The helpful city of Den Bosch over the years
From “Bossche bollen” to “Bossche koek”, the city of Den Bosch is the home of many treats that will satiate your hunger for “Brabant” goodness. The capital city of [...]
Feel free to act
Societies across the world are facing many complex and interwoven challenges—poverty, inequality, environmental degradation, demographic change, discrimination, and violence—that threaten our efforts to enable people everywhere to live a [...]
“With great power comes great responsibility”
The Netherlands is a wealthy country, and while we can discuss how that wealth is distributed, we cannot deny that things are going well here. On a global [...]
A mirror
As a social innovator, when facilitating stakeholders through complex challenges, you might encounter conflicts on all kinds of levels: heated conflicts, or it might just be differences in perspectives [...]
From conflict to progression
The main theme of my previous blog was that to truly change systems, we should shift the relational conditions that hold a problem in its place, and improve the [...]
Shifting relational conditions
I believe that we “should never lose sight of what we believe could be.” This quote by renowned acting teacher William Esper (2008) has been a guiding principle to [...]
The end of the beginning..
Can you ever be truly finished? I believe not. For now, this is the final blog that I write while being a student at Performatory. Yet, I do not [...]
The underestimated power of social relationships for our well-being
I am not a psychologist who can help people with their state of mind, neither a virologist who can indicate when the virus will slowly lose its power of [...]
A personal insight into my thoughts
You do not know how it feels until you experience it yourself. In this case, I hoped that I would never get to know how it feels. Yet, sometimes [...]
Why the small things in life matter and how they ignite change
I believe the small moments in life, those unexpected encounters, create happiness and joy. To extend this thought, I also believe that those small moments are the ignitions for [...]
How might we…
We, as humans, are capable to transform, to change and to be flexible. Additionally, I believe that when we find ourselves in a crisis, this is even shown more [...]
The world needs you to evolve to add to the quality of life of all/ WHY NOT
Our society is in a continuous process of change, innovation, and shifts within its patterns and systems. Opportunities, threats, and other unforeseen activities occur within a second and this [...]
THE WAY I WANT TO GO
Now that I know better what my role can be in the depolarization process, it is time to empower the silent middle group. By listening and looking at underlying [...]
THE WAY WE CREATE NEW REALITIES
Now that I know better what my role can be in the depolarization process, it is time to empower the silent middle group. By listening and looking at underlying [...]
THE WAY WE CAN CHANGE SYSTEMS
In order to depolarize and create a new system, a new reality, I'm convinced that it is not necessary to fight the opposite poles, but rather to strengthen the [...]
THE WAY WE SEE OTHERS
I think it's time, for both the municipality and the inhabitants of the Emmasingelkwadrant, to create a new reality, a new system, form new beliefs and reflect on how [...]
THE WAY WE REFLECT
Do we stick to our own realities, our own systems, and our own beliefs? Or are we going to step outside of our bubble and reflect on ‘’the way [...]
THE WAY WE SEE THE WORLD
The Corona crisis is forcing society to take a long break and makes unprecedented interventions and changes necessary. One of the main silver linings from this crisis, is that [...]
Blog 7 | Thijmen | Creating a Living World
Noticeable was that during my research, work-field, education and students all agreed on the fact that the student in the end is responsible for connecting to the work-field in [...]
Blog 6 | Thijmen | Striving for Change
My previous two blogs were written together with Jasper Box. It was an interesting, meaningful and fun experience. Seeking for different perspectives opened up my point of view and [...]
Competition & complementarity | Thijmen & Jasper
Last blog we talked about the search to do good within society, and how measuring by impact, as opposed to financial benefit, will still create polarisation and competition within [...]
A dialogue about the Future | Thijmen & Jasper
Disclaimer: This blog is written co-creatively by Jasper Box and Thijmen van de Gevel. It is a combination of quotes of our dialogue and later on added written [...]
Blog 3 | Thijmen | Driven by Purpose
Back in 1791, the majority of society, even women and children worked in factories every day, make their hours to get paid a small share of the total profit [...]
Blog 2 | Thijmen | Co-education
For my graduation assignment I am working for Business Desk. Business desk is a part of the Academy for Leisure and is responsible for the connection between students, the [...]
Blog 1 | Thijmen | Revalue Education
Out of all 195 countries in the world, the Netherlands is ranked 9th place for best education according to the OECD (Auwera, 2015). Quite impressive for a small country [...]