Meet the teams of the Flourish in Nature Foundation

Team Flourish in Nature

Oda Salomons, CEO

Oda Salomons, CEO and Founder of the Foundation

She is the driving force behind the Foundation

Oda Salomons is an ecopsychologist & nature trainer and loves to connect people with nature

Compassion | Growth | Creativity | Safe learning space in nature

Sybren Bouwsma

Member of the Team Flourish in Nature, stutterwhisperer with a focus on green & inclusion

Gaia Sofie Theil

Member of the Team Flourish in Nature with a focus on storytelling, embodied learning and nature

Connector | Creative | Warm | Open | Sensitive

Lia van Loo

Member of the Team Flourish in Nature with a focus on building leadership skills and stress management with 8 Nature-based principles

Writer Handbook Natural Leadership ( in Dutch)

Positive | Down to earth | Creative | Teamplayer

Marc Kösling, Germany

Member of the Team Flourish in Nature,
…focus on peace and conflict tranformation, mediation and “Do No Harm”.
Steady | Resourceful | Optimistic | Humorous

Jaimy Jozefzoon

Member of the Team Flourish in Nature with a focus on Intercultural learning.

Enterprising | Adventurous | Eager to learn | Curious

The Supervisory Board

Saskia Dingemans

Chair of the Supervisory Board

Systemic interim-manager with over 25 years experience in business services

Teamwork | Connector | Systemic work | Healthy organisations

Maud Stamsnijder

Vice Chair of the Supervisory Board

Maud Stamsnijder is studying public administration and socially engaged in community service.

Equal opportunities | Low literacy | Mental health | Youth participation

Jan Til

Member of the Supervisory Board with a focus on Finance, Projectmanagement, Leadership & Social Entrepeneurship

Ali Shah

Member of the Supervisory Board

Reflective | Attentive | Youth participation | Appreciation

Circles around the Foundation

Friends of the Foundation

Paula Verkuijl

Facilitator Team Flourish in Nature with a focus on safe learning places (fysical, medical and mental)

Wouter Verkuijl

Foodie and facilitator on the Youth Exchange Care for Nature

Bertine Steenbergen

Bertine is an expert in the area of bushcraft skills, living off the grid. With her company Back to Nature she wants to inspire people to live a healthy live, full of satisfaction and wonder, with respect for themselves and nature.

Do your want to become a friend and/or volunteer of the Foundation? Are you interested to follow an international training course on nature & health and bring back your learnings to your workteam by giving them a workshop in the topic of the course?

Or maybe you love to help during a project, with logistics, group leader? Maybe you love to give a workhop on an international youth exchange. We love to hear from you!

Send a mail to: Oda@flourishinnature.org

Rob Molthoff

Art Director. Rob designed the beautiful logo and the look & feel of the design.

Administratie Van Haag

Karin Felix van Haag is our support on daily finance. Her motto is: Peace in your accounting is peace in your head.

Inspirators for the Foundation

Hugo Verkuijl

Hugo Verkuijl is an expert in the area of business coaching, personal coaching and whatever coaching and he dares you to follow your heart and see where the path is going.