• Fire, Water

• Kali

• Contemplative practices (meditation, including rituals)
• Futuring
• Pantheistic, non-anthropocentric processes
• Total experiences

• Design
• Research
• Framing
• Keeping overview (big picture)
• Summarizing
• Harvesting
• Multilingual hosting (4/5 languages)
• Public speaking
• Mentoring
• Writing
• Hands on: working with food and audiovisual media

• Concept and programme development
• Short & long processes (all aspects, different group sizes, hands-on and discussions, co-creation…)
• Transdisciplinary, transsectorial and intercultural design
• Experience and transmedia design
• Meditation
• Sectors: arts, science, engineering, policy, business, environment, medical, communities

• Cross-sectorial
• Cross-generational
• Cross-cultural

• Homogeneous unmotivated groups who take much for granted and give nothing (vampires)

• Transformational, long-term relationships and life-changing experiences (from one person to the whole world)

• Sound

• Commercial sector
• Patronage

• ‘Composing’
• Improvisation
• Tuning in and making the best of people
• Teaching

• Cross-sector bridging
• Broadcasting
• Presentation/performance
• Teaching/mentoring

Noise pollution

Make music matter

• Personal growth
• Healing
• Walking/nature
• Meditation
• Rituals
• Ecology
• New systems
• Holistic approaches
• Serendipity

• Facilitation/ hosting
• Coaching
• Project management
• Communication
• Social design
• Writing
• Humor

• Creative writing
• Hosting
• Curating
• P2P

• Arts
• Maker culture
• Transition
• Cross-sectoral = interesting

Water

Cerridwen

• Sustainability & transition/change
• Crafts & self-sufficiency
• Nature-based spirituality (animism)
• Things esoteric (sacred geometry, tarot, dreams, healing, …)
• Structuring knowledge
• Plants & trees, wild foraging
• Plant lore & symbolism, mythology
• Ancestorial history of Western Europe (Celts, Germanic culture) and ancient history in general
• Music
• Intuition & instinct
• Helping people to reconnect to the power/strength within
• Coaching

• Language & communication (finding words; translating complex matter into comprehensive words)
• Symbolical interpretation (the story behind people’s lives and experiences) & reading nature
• Helicopter view
• Connecting, inspiring & reassuring people
• Creative thinking
• The ability to put things into perspective and to make fun of yourself (zelfrelativering)
• Vulnerability (in one-to-one conversations)
• Making sustainable choices & looking for sustainable options

• Communication: writing short/to-the-point texts, blogging, facebook
• Druid rituals
• Writing/making a book, a calendar/holiday booklet (Nieuwsblad)
• Structuring information (artist database BAM/Kunstenpunt)
• Editing (correcting)

• Profit
• Pioneering groups
• Open-hearted, sensitive people who see the magic in small things

• Facilitating loud, over-critical people who cannot hear the heart speaking
• Unrealistic expectations and a heavy responsibility on my shoulders
• Cynical, destructive companies/people
• Disconnection and a feeling of abandonedness

• Working towards a society/community where everyone remembers their ‘connection’ (to nature, to the cosmos/the spirit, …) and we act from that connection
• Sharing and offering ideas and watch or help them grow
• A healed earth

• Interested in everything that grows (bacteria, kids, trees, …)
• Time-related thins
• Alternative methods

• Generating energy
• Cooking
• Surprise elements
• Opening people up
• Hands-on, bodily kind of things
• Assisting
• Supporting
• Hosting
• Photographical documentation
• Mentoring

• Dance
• Choreography
• Guiding and designing workshops
• Teaching
• Cooking
• Gardening
• Mentoring
• Hunting for loose ends

• Small steps with small groups
• Long-term relationships
• Activities that matter

Earth/fire

• Transition (processes) > micro>macro
• Bodywork/healing
• Spirituality
• Social entrepreneurship
• Peer learning
• Systemic (change

• Facilitating
• Empowering
• Listening > summarizing
• Connecting
• Cooking
• Humor

• Levuur/art of hosting: participatory processes
• Sociale innavtiefabriek: coaching entrepreneurs, designing workshops, facilitating peer learning
• Vooruit: ‘team’work, initiating chang process
• Personal growth: burn out, resigning
• Life changing courses: matrix, Joanna Macy, Theory U, bodywork

Superficially going through emotion

Deep impact

Air/Fire

Snake (metamorphosis, transformation, healing of others)

• (social) rituals
• Non-acknowledged loss
• Farewell
• Funerals/death + arts
• Soul midwife
• Change/transition
• Storytelling
• Spiritual path

• Imagination
• Designing
• Holding the space
• Writing
• Listening
• Hosting/connecting

• Curating/making programs
• Moderating
• Creating rituals
• Teaching
• Children/workshops

• Progressive people with green mind & heart looking for alternatives
• Education/arts
• Hospitals/ abortion centres > social sector

Burn-out

Small drops changing the form of the rock

People

Design

Innovation

Inspire people to Think differently Ignite action in teams to Work together to Create positive Impact and growth

Cross-sector, Cross-country, cross-professional and generational cultures Working in Europe, USA, Africa and Asia Certified Geek, including PhD, patents and innovations Versed in business language, including MBA Executive and Team Coaching Programme Design Teaching Computer Science, in Africa and Europe Teaching Leadership . Design . Innovation in business schools

Business, NGO and Cultural sectors Engineering, Science, Pharmaceutical, Art, Media

Make Ideas Happen The Innovation Consultancy

• Earth, fire

• Mountain bear

• Breathtaking landscapes
• Inspiring stories
• Alternating enthusiasm-driven frenzy and slow quietness
• Simple mind-shifting concepts and theories
• Fireside chats about life and related topics
• Making my heart beat through hiking or biking
• Organizations emancipating their members
• Challenging my mental models
• Growing and/or making stuff
• (Herbal) tea
• Saucisson & cheese

• Performing scientific experiments
• Reading scientific literature
• Getting inspired by nature, and helping other people do so
• Building up simple prototypes
• Fitting in many different contexts
• Bringing exo-insights to given contexts
• Working as a scientist with designers and artists

• (Action) Research
• Cross-discipline co-creation
• Boring Microsoft-Office-based tasks
• Facilitation
  • Designers-scientists collaboration
  • Science for artists
  • A little bit of futurology (GBN/2×2)
• All of the above

• Biology
• Biotechnology
• Bioengineering
• Citizen science & technology
• (Bio-)design
• (Bio-)art

• Violence bursts rooting in misunderstanding, mean stupidity and absence of curiosity
• Banality of evil
• Collapse
• War

• Thriving abundance and diversity
• Dynamic equilibrium
• Perfect matches
• Unexpected happy-ending non-linearities
• (More facilitation)