Podcast episodes

Guest: Dr Colin Beard, Professor of Experiential Learning at Sheffield Business School, part of Sheffield Hallam University and National Teaching Fellow – Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

How to facilitate teachers to make the learning environment work in the 21^st century?

“If you are a fish the last thing you would discover is the water. In higher education, we have not given sufficient thought to our surroundings of teaching & learning, and yet they are fundamental for the process of learning. We have to wake up and realise that we are no longer fish where we ever haven’t thought about the water or in our case the places where we teach and learn.” (Prof Dr Colin Beard).

Definition of Experiential Learning:

1. When the experience takes centre stage.
2. The design of the experience takes centre stage in the learning (experience centred).
3. Focused around the learner (learner-centred).
4. Experiential learning is acquaintance with rather than knowledge of.

Let the learners do the learning. Don’t go too fast and don’t try to do too much. Using gesture-based technologies (spatial recognition) have the potential to liberate the human mind to the next layer.

Having a greater awareness of space is the first step. Teachers should their voice have heard in the tribes of real estate, facilities management, IT and Human Resources. But that begs the question do they know what their ideal classroom feels and looks like?

Guest: John Stuart Reid, Sound & Acoustics Engineer, Scientist – Keswick, United Kingdom.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

Cymatics is the process of making sound visible (also sound outside the range we as humans can hear) by vibrating a medium. Cymatics proofs, by visualizing audio frequencies, that vibrations have an impact on matter. Cymatics makes a direct translation of sounds into geometrical shapes. The science of visible sound.

Theme: Does a building has its own unique acoustic signature? Can it be enhanced to support human health and well-being? Geometry is the visible form of sound vibration. Therefore buildings and their components like materials, colours, shapes, angles etc., are in a way ‘frozen’ music. Architecture is a Symphony of Form.

Guest: Michael Tellinger, Scientist, Explorer, Author & Founder of UBUNTU Movement – Waterval Boven, South Africa.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

An exploration of some building blocks of Michael Tellinger’s research and findings of the effects of sound and frequency and then connect them into practical application in a Ubuntu university campus and schools.

Albert Einstein pointed already in the direction that the material realm is all energy (sound frequency) with his quote: “The field (energy) is the sole governing agency of the particle (matter).” The invisible is shaping the visible. Quantum physics define the energy field as invisible moving forces that influence the physical world. All invisible fields are measured by their effects. The same definition applies to spirituality and consciousness. So thoughts and feelings have the power to manifest into reality.

Geometry is the visible form of sound vibration. Therefore buildings (materials, colours, shape, angle etc.) are in a way ‘frozen’ music.

Guest: Adrian Incledon-Webber, House Healer and Geomancer, Richmond, United Kingdom.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

In this episode of The “E” of real estate podcast, we will explore the concept of ‘health and well-being in a learn/work environment (physical/digital/social). We will talk about the subtle unseen energies that can be detrimental to our health. Part of it is earth and building-related, part is electro-smog related and a big part is related to human thoughts and emotions.

The story of a real estate agent who made the transition from a left-brain materialistic life view towards a holistic (left + right brain balanced) one, to become a successful building healer and geomancer.

Disharmony and unbalances in the inner and/or outer environment creates stress for humans. Stress is an organism’s total response to environmental demands or pressures. There are several forms of environmental stress.

Guest: Derek Clements-Croome, professor, consultant, researcher and writer, London, United Kingdom.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

Intelligent Buildings should move away from a focus on technology and building efficiency, to a focus on the needs of owners, their businesses, and most importantly their people. The key players should work in a holistic ecosystem to offer one common purpose: creating better experiences for people.

Intelligent Buildings have existed for thousands of years but different centuries and cultures express them in different ways so what is an intelligent building? Is it one that serves the needs of people in functional ways but is also beautiful not just visually but in the simplicity and sensory ways it achieves these needs?

In the 21st century, intelligent buildings tend to be ones that are very technology-driven but already we can see the impact of changes in society in that they need to be responsible for the health and wellbeing of the occupants so bring in a caring and humane approach that offsets the hard faces of construction and technology. Too often an intelligent building is reduced down to the choice of a building management system but there is much more to it than that.

Intelligent buildings can become energy generators not only in the literal sense but also to charge their users instead of depleting their vital life energy.

Guest: Jan Cisek, Feng Shui consultant, trainer, mentor, researcher and writer – London, United Kingdom.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

Feng Shui, the Psychology of Place = Energy + Intention + Ritual. A big part of feng shui is based on common sense and good design. In this podcast, we will explore the application of evidence-based Feng Shui in the learn/work environment.

To boost user experience and maybe even study outcome? How can a learning environment (physical/digital/social) be used as a tool to enhance not only organisational goals but also user experience, health, well-being and consciousness? Effects of electro-smog and radiation (Wi-Fi, mobile masts, 5G, etc.) on wellness as well as productivity, creativity, job satisfaction and job retention and reducing stress in workplaces.

There are over 3300 papers on the health benefits of spirituality, and some of them are environmental, feng shui related. Over the last ten years, the values of people have shifted from having stuff (human values) to being and health (spiritual/transpersonal values) and people are seeking environmental solutions to reflect and align their homes with these new values.

Jan Cisek MSc Environmental Psychology and Feng Shui Society Accredited is working on his PhD in feng shui, which will relate to key feng shui principles that can be used in workplaces to boost productivity, innovation and general wellness. The spiritual and transpersonal dimension is an integral part of this approach.

Guest: Nick Franks, entrepreneur, inventor, expert in radionics and homeopathy – Wilmslow, United Kingdom.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

RADIONICS: SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE. Nick Franks made an attempt to answer the central question ‘but how could it possibly work?’ Radionics is a controversial therapeutic modality which combines Radiesthesia (pendulum dowsing and related sensory skills) with the use of psycho-activated codes, symbols and instruments.

Radionics has developed such that it may be used to treat not only humans but also animals, crops and soils, and, potentially, the ecosphere itself. The basis, therefore, is the contention that human consciousness can be projected in a manner that can influence the action of Nature to a positive effect.

Nick Franks made an attempt to answer the central question ‘but how could it possibly work?’ The attempt to answer this question forces a rethink of fundamental ideas about man, Nature, and the origins of what we perceive to be reality. In response to critiques of Radionics which claim it is some form of magic, Nick suggests that Radionic techniques arise from the inner structure of Nature itself.

Guest: Thomas Saunders, Architect FRIBA, Author, Tarot Specialist and Teacher – London, United Kingdom.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

An interview about architecture, myths & management gives you plenty of food for your own thought and reflection. Thomas Saunders has devoted much of his professional life exploring the bonds linking architecture, nature’s geometry and the authentic Tarot’s archetypes with the human experience, our health and the world about us. He is a chartered architect and Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA).

He was a visiting lecturer on Professional Practice and Business Management at the school of architecture now known as The University of East London. His presentations and seminars express the perennial esoteric wisdom of the arts and sciences that have been taught throughout the ages.

Goethe’s quote Architecture is frozen music—inspired him to research the fundamental principles of design, geometry and the structure of a building based on harmonic ratios, musical intervals and proportional volumes. These will resonate with the same harmonic ratios in our body. Such vibrational sounds and colours create a life-enhancing environment.

Guest: Architect Ibrahim Karim Ph.D. Dr Sc, Founder of BioGeometry – Cairo, Egypt.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

In architecture we have the adage: “Form follows Function.” (Walter Gropius, Bauhaus) Dr Ibrahim Karim, professor, architect, scientist, author and creator of BioGeometry has a more holistic viewpoint. “ENERGY AND SHAPE CREATE FUNCTION.”

Dr Karim is a truly Renaissance Man, who combines science and spirituality in a practical and applicable way for daily life situations. His unified harmonious worldview is based on a new multidimensional ‘PHYSICS OF QUALITY’- BioGeometry. The practicality of his worldview has been demonstrated in the environmental solutions that BioGeometry provides in many areas of life.

Dr Karim helps us understand how we can live richer, more ‘connected’ lives by learning the ‘language’ of Nature — the essence of BioGeometry. It’s a language that was known in the ancient traditions, including the Egyptian temple sciences but got lost.

If we could relearn it… if we could again communicate with Nature in its own language… we would then be able to examine our homes, learn/work environment, our health, our food, and our devices (such as cell phones), and determine whether they are supportive of life or not for ourselves, our pets, our environment. If they are not, the science of BioGeometry gives us, as verified by numerous studies, a way to directly adjust them so they become beneficial.

Guest: Tony Scofield MSc PhD former lecturer at London University and chairman of Radionics Association, Folkestone, United Kingdom.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

“If you think that the world is only material, then you are missing a huge part of human experience.” Dr Peter Fenwick

An interview about the symbiosis of intellectual rigour with open-mindedness to empower people’s health, well-being and potential. A trans modern shift into a new paradigm and state of mind that enhances mainstream science to include consciousness and spirituality. Reconciling science with man’s spiritual essence for a better quality of life and problem solving, both for the individual and organizations.

An open mind and a clear intent give the opportunity to incorporate the intangible spiritual subtle energies in reshaping and enhancing a university campus environment (physical, digital, social). Such an intervention can be used to cure and also as prevention by balancing and harmonizing the subtle energies.

Radionics: is a healing technique in which our natural extrasensory perception (ESP) faculties are used both to discover the energetic disturbance underlying illness and to encourage the return of a normal energetic field that supports health. It is independent of the distance between practitioner and patient.

Guest: Per Anker Jensen, Professor in Facilities Management at Denmark Technical University – Copenhagen, Denmark.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

Our environment (physical, digital, social) is an integrated system. Approaching it in a holistic way creates (more) value. Prof. Dr Per Anker Jensen MSc/MBA shares his viewpoints and learning how to manage and measure adding value with and through Facilities Management (FM) and Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM).

FM and CREM have had a strong focus on controlling and reducing costs. In recent years there has been a shift towards putting more focus on how they can direct and indirect impact on value parameters of an organisation.

Per Anker Jensen is a professor in Facilities Management at Denmark Technical University (DTU) and head of the externally funded Centre for Facilities Management – Realdania Research. He is currently the project manager on a joint EuroFM research project on The Added Value of FM, which started in January 2009. He is the author of many books and scientific publications.

One of his latest books is ‘Facilities Management and Corporate Real Estate Management as Value Drivers’ (2017), co-edited with Theo van der Voordt. (ISBN 978-1-138-90718-8)

Guest: Reini Beverdam-Knaven, Businesswoman, Medical Astrologer and former School Teacher – Bad Suderode, Germany.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

Reini Beverdam-Knaven is the guest of this episode of ‘The “E” of real estate’. She was for many years a schoolteacher; she became a businesswoman and a medical astrologer. Together with her husband Rob Knaven she owns the Training centre and Wellness hotel Felsengrund Alcyone in BAD SUDERODE, Germany.

In this podcast, we focus more on the holistic human aspect, the social environment.

• Is spirituality in business a must or a hype?
• Spirituality in general is the physics we haven’t understood fully yet. Self-actualization and workplace spirituality leads to a holistic work-life balance. “Business spirituality is a model in which realism and idealism have a business interaction. Successful companies have both corporate expertise and corporate spirituality”. –Prof. Dr Paul de Blot SJ
• How can humans function optimally in their outer environment and how their own inner environment is a key factor in that.
• A balanced and tuned learning environment (physical/digital/social) creates empowering learning and working space. It sparks curiosity in students.
• As above so below. As without so within. The macro cosmos mirrors the microcosmos. Not Newtonian law based on cause and effect, but the new insights in Quantum Physics and Epigenetics. Our experiences of the Inner and Outer environment are more based upon reflection and synchronicity. The outside mirrors the inside in us humans (subconscious unconscious self).
• A Multi-disciplinary approach. “Architects are trained to take all kinds of different needs and requirements and design structures that will accommodate them all (lift human spirit, sensible efficient plan and economically feasible).” John Portman, Architect/ developer/ investor.

Guest: Wietske Eveleens MSc, Work Designer & Work System Expert – Utrecht, The Netherlands

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

Guest of this episode of ‘The “E” of real estate’ is Wietske Eveleens MSc Industrial Design, CEO of Eveleens Workstyles & Eveleens DeWerkOntwerper. She shares her vision and insights about:

• The value of the difficult-to-measure human factor.
• The environment (physical, digital and social) is influencing how you think and feel. The human mind and body are not separate and distinct from their environment.
• How to assist individuals and organisations to adapt to 21e century working & learning competencies and skills. How can the environment support this?
• Techno Optimism versus Techno Stress.
• Merging of physical, digital and social environment, an interconnected and integrated system, to facilitate flexible working (place, time and device-independent).
• The growing importance of (lifelong) learning. Approaching learning as part of the daily work task.
• Upgrading work/study by developing ideal work systems (structure) and workstyles (behaviour).
• Becoming the architect of your own work and learning environment, to create an empowering environment to thrive in.
• Places and systems that work instead of workplaces and work systems. To contribute to the core business of education and research plus to the health and well-being of students and staff.

Guest: James Boekbinder, Expert in User Behaviour & Interaction Design – Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

Exploring the big picture of a learning environment as an integrated system of physical, digital and social environments. Breaking it down into small low-risk actionable steps for improvement.

An interview with James Boekbinder, an expert in User Behaviour & Interaction Design. He is an outspoken advocate for ‘the shape of a successful product is hiding inside human behaviour’. James advises organisations preparing for innovation of their product and service systems.

Besides being a self-employed consultant, he teaches about these subjects at a couple of universities for about 12 years now. Experiencing himself how it feels to work in a (sub)optimal learning environment. (http://www.boekbinder.com) He shares with us his professional insights.

As could be expected the main area of improvement is in the social domain of human behaviour. About ambitions, politics, willingness to change, leadership in balancing quality of education and financial constraints. James gives us an insider view behind the curtains of the daily reality at a university. He translates this into guiding design principles that can strengthen the learning environment.

Guest: Richard Helmus, Real Estate & Facility Manager at VGZ zorgverzekeraar – Arnhem, The Netherlands

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

This episode of The “E” of real estate (in Dutch) addresses the potential of an integral facilitated work environment to make an organisation and the employees thrive.

Richard Helmus, Real Estate & Facility Manager (per 01-09-2019 Expert/Product owner RE&FM) at Health Insurance organisation Cooperation VGZ (Arnhem, The Netherlands), shares insights and gives tips on how they use the work environment (Physical, Digital, Social) as a tool to be not only the healthiest (body, mind, heart) employer of the Netherlands but also a tool to support their core business.

Guest: Niels de Vries, Policy advisor for educational buildings, Course Trainer and Consultant –  Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

Host: René Stevens, CEO/Owner ATELIER V real estate + Founder/Host The ‘E’ of real estate podcast – Amersfoort, The Netherlands/ Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.

The purpose of this podcast is to create a positive impact by raising awareness and providing best practice examples about rethinking university campuses to maximize human potential. An exploration odyssey about REAL ESTATE and the REAL STATE of HUMANS.

The interaction between the state of the built environment (physical, digital, social) and of the health (body, mind, heart, spirit) of people using the built environment. I will talk with experts to explore new perspectives and their practical implementation on cutting-edge topics.

How can a campus inspire and motivate people? How can it support the educational process to an even higher degree? How can a university campus stay adaptive over time? I’m doing this for Facilities and Real Estate managers of university campuses. Who focus, besides functional and technical aspects also on the experiences of students and employees.

I will elaborate on how the learning environment can be used as a management tool. A tool to support achieving strategic goals and for the well-being of people. And first steps towards a realization that are practical and at low risk.

One of the main questions that will be addressed is: How to measure quality/performance of a campus in a SMART way? So that it can be used as a means for continuous adaptation to reach a sustainable FIT FOR PURPOSE.