From burnout and anxiety to Grounded leadership
Jack Smith - Co Founder, Vungle (600M exit)
"Working with Wout marked a turning point in becoming a better partner and father. I’ve felt the impact in my work too.
Our work on presence and emotional clarity has been especially valuable, and I’m grateful for the changes it has helped me make personally and professionally"
Client Story
Our work has included learning to come out of chronic overdrive, reconnecting with the body and emotions, developing greater capacity for rest and presence, and showing up more fully in relationships and fatherhood. Jack had already built and exited a successful company. On the surface, he had it all. Underneath — executive overload, anxiety with no clear trigger, a people-pleasing pattern eroding his relationships, and a nervous system still running on an old burnout programme. Over 40+ weekly sessions we worked across somatic meditation, IFS parts work, breathwork, relationship clearing, and boundaries. We went deep into nervous system, fatherhood, marriage, and identity. Layer by layer, the patterns shifted — from full emotional releases, to real-time parenting and project breakthroughs, to the kind of quiet inner stillness he described as genuinely new for him.
My Methodology
Presence leads. Senses reveal. Truth clarifies. Action integrates.
We start with what matters, get beneath the story, and turn what becomes clear into real-world change.
1. Start with what matters
We clarify what you want, what can no longer continue, and what this work needs to serve.
2. Drop in
We attune to what’s alive — thoughts, emotions, body sensations, tension, conflict, or whatever seems to be asking for attention.
3. Track the signal
We go beneath the story — tracking tension, emotion, impulse and conflict, then using the right tools to work with what your system is already revealing.
4. Follow what’s true
We let clarity guide the next move — and turn it into action, practice and tools you can carry into real life.
Not a fixed protocol. We follow what emerges, in service of what matters.
Informed by IFS-informed parts work, somatic work, embodied presence, nervous-system awareness, emotional processing, breathwork and contemplative practice.
Deep practice
10+ yrs of contemplative practice
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Daily meditation since 2015
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Multiple 10+ day silent retreats
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Extended periods in retreat centers and monasteries
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Studied and immersed in contemplative traditions (buddhism, hinduism, christianity).
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250hrs of multi-yoga teacher training
Human transformation
A decade immersed in inner work
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1000+ Personal transformational processes
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800+ breathwork experiences
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400+ processes facilitated
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IFS-informed somatic trauma work
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Men's work (5+yrs, Europe's largest men's work festival)
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Circling, Possibility Management, LTC, IFS, SE
Founder World
I know the rational world
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Computer Science background
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Former Software developer & consultant
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Founder of Creaw Web agency
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Private work with Founders, Entrepreneurs and facilitators (incl. Vungle, Drawbotics, Circling Europe)
An unconventional education in being human
A decade of going deeper
Work with me
Private Immersion -
A 3-month Journey toward a more fulfilling life
A confidential, highly personalized 1:1 container for professionals who are ready to give their inner life the same care and attention they've given their business.
We begin with what's most important to you.
Whether that's learning to relax, reconnecting with your partner, finding your direction, or experiencing more aliveness, we follow what matters while making progress visible in your everyday life.
What's included
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5 or 10 private 90-minute deep-work sessions over Zoom
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Weekly support over Whatsapp/Telegram available.
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In between practices, reading assignments & homework
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A personalized guided meditation or practice — shaped around your needs and goals.
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