Anneleen De Clercq founded Corestar, realising her desire to create a framework that would help individuals and teams to maximise their personal and professional potential. Anneleen grew up in Antwerp, Belgium, and then, post university, moved to Switzerland to start her career. She moved to London in 2019 and lives in SW London with her family.
Working across a range of sectors in both Zurich and London, including financial services and executive search, Anneleen became increasingly aware, from both her own personal experience and from observing colleagues and clients, that many professionals seemed caught in the trap of busyness, constantly reacting to external pressures with little room for self-reflection or downtime.
Anneleen began by exploring ways to improve her emotional wellbeing and manage her work and home life more effectively. Meditation proved to be a game changer, introducing her to an on-demand supply of energy resets and helping to create head space for more mental clarity and authentic thinking that could be channelled effectively to deliver better, more satisfying outcomes across all elements of her life.
So beneficial was Anneleen’s personal reset, she was inspired to consolidate her experience and use it to help others to gain a similar level of positive control over their busy lives. After training as a cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist and breath coach, Anneleen has continued to build her professional understanding of mind-body-soul integration, psychology, neurobiology, behavioural science and more, harnessing thinking, some of which has been around for centuries but which is now proving to be ever more relevant in our fast paced, over-engineered and demanding lives.
Corestar - moving to the next level
Anneleen initially established Teal Therapy, a private practice dedicated to helping individual clients to restore their inner balance and reconnect with their true values, helping reduce excess stress and the feeling of being overwhelmed by life in the process. Teal Therapy remains an ongoing resource for private clients, but the launch of Corestar is the material realisation of Anneleen’s vision to encourage prevention and give people the practical skills and insights to foster inner strength and avoid burn out by guiding them to uncover their inner core, the frequently undefined part of us that is formed by our thoughts, beliefs and experiences, and using that core to deliver a more authentic approach to life.
Corestar is designed to have a wider beneficial impact on individuals and teams within the workplace, equipping them with the tools to handle life's challenges while feeling fulfilled and in control. In the same way that many employers offer benefits to improve and maintain employee’s physical fitness, a similar investment in mental fitness can help to flex the mental muscles. Equipping employees with techniques to improve inner balance, personal agency and resilience can have a big positive impact on business performance, creating higher engagement, better retention, enhanced performance, stronger customer relationships, and improved employee wellbeing.
Drawing on Anneleen’s personal love of Spain, and particularly the tranquil beauty of the Costa Brava, the word Corestar combines ‘cor’ from the Spanish ‘corazon’or ‘heart’ and ‘estar’, which means ‘to be’ in Spanish.
“By understanding our true core selves and harnessing the potential we all carry within, we are better able to take responsibility for our lives and place ourselves in a powerful - and empowered - place of being.” Anneleen De Clercq.
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