On May 26, 2016, Dana-Maria won with the idea ”Fear or Love?!” the Samsung VR Challenge. If you are free from fears that block the way to a successful life, then you are able to achieve your goals and dreams. The idea has been named by Samsung The Best Virtual Reality Idea of the Netherlands!

 

From the age of 18 to the age of 36, Dana-Maria's life has mainly taken place outside and in nature. She has sailed worldwide on large traditional sailing ships as a sailor sailing trips to the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea and Spitsberen the North Pole, but also as a skipper in the Netherlands on the canal cruise in Amsterdam and on a two-masted clipper on the mudflats and the IJsselmeer. In addition, she was often a ski instructor in Austria every other winter.

 

Dana-Maria Faneker is a spiritual person and believes social contact and spending time in nature is essential for good health. By spiritual she means that she started yoga and meditation at a young age. That she has worked with shamans in nature. Visited several special places, where she participated in rituals: During midsummer night with the druids at Stonehenge, Selfica healing and meditation in Damanhur, Vipassana retreat Dhamma Pajjota.

 

In 2006 she did a self-development seminar in London and there she felt for the first time that she was really the captain of her life. That was the start of her coaching career. In 2010 Dana-Maria first started as a coach/trainer at Greenpeace and since 2013 she has her own coaching practice. She wanted to make people captain of their lives, and because new positive behavior is often difficult to learn, she was always looking for an ever better way to help people with this. For example, in 2015 she started working with Virtual Reality as the first coach in the Netherlands, there were no VR Apps for coaching at that time, which is why she had to develop her own VR Apps herself. In 2016 Dana-Maria won the prize for the best VR idea in the Netherlands, ”the Samsung VR Challenge”. After that she started to focus more and more on stress management through VR and other new technologies such as XR and biofeedback. 

 

In a short time Dana-Maria has taught herself and with the help of many others a lot about new technology. This is how the CaptainVR training institute was created. In addition to giving workshops, training and education to coaches, trainers, innovation managers and psychologists, she also ensured effective implementation at various organizations around new technology. To make the adoption of new technology as effective, fun and accessible as possible.

 

CaptainVR strives to make People & Organizations Future proof! We encourage people and organizations to take action to work with new technology and help them manage the people of tomorrow.