"This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies.
- Yuval Noah Harari
How do you become who you are?
Career Development and Guidance (LOB) In FutureLab, an LOB program for secondary education, it's all about this question. Because when you become who you are, you usually become happy, doing things that suit you. Therefore, this LOB question at school should...
HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS TO YOU
How to have a good conversation? In my previous blog, I wrote about the importance of being seen, heard and appreciated. That is important for everyone, but especially for young people, who on their way to adulthood are looking for themselves. To be seen, heard and...
Being seen, heard and appreciated
In my adolescence, my mother repeatedly said to me "You have a good brain, you have to figure it out yourself". My older brother had difficulty learning. So she was with him every day, supervising his homework,...
How do we help young people in this corona period?
As a result of corona, we are facing major economic and social changes. Small and large companies are falling down, workers are losing their jobs, we have to make do with less. A question that especially now that we are in the lock-down is important to discuss with each other....
Connecting school subjects with career orientation
Last week I had a fun and fascinating conversation with Brigitte Meijer, dean at Beatrix College in Tilburg. It was about FutureLab, an LOB program (career orientation and guidance) and why schools that are enthusiastic about this new program are having such a hard time...
How do you keep it cosy as a family in quarantine?
How do you keep it cosy as a family in quarantine? A burning question for many families. Yesterday evening I attended an interesting webinar by Breekjaar on this theme, given by Anke van Dondergoed and Wessel te Winkel. They highlighted three important elements...
Creative entrepreneurs during the corona crisis
Being entrepreneurial is an important 21st century competence. People with an entrepreneurial attitude know how to make a virtue of necessity and thus create new opportunities. The corona crisis brought many SMEs to a standstill. ....