Proces Alchemist

I have supervised parts of processes or the whole at very diverse conferences, meetings and meetings. That started as 7x evening chairman of the night of architecture in Friesland. Continued as a participating organizer of the Castle Borl meetings (from which the 'Art of Hosting' network arose) and the Chaosforum conferences (which, among other things, turned out to be the impetus for the Rhineland model).

My contributions varied from organizing a large World Café dialogue together with Bert van der Neut, playing the conference jester at a scientific conference to cheer up and keep participants sharp, activating day chairmanship for party in Almere, MC being together with others at StandUpInspiration and later StandUpStories.

I was also involved in more activist meetings about new money systems, around bank of the future and various unconferences and in 2010 at the Laboratory of the Future, which was eyeing 2022.

Clients ao: BIG Congress, Bio-mimicry congress, KM4dev congress.

Ritual Facilitator

I have accompanied opening and closing rituals in several places for several years, alone or together, such as for three festivals. The Open-Up festival (which I also co-founded), the Permanent Beta festival and the Happy Start Up Summer Camp (England). The first two are unfortunately, partly due to Corona, defunct, the last restart in 2022.

In a good opening ritual you immediately meet a lot of new people, in such a way that you already pick out some sensible and fun ones to find later. You become acquainted with the desired basic principles of the organization, and you choose with which focus you enter and/or exit the festival.

I could also mention warm ups with more than 200 starting students from the art college Minerva in Groningen.

In addition, I have several times at multi-day meetings, among others. guided small Nature Quests and even 1x a wedding ceremony and a funeral.

Community Specials

I have conducted many social experiments with roles in communities, networks and at festivals. For years I was first announcer and later the 'free role' (also read festival fool) at the Open Up festival. This means that I always looked for how to add value, with interventions, mediation behind the scenes and theatrical feedback to participants and festival organizers.

My background as a role-play facilitator since 1990, in which process, story and structure must be coordinated through guidance, has contributed a lot to that ability. It allows me to intuitively tune in to what is needed or can help, even letting go of everything for a while.

A very special moment was a festival with about 300 people, which threatened to become very boring. I came up with an impromptu war dance to the Haka (Maori war dance famous by the All Blacks rugby team) and suddenly all the men wanted to join in. The dance broke open the whole festival.

At other festivals I have added game elements, such as Switchball, family theater, meditation path, stall with invisible stuff and a restaurant for Mind and Soul.