Our Story

We did not build this from theory.
We built it from life.

Mushroom-Z-Hack was born from a glass door, a son who did not fit the script, and the day someone finally asked a different question.

Difference must not be fixed. Find the way to capitalise on it.

The Founders

Michiel van den Heever - Co-Founder & Lead Coach
I worked relentlessly to prove I could do what others said was impossible. I achieved it because I recognised I had no limits imposed on my thinking. The real awakening came when my son did not conform to traditional methods and the system said there was no place for him. I wanted to scream: why is there no place for different? The Mycelium Mind framework was born — not in a lecture hall, but underground, in the dark, through a life fully lived.
                                                                                               Narine van den Heever - Co-Founder & Artist 

Our values

Honesty above all

We say what is true, not what is comfortable. With clients, with each other, and about the science.

Different is not broken

Not a slogan. A lens. We apply it to everything — how we coach, how we design, how we speak.

Evidence-based

LTP, myelination, metacognition — the neuroscience is real. We do not coach from opinion alone.

One thread at a time

We do not rush the network. Real growth is slow, underground, and then suddenly everywhere.