About House of H.I.

Why House of Human Intelligence?

Our story

We live in a time when artificial intelligence is evolving at breakneck speed. Technology helps us think, analyze and produce faster. At the same time, we're seeing more stress, burnout, polarization, loneliness and a growing need for connection and meaning.

We believe the greatest challenge of our time isn't just technological progress, but human development. That's why House of Human Intelligence came into being.

Not as a consultancy firm. Not as a therapy centre. Not as a classic training institute. But as a development house where people, leaders, teams and organizations can grow in what truly makes them human. Concretely: coaching, team development, leadership development, organizational guidance, training and education.

Photo: Nimsa Photography

Mission

We help people and organizations develop Human Intelligence.

Because the future doesn't belong only to those who understand AI. It belongs to those who can consciously choose, connect, collaborate, learn, lead and create meaning.

Why 'House of'?

A house is more than a place. It's a space where something can come into being.

Where people come together, share perspectives, learn and experiment. Where you can slow down for a moment and get moving again. Where difference is welcome and connection can grow.

Research shows how meaningful places can contribute to a sense of safety, connection and wellbeing. We carry that idea with us, even when our meeting place doesn't literally consist of four walls.

House of Human Intelligence wants to be such a place.

Not an institute that proclaims a single truth, but a house with different rooms, perspectives and practices. A place where we share knowledge, develop human capacities and jointly care for what we create: for ourselves, for each other, for organizations and for what comes after us.

What makes us different?

Four choices we make deliberately

Scientifically grounded

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We connect science, practice and experience. Current insights from psychology, neurobiology, leadership and organizational development form an important compass. We look critically at what works, for whom and in what context, and combine the best available evidence with professional expertise and the reality of people and organizations.

Head and body

We connect coaching and reflection with embodied coaching and insights from IFS, Somatic Experiencing and polyvagal theory. This way we work with what people understand and experience, so new insights also become visible in different behavior.

From individual to system

Change never happens on just one level. We guide people, teams and organizations, always looking at the broader context in which they function. This way we connect individual development with team dynamics, leadership, organizational culture and the systems people and organizations are part of.

Human Intelligence in an AI era

The smarter technology becomes, the more important our human intelligence becomes. We strengthen human capacities such as reflection, connection, embodied awareness, collaboration and wise judgment, so technology can strengthen us without pushing the human element out of decision-making, leadership and collaboration.

The Circle

One house, a growing circle

Ida is senior in content and experience. Around her, a circle of coaches and partners who help carry the house is growing step by step.

Katrien Carael

Coach & HR professional · Connector

Works mainly from Embodied, Reflective & Relational Intelligence

Founder & senior

Ida Veldeman

“I guide people and organizations to root themselves in their own rhythm, so they can grow, flourish and move from authenticity and inspiration.”

Change rarely happens just by knowing more.

Ida Veldeman has been guiding people, leaders, teams and organizations through growth and change for twenty years. Drawing on her background in psychology\/educational sciences and anthropology, she combines expertise in coaching, leadership, group dynamics and organizational development with a body-oriented, trauma-informed perspective.

Her starting point is simple: we don't change just by understanding something better. Our body, our relationships and the systems we're part of all play a role. That's why Ida looks at what happens within people, what arises between people, and what's in motion in teams and organizations.

She has worked at, among others, Ghent University, and for many years developed and taught programmes on teams, organizational design, coaching and group dynamics at Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, where she is also a supervisor affiliated with the Leadership Expertise Centre.

In her individual coaching work, she deepened her expertise in areas including Somatic Experiencing, IFS, embodied coaching, polyvagal theory and breathwork. Within organizations, she works on leadership, collaboration, psychological safety, culture and change.

Her style? Warm and clear, curious and unafraid of friction. With attention to what the head understands, what the body tells us, what happens between people, and what the bigger picture needs.

Not knowing more as an endpoint, but gaining more room to see, choose and act differently.

Ida is a lifelong learner

Leadership, teams & organizations

Years of experience developing and teaching programmes on teams, leadership and organizational development, including Working in Teams, Working with Teams, Organizational Design, Social Psychology & Group Dynamics, and methods for peer intervision and supervision.

Supervisor within the Leadership Expertise Centre at Artevelde University of Applied Sciences.

Additional training and frameworks: Deep Democracy (levels I, II and III, 2020-2025), Transactional Analysis (TA), Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Systemic coach (2020), Team coach (2016), Team coaching · Coaching the Shift (2023), Inspiring coaching of groups and teams (Center for Selfmanagement, 2016).

In practice: more than 500 hours of team guidance and more than 1,500 hours of supervision and coaching for managers.

Coaching & guidance

PCC (International Coach Federation, since 2024), certified career coach (since 2015), certified stress and burnout counselor (VESB, 2018), integrative trauma therapist-psychosomatologist (2021), systemic coach (2020), team coach (2016), outplacement coach (Federgon, 2018), Reset Facilitator · reintegration after burnout (Antwerp Management School, 2021), Fire coaching (Agape, 2022-2023), Team coaching · Coaching the Shift (2023), Provocative coaching (YourCoach, 2016), Positivology (Academy for Positive Psychology, 2020).

Human behavior & communication

Transactional Analysis (TA), group dynamics and social psychology, Nonviolent Communication (NVC).

Body-oriented & trauma

Somatic Experiencing Professional Training (in progress, 2025–2028, Trauma Healing Belgium), Internal Family Systems level 1 (IFSCA, 2025), Polyvagal Theory (Amber Gray, Agape, 2023), Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing (2025), Trauma Release & Breathwork Facilitator · foundation and deepening (InnerJourney, 2023), Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma (NICAMB, 2024), Embodied Coaching & Psychotherapy (TA Academy, 2024), Embodied Coaching (Mark Walsh, 2025), Embodiment Coaching (Embodiment Unlimited, 2025-2026), Grief and loss (Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, 2024).

Programmes developed & taught

Resilience Coaching Programme · multi-day training for coaches.
Embodied Trauma-Informed Coaching · six-day training, in collaboration with YourCoach.
Methods Training in Peer Intervision & Supervision · three-day training, taught for six years at Artevelde University of Applied Sciences.
Giving Connective Feedback · training for professionals and organizations.

Professional quality & supervision

Member of ICF and VESB. Continuous professional development is a fixed part of this work: annual participation in peer intervision and, since 2022, structural external supervision in areas including IFS, Somatic Experiencing and stress and burnout counseling.

Academic foundation

Licentiate in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Master's), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven (2005).

Initial teacher training programme, secondary education group 1 (English, Dutch, history), Artevelde University of Applied Sciences (2001).

Get to know our vision and approach

A development house for the human skills that make the difference. For individuals, leaders, teams and organisations.

ida@houseofhi.be
Gijzenzele, Belgium