A place where questions are more important than answers

I’m a facilitator at De Kwekerij – and no, I don’t mean I grow tomatoes. De Kwekerij is a place to bloom through meaningful encounters. And I’ve found something there that I’ve missed for a long time: a place where my philosophical, psychological, and sociological...

Conflict can be fruitful

Last Tuesday, a special edition of the Bloom Class took place in the Skybar of W70.Club, during Mental Health Week. Together with the participants, Abel and I explored the week’s theme, Bridging, based on the question: what if we disagree? Truly listening At a...

Kryptonite of the manosphere: the three social circles

Following Louis Theroux’s documentary Inside the Manosphere, there was a lot of buzz last month. Many young people are increasingly coming into contact with this harmful manosphere content. This is partly because the ‘third place’ is being lost....

Social media gets in the way of real connection

Maybe this is you: the one with hundreds of messages from friends in the group chat, lots of likes on TikTok, DMs on Instagram, and a Snap Streak with your best friends. It sounds like a social life, but is it really? According to the experts, things are actually...