Clarity in complexity.

Growth through insight.

For those who want to understand themselves, others, and the situations they navigate.


And for leaders who know real development begins by inviting that mindset into their teams.

Here’s where we begin.
Four themes, many paths, all tailored to your context.

Problem
Solving

One person offers a triangle as a solution while the other expected a square, thinking: “Great solution—wrong problem.”

Have you ever implemented a perfect solution…,
for the wrong problem?

Jumping to solutions feels fast, but solving the wrong problem, wastes time and energy.

Crack the Real Problem.

A stick figure looks at a confusing signpost with advice like “be authentic” and “take initiative,” asking: “What does it mean?”

Personal
Leadership

Feeling inspired but
unclear about personal leadership?

Inspire personal leadership with clear direction. Turn confusion into confident action.

Own your growth, make it real.

Intercultural
Teams

Three figures stand in different shapes and contexts, wondering: “Are we even speaking the same language?”

Are cultural
misunderstandings quietly hurting your team?

Cultural differences, when misunderstood, quietly damage trust, teamwork, and productivity.

Tackle culture confusion now.

Stick figures try to solve a puzzle using mismatched pieces, one thinking aloud: “What puzzle are we actually solving?”

Better
Collaboration

When did collaboration stop feeling collaborative, and start getting tricky?

Misaligned teamwork leads to frustration, wasted effort, and poor results, inside and out.

Hands-on with better teamwork.

Participants playing a web-based serious game together during a live session.

Why Serious Gaming Works

Serious Gaming is powerful because it offers direct, experiential learning in a safe environment. Unlike traditional training, it actively involves participants, allowing immediate experimentation, reflection, and improvement. Your team members don’t just talk about better communication, leadership, or collaboration, they experience it firsthand, instantly understanding why it matters and how it works.

After every game session, teams observe their behaviors and outcomes, gain insights, and immediately test improvements, creating lasting clarity and tangible improvements.

Clients consistently report rapid improvements, deeper insights, and lasting positive changes from Serious Gaming sessions.

Serious Gaming does not prescribe 'correct' solutions. It helps you and your team safely explore multiple possibilities, reducing complexity into actionable clarity that fits your unique context.

Participants move colorful pieces on a strategic board game during a session.
A group of participants focused on a digital escape room game during a training session.

Why Generative AI
Helps

Generative AI is not here to replace human thinking. It’s here to widen it.

In our sessions, AI acts as a creative partner: offering unexpected angles, fresh analogies, and playful “what ifs” just when ideas start to circle back on themselves. Whether the focus is problem solving, personal leadership, intercultural teamwork, or better collaboration, AI helps participants stay longer in curiosity and open up new possibilities before narrowing down to the ones that truly matter.

Combined with structured dialogue, reflection, and Serious Gaming, AI becomes a catalyst for deeper insights and more inventive solutions. It brings lightness back into learning and working together, keeping energy high, perspectives diverse, and creativity alive.

Team members reflect on decisions while playing a serious board game in a guided session.

Alexander de Haan
PhD, MSc, MA

Analist, teacher and coach.
Founder and Partner Living Motion.

Suzan Valstar
MA

Trainer and program developer.
Partner Living Motion.

Arne Bezuijen
MSc

Serious Game developer.
The Barn.

Linda van Veen
MSc

Serious Game developer.
The Barn.

Linda Mebus
MA

Trainer and program developer.
EduLin.

Bas van Nuland
MSc

Serious Game developer.
The Barn.

Korinna van Balkom
BSc

Designer and Illustrator.
Korinna van Balkom Design.

Pieter ter Doest
MSc

AI application developer.
Freelancer.

Liesbeth van Alphen
MSc

Trainer, consultant and coach.
FlyingZebra.

Renée Tentori
MA

Teacher and program developer.
Freelancer.

Julia Sira
BSc

Serious Gaming session developer.
Freelancer.

Fernanda Diniz Brandão
MA

Program developer.
Feelancer.

A network of professionals. A place where ideas land.

We work with a close group of professionals, trainers, educators, game designers, illustrators, analysts, and others. Not a loose network, but a collaboration that has grown over time. It’s shaped by shared values, creative chemistry, and the experience of working together on things that matter.

These connections don’t happen overnight. We meet through the work, get to know each other, and gradually build trust. Sometimes we move on. What remains is a group of people who challenge each other, support each other, and enjoy working together.

And you’ll notice that as a client. It shows in how sessions run, in the clarity of the insights, and in the way everything fits together. For each project, we bring together the people who match, practical, engaged, and tuned in to what’s really going on.

Behind all this is a small, dedicated company, started by one, now carried by two partners, who believe in collaboration, simplicity, and a fresh perspective.

No big claims. Just rolling up our sleeves and getting to work. With pleasure.

No obligation, just a chance to talk.

Find out what we offer and what might fit your context.

Visit us

 

Berkebroeklaan 90
2498 AH Den Haag
The Netherlands

Hours
We’re available Monday to Thursday — by appointment. That way, you get our full attention (and a fresh coffee).

Want to set something up?
info@livingmotion.nl