About us

Artisa is co-founded and managed by Celeste Neelen. She works together with committed and skillful colleagues. We share a passion for a life long learning, writing, art, creating, sun and spiritual development. Our strength lies in our individual expertise and the added value of our cooperation.

Celeste Neelen graduated as work and organizational psychologist at Radboud University Nijmegen and modern dance teacher at Amsterdam School of the Arts. She has been running her own company, for many years, specializing in personal and spiritual development and  leadership.
She is co-founder of La Terra Saggia, director of ARTISA and partner of Quinx, a Belgian-Dutch consultancy company. She is an experienced coach of (silent) retreats. Bringing people into contact with their innate qualities and freedom and encouraging them to put their potential into action, is what she loves to do.
In the spare time that is left she works as a visual artist, creating paintings in oil and mixed media: colourful expressions of movement, light, and space.

Dr. Frank Leoné holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience. His writing experience includes fields as broad as Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Philosophy, and Law, as well as extensive experience writing for grants and advisory work. He co-founded AKKU trainingbureau, a training organization for and by students, and now heads Marbelous Minds, a company which is dedicated to make learning more fun and effective. He is assistant professor at RU Nijmegen in brain inspired educative games. He leads the integral writing week for PhD students at Artisa

Misja Goossens graduated as Master of Arts at the Utrecht University. She migrated to Berlin in 2007 to work in international, traveling projects where art was used as a tool for personal development and intercultural understanding and dialogue. In 2014 she became a mother and similarly followed a 3,5 years course for systemic work in family- and organizational context.
She loves to create space beyond judgement. Deeply knowing and feeling that the embracement of the whole you, also the unwelcome and ugly parts that we all have, paves the way for real change and re-connection with your inner source.
She uses elements of systemic work, impro-theatre, yoga, dance, breath work, silence and authentic talk, to take you on a journey for less masks and more you. She co-facilitates our time-out program.

dr. Heleen van Luijn studied Psychology of Culture and Religion and Philosophy at Radboud University in Nijmegen. She did her PhD on a study into an ambivalent
child wish of women. She has been working for more than 35 years as a researcher, teacher and manager at different Dutch universities and research institutes. She worked for Tilburg University, Free University Amsterdam (VU), the Royal Academy for Sciences (KNAW), the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) and the Roosevelt Academy. She was also a research fellow at the department of Social Medicine of Harvard University. During her career she supervised many students, researchers and PhDs. In 2012 she founded the Dutch Institute for Research and PhD Supervision. She is (co-)author of many articles and several books. At Artisa she will facilitate the PhD writing week.

Anja Hueber is co-founder of Quinx and co-founder of La Terra Saggia  She has been working for many years as a consultant on personal  and leadership development. In recent years she has been focussing more on fine-tuning her own programs in specific area’s such as the power of silence, deep personal and transpersonal work and her work on increasing women’s impact in the world. In the way she works, she is very sensitive towards creating a safe and supporting space where people can dive deeper into discovering  who they are without masks and beyond patterns. In order to live a life, more full, more meaningful.
At our new place , La Terra Saga she is facilitating  silent retreats.