and your touch. I will be back for the year-long program.
A big hug
Thank you for this journey, through which I have quite literally begun to feel bigger. I came to the Personal Leadership masterclass with the intention of creating more balance between mind and body. You gave me the nudge I needed to step into my strength.
From my own strength, I can now move forward.
Thank you for that.
Big hug,
Larissa
Dear Sharon,
I would love to thank you with all my heart for all the warmth I have felt over the past days. The biggest journey I had to make was daring to open myself. You created the safety for that, and helped me feel that safety within myself and trust it.
Step by step, I was able to feel love for myself as well. Where I thought I couldn’t do this in a group, you helped me see that this was actually exactly what I needed. And it truly was. Feeling that this is a path I am meant to walk for myself, and that I am not alone on it.
I’ve had a taste of what’s possible, and now I want more.
Thank you for this.
From day one, from the very first moment, it was spot on. No round of introductions, yet an immediate sense of safety and a clear understanding of why we were there: how do you take leadership in your own life?
If you want to move from knowing to feeling, this masterclass will support you in that. You give yourself the greatest gift possible. Sharon, and Josie as well, create a safe container and support the process by asking questions and continuously inviting you to respond from your body.
A beautiful balance of body-oriented and systemic work, along with a deeply loving meditation.
Thank you.
With love,
Carola
Sharon you are wonderful, honest, and genuine. Not always easy, and often confronting, but ultimately, that is exactly why I am here: to learn during the year-long training in professional communication. You have the ability to ask the right questions and make incisive remarks that move me to explore and experience things for myself.
I am grateful that I was able to make this journey with you.
Today is the last day of a beautiful journey that was allowed to last a year. How special it has been to make this journey with you. It can be quite challenging to truly look at yourself in contact with others during the year-long Professional Communication training. Yet you managed to create such safety within the group, while also speaking that one sentence or word that truly lands — something you feel resonate in the body.
I also find it beautiful to make this journey together with a group of fellow participants. Going deep together, and then rising back up again. For me, this journey is certainly not over, and I know I will find my way back to you.
With love,
Petra
The puzzle pieces are falling into place. Sharon’s guidance during the year-long training was at times gentle, at other moments confronting, clarifying, and occasionally uncomfortable. But above all, there was a deep sense of trust and safety.
At the start of the training, the inward journey and feeling into my body still felt vague and a bit abstract to me. Now it gives me strength, and a warm, steady thread to hold onto.
During the year-long training, I learned that all answers can be found in the body. How to use the body as an instrument in coaching. What you carry with you from your system of origin and how that shows up in everyday life. How to connect with individuals and with a group. And how all of these experiences are essential in deepening your own facilitation and guidance.
A training filled with love, depth, real stories, pain, and joy. Sharon is an exceptionally skilled and decisive trainer and coach. I have learned an incredible amount from her.
The two-day Women’s Power training came at exactly the right time for me. Coming from a life surrounded by many men, this experience allowed me to take a meaningful new step — both in my own feminine development and in a related personal grief process.
Sharon has the ability to truly “read” the body — an incredibly beautiful gift that I would love to develop more in myself as well. At the same time, by creating a safe atmosphere within the group, she opens the space to be vulnerable and to step beyond your comfort zone. After all, personal growth happens precisely where things begin to feel uncomfortable.
A strong recommendation for every woman who wants to fully embrace her femininity.
Women’s Power under Sharon’s guidance is an absolute recommendation. Sharon is decisive, humorous, loving, and knows exactly what a group of women needs. She ensures that Women’s Power becomes a beautiful inward journey — a journey of coming home to yourself and to the feminine lineage.
She does this with love, conviction, and deep sincerity from her heart. I am so grateful that I gave myself this beautiful journey.
Thank you, Sharon.
A year to bloom. That’s how I look back on the year-long training in Professional Communication from Head, Heart, and Body. Where I was still hiding at the beginning, this training invited me to step forward and truly bloom.
The structure of the themes fit beautifully and each time offered a new step in awareness — insights into where you come from and who you are. Sharon and Allard’s guidance is loving and challenging at the same time, creating a sense of safety that makes it possible to take those steps.
My gratitude is great.
With love,
Josie
When there is a year-long program like this, with the heart as its point of entry, a sensitive and professional leader like Sharon is the perfect guide. She moves among and above the group, creating a sense of connection with each person. This connectedness makes it possible to journey inward and arrive as a more whole human being.
I feel deeply grateful to have experienced this year and to have been guided by you.
What a beautiful “closing” to our coaching sessions. This was something I truly needed. I feel both recharged and deeply rested at the same time.
I rarely give myself a gift, but this masterclass was a wonderful one. Thank you so much — for your enthusiasm and your insights.
Sharon is a very warm personality who, through her enthusiasm, knows how to motivate everyone. Professional, engaged, and trustworthy. A touch of perfectionism is certainly not unfamiliar to her.
A year ago, I read a post by Sharon on LinkedIn. So powerful, so on point. That’s when my decision was made: I wanted to follow a course or training with Sharon and Raafwerk. The Personal Leadership course gave me everything — and more. Connection, and a deep sense of coming home.
In an environment and a group where I felt safe and lovingly welcomed, there was ample space to bring in your own personal process — regardless of the fact that we were working within a group. Everyone mattered equally. Everyone received the same unconditional attention.
Thank you, dear Sharon. I’m sure we’ll meet again in the future.
Sharon, it’s incredible how you led and guided this journey. I felt so welcome, loved, and safe. Professionally, everything was exceptionally well put together — the sequence was perfect. Everything was attuned to the group dynamics and shared longings, to the moment itself, and to individual needs.
I enjoyed it deeply, I grew through it, and I came home. I learned to love myself again. Thank you for your loving gestures and support — even at a distance of one and a half meters. Without you, I would not have returned home feeling so fulfilled, content, and truly at home.
Dear Sharon,
Thank you once again for a beautiful and valuable training. In your connecting, honest, and intuitive way, you delivered another powerful experience. Personal Leadership is about coming home to who you truly are.
Thank you for the safety and the depth.
At first, taking part in the Personal Leadership masterclass felt challenging, but soon it became a homecoming to myself. It was warm, loving, and healing. What incredibly valuable days these were. I truly enjoyed the wonderful group and its unique dynamic.
Sharon has the special gift of reaching everyone’s core in a loving way. I wish this kind of masterclass for everyone. I am certain that both the masterclass itself and everything I took home from it have marked a very important turning point in my life — and for that, I am deeply grateful.
Thank you for the beautiful inward journey. You know exactly how to place your finger on the sore spot and, in a clear and sometimes confronting way, get straight to the core and truly touch it. There was no escaping it for me, and that was exactly what I needed to come even more fully into my body and dare to be vulnerable. So valuable.
I was also deeply impressed by the safety and space you created within the group from the very beginning. Warm and powerful. What beautiful energy, what love, and what insights. I can wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone who wants to give themselves a genuine step in personal development.
Thank you, beautiful soul.
With love,
Mabel
The year-long program Connecting with Yourself and Others is a truly beautiful and valuable training.
It wasn’t always easy, but I enjoyed the training days so much. Not knowing exactly what would come — how challenging that can be — and then realizing how much I learned along the way.
All of this took place in a beautiful natural setting, with a delicious and healthy lunch each time. A very kind group of participants, excellent guidance, and so much shared knowledge from Sharon.
Dear beautiful Sharon,
Thank you for allowing me to make this incredibly exciting, and deeply special, journey with you. With a wonderful group of fellow travelers who brought so much energy and recognition along the way. And how precious it was that you sensed so intuitively when the emergency brake needed to be pulled, so I wouldn’t rush past myself like an express train, but instead be allowed to slow down like a local train, taking the time to do what needed to be done.
To clear, to heal, and then gently set the train back in motion, with connection. In doing so, my own goals became clearer, and I gained the trust that the final destination is a beautiful one. My destination.
Without your intuition, expertise, love, and warmth, I would not have dared to take these steps. And where you sometimes took the helm for me, I now hold it myself — with trust and self-love.
Thank you for this beautiful journey.
A deeply grateful, loving hug from me.
Some encounters are so powerful that they immediately show you where you are meant to be. That’s how it felt when I met Sharon. In her Body-Oriented Coaching training, I came to know Sharon as a warm, wise, and powerful woman. She knows how to create an atmosphere where love forms both a safe container and an invitation to step beyond your comfort zone.
A magical combination that brought me a great deal. Working with the body is still a new area for me, and Sharon helped me realize just how much wisdom is held there — not only for me personally, but for our society as a whole. I’m really looking forward to the follow-up training.
I am deeply grateful for the beautiful journey I made during the Body-Oriented Coaching training at Raafwerk. From the very first hour, Sharon truly touched on themes that are deeply important to me. Throughout the training, these themes were lived and felt more fully, which allowed them to soften.
I experienced the training as a profound enrichment of both my personal development and my professional field. I see Sharon as a true craftswoman who, together with the participants, knows how to create a dynamic of safety, trust, encouragement, and reflection. Truly valuable.
I began the Body-Oriented Coaching training with the belief that I could only feel safe within myself. By the end of the second day, that belief had changed. Sharon offers this sense of safety through her very presence, through the questions that are asked, and just as much through the silences.
How beautiful it is to sink into the body, to feel what is yours and what belongs to another. To truly meet your own body. To learn about the roles of victim, perpetrator, and rescuer. About taking your place and welcoming your leadership.
I completed the training with a deep sense of richness.
In November 2019, I followed a three-day Personal Leadership masterclass through Raafwerk. Sharon is a very approachable and genuinely interested coach, someone who immediately puts you at ease. I learned a great deal about working with the body, feeling emotions in the body, and how to relate to them.
She has a strong intuitive sense for people and helped me gain the insights I needed during a difficult period in my life.
It has been a few months now, but I still look back with great pleasure on the multi-day Personal Leadership workshop. Working with a small group of people, in a safe and calming environment, I was able to focus deeply on myself. Sharon has the gift of quickly placing her finger on the sensitive spot. Without judgment, yet with clarity and precision, she helped me stand more firmly in my life.
Highly recommended for anyone who could use reflection and guidance.
Thank you, Sharon!
I learned from Sharon how to engage in coaching in a truly embodied and wholehearted way. She gave me profound insight into myself, which helps me become a better coach. I’m really looking forward to continuing my learning journey with Sharon next year.
During an intensive three-day Personal Leadership program, Sharon guided the group beautifully. She has a strong sense of when to let you work things out for yourself and when to step in and support you. With her sense of humor, she creates just the right balance.
If you have the opportunity to develop yourself at Raafwerk, do it.
Truly. Do it.
Two weeks ago, I took part in the Women’s Power weekend. Together with five other women, we experienced a truly beautiful weekend. I am deeply impressed by Sharon’s guidance. She makes you feel at ease very quickly, nothing is too much, and with plenty of humor, there is also space to release and unwind.
This weekend brought me so much. I searched for stillness within myself, looked into my mother’s eyes, and was able to feel the beautiful women in my female lineage. I am very glad that I gave myself this weekend as a gift. With the insights I gained, I am able to sink another layer deeper into my body.
Sharon, once again, thank you so much. You have helped me take another step in the right direction on my path. I’m ready to keep walking.
I experienced the Women’s Power workshop as intense and beautiful. Under Sharon’s inspired guidance, together with women I had not met before, we journeyed inward to the deepest place within ourselves. During this workshop, we felt, talked, shared, cried, laughed, ate, danced, wrote, hugged, meditated, and above all, connected. Connected with ourselves and with one another.
Sharon, thank you for this experience. Thank you for the held, loving, and at the same time powerful space you create, rooted in love for yourself and for others.
Looking back on the Personal Leadership masterclass, it has given me valuable insights. Insights into patterns that keep repeating themselves, into behavior and actions, also when making choices. For everyone, this masterclass holds clear added value.
During the course days, among other things through beautiful group exercises, you gain insight and are able to deepen your own development further. This development strengthens the relationships we enter into, both privately and professionally.
I can and truly dare to recommend it to you.
I am deeply grateful for my meeting with Sharon, for the training, and through that, for the meeting with myself. In such a loving, powerful, and at times gently challenging way, Sharon shows you what your themes are. Always within a sense of safety that makes you willing and able to truly look at them.
The training is truly a personal process, and precisely because of that, you learn the tools to work with as a coach. Her way of working is clear, practical, and rooted in direct experience.
Thank you for this beautiful experience.
I look back on the intense days of the three day leadership masterclass with a good feeling. I now realize, at the age of fifty three, that earlier in my life I was never taught how to engage in intimacy. In communication with individuals and with groups, I would go my own way, follow my own path, say or share nothing, or walk away. That was the path I knew how to walk, and it gave me a sense of safety. At the same time, there was also the confrontation with my surroundings and with myself that something was not right, although I never knew exactly what it was.
Now my eyes have opened. And still, I remain aware of my tendency to say nothing, to walk my own path, and of the fact that I am searching for how to move forward from here.
I receive great support from the kundalini exercises Sharon gave me, which I have been practicing every morning for almost four weeks now, as well as from breathing into my belly in certain moments.
Thank you, Sharon.
Dear dear Sharon,
Yesterday I wrote on the Raafwerk website that Raafwerk is a beautiful place to search for and find richness within yourself. Sharon Hanegraaf is the driving force behind Raafwerk. I have come to know Sharon as a devoted, loving, and authentic trainer. She is highly skilled and experienced. She sees and hears everything, and with her it feels safe. Safe to explore where you feel stuck and where you want to move forward, because it truly supports you in daily life.
Sharon draws from a wide range of methods and insights, including transactional analysis, NLP, and systemic work, applying what is needed in the moment. She is gentle and firm at the same time. You are approached with love. I am deeply inspired by her and by the way she looks at the body. The body does not lie.
During the training, you walk your own path. I made my own journey. Sharon gave me tools to begin coaching myself, and I am excited to put them into practice. You gain insight into your own patterns, your own masks, and what has not yet been seen. During the yoga and coaching training, I felt what was needed in order to be able to guide others myself.
Sharon, thank you for your openness, warmth, knowledge, skill, and great craftsmanship. I would love to return to continue developing and refining myself. Now I am also standing on my own feet.
I experienced Sharon as a highly skilled coach and trainer. The training I followed, yoga and coaching, continuously alternates between theory and practice, which allows the material to truly settle. Sharon has an exceptional ability to place her finger on sensitive themes. She does not hesitate to touch them. Because she does this from the heart and from connection, it feels right and safe.
Dear Sharon, thank you for this special journey and for all the insights it has brought me.
Sharon is a highly skilled and strong trainer. She guides you with love on your personal path. She is able to stay right beside you for as long as needed, and also to sense when it is time to step back. She offers you the opportunity to experience insights on a deeper level within yourself and your body. If you are willing to receive, she has so much to give.
During an intensive three day Personal Leadership program, Sharon guided the group beautifully. She senses very well when to let you work things out on your own and when to help you move forward. With her sense of humor, she creates the right balance.
If you have the opportunity to develop yourself at Raafwerk, do it.
Truly do it.
The way you guide me in my development is difficult to describe with words. Why? Because you have to experience who you are. Still, I want to give it words, from the connection with my heart.
In your guidance, you are pure and loving to me. Your purity shines through in the way you embody powerful vulnerability. Your loving nature shines through your directness, always rooted in care and attentiveness in guiding others, allowing each person to grow along their own path.
You are able to do this because of your incredibly rich experience, which you generously chose to share with me.
There I am. Together with Sharon and nine other participants in the Personal Leadership masterclass. Uncertain looks, or calm ones. Truly calm, or not? The round of introductions is about to begin. I quickly search for my standard phrases, but before I know it, something begins to move. Suddenly, I find myself in a roller coaster. And not one for beginners.
Sharon likes to move straight into it. After the first ride, we are all catching our breath from the shock. Was this really the intention? I could still run. But I do not want to run. Not anymore. And just like with any roller coaster, you have to overcome your fear to get in. And then to do it again and again.
And when a ride has been too intense, Sharon is there to catch you with love. Just as lovingly as she guided you toward the roller coaster in the first place. On the third day of the masterclass, I am disappointed that it is already over. And so deeply grateful that I was able to be there.
Friends for life.
A life that will never be the same as it was before the masterclass.
In 2017 and 2018, I was introduced to Raafwerk through the body oriented trainer training. Sharon’s way of working truly captured me, always focused on personal growth, in a decisive and loving way. The trainings are unique in their form, which is why they leave a deep impression on me every time.
Through this, I am able to take significant steps in my personal development and come closer and closer to my core.
Wow, what beautiful stories and how incredibly inspiring they all are. Just reading these stories makes me want to join another training right away. I have also followed a training with Sharon myself and I must honestly say that she is a truly wonderful human being. She brings out the best in people and continues until everything that is there has been brought to the surface.
Sharon, I want to thank you for your time, strength, and dedication that you invested in us. Thank you for being there for me.
What an amazing weekend I had with Women’s Power, organized through Raafwerk. It was certainly exciting to emphasize your feminine side, especially within a group of women you did not know. But it was so much fun. We laughed, cried, and danced freely. Everything felt relaxed and full of respect for one another.
In the week that followed, I continued to enjoy the experience through the music we had shared. It truly gives you a boost. Sharon, thank you for your guidance in this. You know how to make everyone feel at ease. Women’s Power is something I would recommend to everyone.
Sharon is a fantastic coach. Alongside her razor sharp analysis that allows her to reach the core quickly, she also knows how to create safety and openness. Sharon has a strong approach that is filled with softness. She uses clear and accessible language, is inspiring, and brings in wonderful humor wherever possible. I followed the Women’s Power training with her and experienced it as meaningful and loving.
Sharon touched me from our very first contact. I was ready for deeper growth and felt that this was a place where I could and was allowed to grow. As a coach, Sharon uses her own love and vulnerability to create insight in a direct yet gentle way. She takes you on a journey, while you determine your own path.
She confronts and inspires. During the training to become a body oriented trainer and coach, Sharon especially taught me to trust my own strength, heart, vulnerability, curiosity, and intuition even more. With her humor, enthusiasm, and sensitivity, she creates movement and a sense of trust.
With Sharon and Raafwerk, it was absolutely a place for me to come home and to grow. As a trainer and coach, but above all as a person.
I experienced Sharon as a devoted, loving, humorous, and authentic trainer. Her unique way of approaching everyone is filled with passion and love for people and for life. By showing her own vulnerability and sharing personal stories about her past, her loving partner, and her deep love for her daughter Raafje, she creates a safe and homelike environment. You truly feel that you get to know her.
She is strong and gentle at the same time, and in an intuitive way she knows how to find the right words and ask meaningful questions in every story and situation. I am deeply inspired by her and by the way she looks at people and at life.
Anyone who works with the body should follow the body oriented coach and trainer training at Raafwerk. During the training, you walk your own path, which makes the program incredibly valuable on a personal level. You gain insight into your own patterns, your masks, and emotions you have taken on from others and always believed were your own.
I cannot wait to apply what I have learned in practice and to guide others on their path. In addition, the training has given my own yoga classes a Sharon inspired quality, with even more listening to, observing, and feeling the body.
On to the systemic work training at Raafwerk.
Traveling with Sharon is an enormous enrichment as a person. She is sharp minded and therefore able to immediately grasp what things are truly about. From a place of love, she knows how to touch, reflect, and confront. With these qualities, she is able to create deep and lasting movement.
Sharon embodies the training in body oriented coaching and facilitation. She has humor, courage, playfulness, exceptional expertise, sharpness, softness, and always works in a practical and experiential way.
Following a training or program with Sharon is truly unique. I have never met anyone who trains, confronts, and inspires so deeply from the heart and from love. You cannot avoid being set in motion in your own personal development, and she creates a group atmosphere in which you dare to face anything together.
In addition, on a professional level you receive a solid foundation of theory along with many inspiring exercises and tools to work with yourself. You learn to work from love and from and with the body. Sharon herself, the beautiful setting, the atmosphere, everything aligns.
Raafwerk is a place to come home to yourself. I felt it was a true privilege to have experienced this. Thank you for everything, Sharon.
I am a pragmatic and down to earth person with a strong interest in bodywork, training, and coaching, as long as it is practically applicable. This exact combination is what I found in the Raafwerk training Body Oriented Trainer and Coach. I have worked with many trainers, and in my view Sharon truly operates at the very top level in the field of training.
From a place of pure love and high professionalism, she guides participants through both theory such as transactional analysis and NLP, as well as through the direct experience of bodywork and the practical application of all these elements. This combination makes the training incredibly valuable. Experiential learning is useful and enjoyable and ensures that after completing the training you feel confident to start working independently.
I am grateful that I was able to follow this training.
After the first training block of body oriented coaching at Raafwerk under the guidance of Sharon Hanegraaf, I notice that my body and my mind want to meet each other. How? I have no idea, but I tell the group that I trust this will come together in time.
During the training, I am gently yet firmly invited to look at myself again and again. Where do I feel this? Which belief about myself lies beneath it? What do I avoid or create through my thoughts and beliefs about myself and others?
My mind is asked to work in order to meet my body. What do I feel? Which emotions do I know well? Which were not allowed to be there, and which were? And what does that mean for me, then and now?
Two parts that once felt separate come together through body oriented coaching. What am I feeling? Is it mine, or does it belong to someone else? How wonderfully beautiful this feeling of coming together is, mind and body.
Thank you, Sharon, for asking gentle yet precise questions, for your warmth, your vulnerability, and your genuine joy and pride in the personal development of us, the participants in this training.
Jeannette van der Weck
Body oriented trainer and coach
With Sharon, I followed the training to become a body oriented coach and trainer. Sharon is a woman with deep insight who knows how to touch you, even in places you may not yet know yourself. Everything she does comes from love and from the intention to help you grow and develop, with the right balance of warmth, stimulation, and let’s not forget her humor.
Sharon is a true professional in body oriented training.
I have known Sharon for many years as a trainer and as a coach. Her way of working is unique. She is deeply passionate about her profession and lives it fully. She does this in a way that is both direct and gentle at the same time. Direct, because she does not wait to let you experience, feel, and live what is present within you. Gentle, because she always does this from love, even when it is painful.
During the yoga coach training, she touched me in exactly the way that was right for me. Throughout the training, I learned so much more about myself. This helps me to be a coach and trainer who looks at others from a deeper, more holistic place, rather than only listening.
Thank you, Sharon, for helping me grow again, both professionally and personally.
I thought for a long time about the words that could describe Sharon’s special qualities. Through various personal leadership trainings, I came to know Sharon as an incredibly warm, kind, decisive, critical, honest, and open trainer who challenges you to truly look at yourself and knows exactly which questions to ask along the way.
In addition, she gives a great deal of attention to the body, allowing you to work with yourself on every level. A trainer and coach I would wish for everyone, if only because she is such a genuinely kind and authentic human being.
The Yoga Coach training is a fantastic opportunity to bring yoga and coaching together. A beautiful combination that feels new and works incredibly well. Sharon has brought her two passions together, and you can truly feel that. She has boundless enthusiasm for the work she does and firmly believes in its success. That energy is contagious and helps you develop trust in the offering you will later share with others.
The training days with Sharon are deeply inspiring. Time and again, she knows how to touch the right place, sometimes a painful one. This ensures that you grow not only as a trainer, but also as a human being. And in the end, that is what it is all about.
Curious, with a bit of tension and an open mind, I began the yoga coach training with Sharon. It brought me so much. Sharon inspires and motivates in a playful, authentic, and deeply loving way, and teaches you to act from your own strength in exactly what she herself stands for: more connection with the body in the business world.
All of this takes place in a safe environment with wonderful fellow trainees, in a beautiful location.
Sharon heeft mij laten zien dat leiderschap niet alleen vanuit kracht, maar juist ook vanuit kwetsbaarheid ontstaat. Zij is heel goed in staat om haar aanpak aan te passen aan de personen en situatie. Effectiviteit en sfeer weet zij optimaal te creëren. Zij heeft als coach mij persoonlijk weten te raken en de focus weten te leggen op de meest effectieve wijze van zelfreflectie en persoonlijke ontwikkeling . Vooral in mijn situatie een knappe prestatie, om dat ik (met een aardig aantal al meegemaakte trainingen) nogal sceptisch was over het gewenste resultaat. Chapeau!
I came to know Sharon during the yoga coach training for the business world that she facilitates. Her passion and professionalism are contagious. Her involvement with you as an individual and with your role within the group ensures that you truly grow and are able to take the steps needed to coach others.
After four months, I can honestly say that I have grown further as a professional, and also personally. Thank you, Sharon, for all the wise lessons and insights.
During the Talents program, I first met Sharon during an intake session. What stood out immediately was her ability to truly understand people and to do so with complete openness. A conversation with her is never uncomfortable, yet it always goes straight to the core.
During the training From Tension to Strength, I experienced an intense but very successful day under Sharon’s facilitating guidance. If you are looking for a training to transform stress and tension into strength, look no further and attend a training with Sharon.
Sharon made a deep impression on me. Her honest and clear feedback gave me illuminating insights. In addition, her guidance was warm, personal, and truly special.
Sharon, what a wonderful human being you are. I was a little apprehensive beforehand, but after the three days I look back on it with great pleasure, thanks to you. I gained so much from the exercises and the conversations. You guided everything with care and warmth.
Thank you.
In three days, witnessing, feeling, and applying a transformation within yourself and in relation to others. Blockages become visible and open for dialogue through Sharon’s guidance. She creates a safe setting through pure sensitivity, where inner growth finally gets the space to unfold.
An experience never to let go of.
Sharon has the gift of bringing potentially soft or abstract material into the light in a crystal clear and down to earth way. I have seen her work multiple times with groups who had never encountered yoga or meditation before and were very hesitant about it. Yet Sharon consistently manages to engage even those people with enthusiasm.
She does this by embracing all resistance, allowing that resistance itself to become a meaningful learning experience for the participants. Because Sharon is not only skilled in yoga and meditation, but is also an exceptionally sharp trainer and coach, she knows how to translate the themes that arise in training programs seamlessly into how they are expressed in the body.
It has been almost a year since the introductory day with yoga and meditation, and it is still vivid in my memory as a beautiful day. A day on which Sharon touched me with her loving, open, and engaged energy, and I was able to experience what giving space to your body and heart can do.
It takes courage to come into contact with your body and to feel what is happening there, especially for someone who has often lived in the mind. But I can now say that it is an absolute enrichment. An enrichment for myself and for how I relate to life and its challenges.
Thank you, Sharon, for allowing me to experience yoga and meditation in such a beautiful and personal way, and for helping me open my eyes to what else is possible.
Sharon is down to earth, direct, and has a great sense of humor. In a compact training, she knows how to bring people straight to their limiting patterns and invite them to experiment with them. Before you know it, everyone is lying on their yoga mat, wrestling with their own resistance.
Thoughts like
Does the teacher see how well I am doing
Are we doing this again
Oh no
Let me just check my to do list
Can I please leave now
This uncomfortable experience turns out to be a rich source of learning material. Sharon supports you with questions like
What is the parallel with your work
Do you choose the same strategy there
Where are you placing your focus right now
The result is an experience that is etched into my memory and a physical anchor. I know what I can do next time when I notice myself trying hard and hoping to be seen.
Keep you posted.
Alongside her clear and appropriate directness, Sharon Hanegraaf shows a high level of empathy for the person she is coaching. She thinks and feels alongside you, creating the sense that you are standing side by side throughout the coaching journey. Sharon gives you freedom in the choices you make during your process and continuously responds to them with creativity and flexibility.
Whether it concerns the central coaching theme or other matters that are weighing on you, Sharon is there for you. This involvement, openness, and dedication in her work make Sharon a coach who, in my view, can work with every type of person.
I have come to know Sharon as a passionate, sensitive, and purposeful trainer, with an exceptionally kind and sincere character. This combination allows her to confront participants in her trainings with underlying pitfalls in a very respectful and supportive way, something that is incredibly valuable for further development.
Sharon asks deeper questions, listens attentively, and dares to fully trust her intuition in contact with people. In doing so, she shows that with a completely open attitude, you can never truly miss the mark.
Sharon, I have come to know you as an exceptionally sincere, highly skilled, and warm person. A deeply engaged trainer with an enormous understanding of people. As a coach and trainer of the modules Persuasive Power, Sensitivity, and From Tension to Strength, you have enriched me with valuable insights that continue to support my personal development.
It was special to experience how you weave your own compelling life story into this work. You held nothing back in order to guide me as closely as possible toward my training goals, regardless of the moment or the issue at hand. The first Breath Pause Walk in the Drunense Duinen was, quite honestly, a true adventure.
Thank you for all your strength, trust, and wisdom.
I followed the Sensitivity training and the From Tension to Strength training with Sharon. Sharon is an enthusiastic and wonderful person who creates a safe environment in which everyone is free to say and do what they want. Because of this, the training group becomes a close and connected group, and the training goals are more than achieved.
Highly recommended if you want to further develop yourself in this area.
Sharon has a decisive, confronting, creative, and at the same time warm way of working. I experience her as honest to the core, spontaneous, highly professional, and knowledgeable. Through her open perspective, broad background, and wide range of interests, she quickly finds an approach that is both original and well aligned with the question and the goal.
I came to know Sharon in my role as an HR advisor. One of her strengths is her ability to quickly and directly identify blind spots with individual employees, within teams, and at management level, and then to continue the guidance with a gentle and supportive hand.
I have also come to know Sharon privately and witnessed her immense dedication in building the foundation of her company. What a positive energy.
In 2015, I followed an Embrace session with Sharon. After the first fifteen minutes, I was so deeply triggered by her that I decided to leave the organization I had worked hard for over twenty seven years. After that, I had at least five more sessions with Sharon.
Through these sessions, I learned again to see who I am, what I am capable of, and how to deal with insecurities. I am once again standing at the center of my own life. Every session with Sharon is surprising. Each session has a different form, with clear space for my own input as well.
Sharon communicates openly, works powerfully, and quickly knows how to place her finger on the area that wants to be developed. Even during the final session, when I thought I had already arrived, she opened my eyes once again to the fact that things can always be approached differently.
If you feel stuck within yourself and want something different, Sharon is the person who helps you rediscover yourself, allowing new possibilities to emerge for your work and your personal life. And that is truly wonderful.
During the Embrace Your Talents workshop, Sharon shook me awake almost immediately. She touched me and knew exactly how to strike a sensitive chord. A sensitive chord that causes me to hold back from certain things that could actually help me move forward.
I enjoy learning more about myself, and these workshops have certainly contributed to that. Sharon came across to me as a kind, driven, and highly skilled woman. With the right questions, she invites you to think deeply, and her advice can be exactly that final nudge you need.
I am grateful that I was able to get to know Sharon and the Level Foundation through my employer.
During the Embrace Your Talents sessions, you quickly go deep and are confronted with both your strengths and your weaknesses. Based on these, you explore together which roles might suit you and how you can make even better use of your strengths. Sharon guides everyone in a very enthusiastic and lively way and ensures that, with the right questions, you are invited to reflect even a bit more deeply on yourself.
What also stood out to me was how quickly she understands how people are wired. The personal conversation that followed the two sessions was very pleasant and clarifying. You receive answers to questions that were still open, which allows you to use the insights you gained as guidance for your future.
The only downside I experienced was the length of our conversation. Personally, I would have liked it to last longer than the half hour we were given.
I came to know Sharon during a horse coaching session. With great enthusiasm and dedication, she guided us through this workshop in a relaxed and engaging way. Her beautiful horse held up a very clear mirror for me, and Sharon offered clear feedback and tips that I could immediately put into practice.
In a very pleasant yet sometimes confronting way, the horse reflects your behavior back to you. My actions and intentions had a direct impact on the horse’s behavior. Nothing escapes Sharon’s attention, and she knows how to translate every response of the horse into clear and understandable human language.
A wonderful workshop with highly professional guidance for anyone who wants to gain more insight into their leadership and behavior within a group or in the workplace.
I have come to know Sharon as a flexible professional. She quickly understands you and reflects your behavior back to you with clarity. From there, she helps you move forward with practical tips and exercises. What I truly appreciate is her personal way of supporting people. Her interest goes beyond the professional or business side, which makes her sincere and special.
I always feel so happy and deeply touched during a training with Sharon. Women’s Power was truly special. I joined to step into my own feminine strength, and wow, what a process it was. The softness, openness, and at the same time the decisiveness with which Sharon guides you through your story feels magical.
Time and again, she touched exactly the right chord and managed to open, connect, and heal eight women who had never met before in just two days. Thank you for your warmth and your wisdom.
With love,
Josie
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