Bringing holiday cheer to those who care all year!

🎉 Celebrate the Season with Creativity and Connection!

Join us at Jolly Connections: Nannies & Au Pairs Christmas Celebration for a cozy, festive gathering filled with joy and creativity. Together, we’ll paint Christmas-themed tote bags—perfect for adding a touch of holiday spirit to your errands or gifting to someone special.

🎟️ Save your spot now and join us for this one-of-a-kind holiday gathering: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/jolly-connections-nannies-au-pairs-christmas-celebration-tickets-1086765648309?aff=oddtdtcreator

🌟 What to Expect:

🎨 Creative Holiday Fun
Unleash your creativity with a hands-on DIY project! Design your own festive tote bag while immersing yourself in the holiday spirit. It’s a wonderful way to create something unique and memorable with others who share your experiences.

🤝 Supportive Community & New Connections
Meet fellow nannies and au pairs, share stories, and exchange tips on navigating life in the Netherlands. Whether you’re new to the country or a seasoned expert, this is your chance to build friendships and find a supportive community.

💡 Insightful Conversations about Nannying in the Netherlands
Explore the unique challenges and rewards of working as a nanny in the Netherlands. From sharing valuable resources to offering advice, this event provides a space to learn, grow, and thrive in your role.

🍷 Drinks & Good Cheer
Drinks will be available for purchase at the bar, so grab your favorite holiday beverage and enjoy an evening filled with laughter, creativity, and connection. Let’s toast to a joyful holiday season together!

Meet Your Hosts: Hola Nanny

The Hola Nanny team is thrilled to bring the vibrant nanny and au pair community together for this festive event. With a deep understanding of the unique experiences of nannies in the Netherlands, they’re dedicated to offering resources, guidance, and a sense of belonging. From facilitating creative activities to leading insightful discussions, Hola Nanny ensures every attendee feels supported and inspired.

Let’s make this a celebration to remember—don’t miss out on the warmth, expertise, and holiday cheer!

🪩 Party

🏀 Active

🎨 Cultural

🍿 Chill

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From Heart to Canvas: Paint Your Inner World

Rediscover your creativity, embrace introspection, and paint your soul’s story. Join us for this transformative journey!

A Unique Blend of Introspection and Creative Expression
This workshop offers a safe and inspiring space to explore and release your emotions through art. Together, we’ll combine introspection with creative expression, guiding you from heartfelt reflection to vibrant creations on canvas.

Paint with Music: Transform Emotions into Art
Experience the magic of painting to music as you connect with your emotional state and let it flow onto the canvas. This unique approach bridges self-discovery with artistic expression, creating a deeply personal and freeing experience.

Supportive Atmosphere for Authentic Sharing
Join a supportive group where authenticity thrives. Share your thoughts and feelings openly, then use those insights to inspire your artwork. It’s a chance to connect with yourself and others in a meaningful way.

Why This Workshop is Special
- Combines self-discovery and painting for a holistic experience.
- Helps you connect with your inner emotions and release them creatively.
- Perfectly timed at the end of the year for reflection and renewal.
- Encourages (re)connection with your creative spirit in a warm, welcoming environment.

Meet Your Host: Marianne Pierré
Marianne Pierré is a talented French painter and workshop host based in Amsterdam. With a rich background in cinema, sound design, and applied art, Marianne masterfully combines various art forms to create immersive experiences.

She is deeply passionate about self-development, psychology, and spirituality, bringing a unique perspective to her workshops. Her intuitive and empathetic approach ensures a safe and nurturing space for participants to explore their emotions and creativity.

Soul Flow Painting Workshop

Join us for an interactive discussion with Judith Zoë Blijden, Senior Legal Advisor and Founder of The Digital Period. Discover how period-tracking apps—some of the most widely downloaded health tools—shape our relationships with ourselves, our health, and those we love.

📱 Why Do We Track Our Periods?

Period apps offer more than just tracking. Understanding why someone tracks their period reveals a lot about who they are, who they aspire to be, and how they spend their lives and seek change. These apps are often central to our relationships with ourselves and our closest loved ones.

Two years ago, following the overturning of Roe v Wade, Judith Zoë Blijden launched a public philosophy project to examine autonomy in our digital age. She will share her research and insights on the evolving role of period apps and their broader implications for personal agency in the digital landscape.

🔍 Why Attend?

This session is ideal for those passionate about:

• Empowering Women in Tech: Understand how women interact with digital health tools and explore ways to drive more inclusive tech solutions.

• Exploring AI’s Impact on Privacy and Autonomy: Gain insights into how AI influences the tools we use to manage our personal health. What can we learn from period apps, and what do they reveal about AI’s role in our lives?

• Improving Agency and Ethical Tech Practices: Learn how to enhance personal agency in relation to technology.

📅 Location: Equals, Den Haag

🕒 Time: 17:00-18:30

About the Speaker

Judith is a dedicated advocate for ethical tech and digital rights. Currently at Hooghiemstra & Partners, she focuses on the legal and ethical dimensions of technology, with a strong emphasis on human rights and democracy. Previously, as Senior Policy Officer for Digital Transition at the Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER), she evaluated the effects of AI on the economy and the future of work.

Judith founded The Digital Period, a public philosophy project exploring our relationship with technology. Her 2023 investigation into autonomy and privacy in period-tracking apps, recognized by the Landecker Democracy Fellowship, continues to raise public awareness through her podcast series.

*No refunds on tickets, all sales are final.
**All final prices include VAT.
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WAI NL Circle – Den Haag – December Edition

Join us for an inspiring series of three workshops designed to explore the dimensions of power—inner, interpersonal, and collective—and how to harness each to create meaningful and sustainable impact.

Quote: “Power is our capacity to mobilize resources to attend to needs.” – Miki Kashtan

Session 2: Interpersonal Power  Date: [Wednesday 11th December] | Time: [17:30] | Location: [Equals]

Facilitators: Marietta Benkhoff, Maria Grazia Testa and Sofia Mourato.

Delve into the dynamics of power in relationships. Explore how to move beyond “power over” to “power with,” fostering collaboration with an equal mindset. Respecting each other fully, we’ll uncover the potential and resources that both you and others bring to the table. This session emphasizes the importance of mutual respect and equal partnership in building powerful connections.

In these 3 workshops you will experience, learn, share and connect by:

Discover the IDG framework: Learn how to adopt tools developed by system thinkers, cognitive and social scientists, and psychologists from Harvard to MIT, integrating power dynamics into your professional life for sustainable impact.

Learn an integration decision making process: Learn a new way of working together – to resolve conflicts, communicate effectively and make decisions that work for everyone. Harness your power compassionately in line with your purpose using the nonviolent communication model principles.

Networking: Engage with a vibrant cohort of professionals committed to transforming self and society through their understanding and use of power.

IDG Hub The Best Journey Ever facilitators:

Sofia Mourato

Sofia Mourato, is The Communication Ecologist. Just like an ecologist cares for our natural ecosystems, her mission is to regenerate trust, hope and human connection in workplace ecosystems. She equips leaders with effective communication, decision making and conflict resolution skills grounded on the principles of Nonviolent Communication.

Marietta Benkhoff

Marietta Benkhoff is passionate about Learning and Development. She has a background in organizational psychology and has worked with change makers from across the globe. Currently she is leading a team focused on People Development, Change and Employee Engagement.

Maria Grazia Testa, The Best Journey Ever

Maria Grazia Testa is founder of The Best Journey Ever and one of the global coordinators of the Inner Development Goals. For 25 years she has led global organisations going through radical change, running operations in 6 continents, driving transitions for multinational corporates worldwide, as well as global programmes in public and civil society affecting ecology, people and economy.

Next to her professional, environmental and societal commitment, she is a Mindfulness and Contemplation practitioner since 25 years.

With her organization, The Best Journey Ever, she leads organisational Transitions and Transformations where Inner Development Goals (IDG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are central, stimulating change with wisdom in complex environments, while enabling healthy ecosystems that start from the individual to transform the collective.

About Inner Development Goals:

Individual development and culture change are necessary for societal evolution.

• The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) are considered the inner, human counterpart of the Sustainable Development Goals.

• They are a framework collecting the human capabilities and skills required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, elaborated by neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists and experts in adult learning over the course of the last years to face the unprecedented social and environmental crisis and the evident struggle humanity is facing trying to change mindsets, behaviours and systems that are no longer sustainable.

• With a resolution on the implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals, on June 23rd 2022 the European Parliament has recommended The Inner Development Goals as an important framework to achieve the SDGs, “to educate, inspire and empower people to be a positive force for change in society, thereby accelerating progress towards achieving the SDGs”.

The framework includes 5 dimensions, 23 skills and a toolkit of methodologies emerging from validated scientific research to train adults in the specific skills addressed.

IDG Hub The Best Journey Ever Presents: Interpersonal Power

Connect with fellow Equals members and the Equals team during community lunch!

We’ll take care of the food, the only thing you have to do is sign up (so we know how much food we need) and show up. 🙂 Find the password on the community platform and RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/community-lunch-tickets-830094704607?aff=oddtdtcreator

The community lunch takes place in the lounge on the first floor of the Clubhouse.

Community Lunch

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Are you successful in your job but feel lost on whether it’s the right path to continue down?

Have you had an exciting idea or two but just didn’t go off on your own?

Do you like the idea of working for yourself but don’t see yourself as the entrepreneur-type?

Curious about that freelance life but think ‘it’s too unstable!!!’ ?

Can’t imagine putting your heart out there starting a side business and, ugh, failing?

If so, then this night will inspire you with real stories and perspectives from different kinds of entrepreneurs. Dip your toe into entrepreneur to hear what it’s like.

In one energizing night, we will:

- Demystify & reframe entrepreneurship.
- Show the various paths different kinds of entrepreneurs went on & why.
- Share wisdom from those who are doing it now.

The storyteller set up will help you explore entrepreneurship with curiosity & possibility. It’ll help you get clarity on whether entrepreneurship is something for you – be it now or later. If it’s not, then that’s also clarity ;).

Our featured storytellers are different kinds of entrepreneurs whose background was in the creative and business worlds.

Michelle (host): Took the leap to merge her 9-5 strategy job & coaching on the side into a full time business.

Brecht: Part-time consultant with a family-owned coffee roastery & a mental health music business.

Tsnatee: Musical artist bringing stage presence to her personal branding business to help others shine bright.

Megan: Launched a business to transition from fashion to interior design & emerged as a Textile Artist.

If you’re someone who’s already in the business and creative world (halfway to entrepreneurship, hello!!) but feeling a bit lost on what you really want and working for yourself is a curious, enticing thought, then come join us!

Bonus: we’ll be celebrating the host’s 1-year entrepreneur-versary!!

Come surround yourself by others who are also entrepre-curious, compelled to shake up their work, how they work, and/or its role in their lives some way or another. Guests who will be encouraged to ask questions and interact. Bring a pen and notebook! There will be time to chat with folks too!

Host:

Michelle Arrazcaeta (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marrazcaeta/ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marrazcaeta/")

 is a creative entrepreneur, award winning strategist (ex-W+K, Polaroid) and worklife coach for conscious creative business folks. She loves facilitating experiences and public speaking, even at weddings! Her search for aligned, energizing work led her to start Super Good Society, a transformation studio that fuses creative strategies and coaching skills so professionals lead meaningful change like the badasses they are without overwhelming stress.

Demystifying Entrepreneurship: A conversation with those doing it

Have you ever been labeled as “too sensitive” or “too emotional”? Do you often feel overwhelmed by the demands of everyday life? You’re not alone. In our hyper-productive society, many sensitive women struggle with overstimulation and stress, leading to burnout—20% of women experience this, with 57% identifying as Highly Sensitive People (HSPs).

As an HSP and Wellbeing Facilitator—and founder of the Sensing Circle— Karolina is here to support you with practical tools to nourish your wellbeing by helping you reconnect with your unique qualities. Her Embodied-Creative Method blends accessible techniques inspired by somatics, trauma-informed yoga, and visual expression, honed over ten years of dedicated practice.

What to Expect:

🧘🏽‍♀️ Breathing Techniques and Body Awareness Practices: Engage in soothing exercises that calm your nervous system and promote mental clarity.
🎨 Creative Practices: Learn how to express your emotions in a healthy way and tap into your inner inspiration, bringing a renewed sense of vitality to your life.
🫶🏽 Community Building: Connect with like-minded women who share your experiences, creating a supportive network that uplifts and empowers you.

Why Attend:

1. Tailored for Sensitive Souls: This workshop is specifically designed for women who identify as highly sensitive, ensuring you feel understood and supported in a nurturing environment.

2. Holistic Approach: Experience a unique blend of movement, creativity, and community that addresses both emotional and physical well-being, offering a comprehensive healing journey.

3. Empowered Connection: Build lasting relationships with fellow sensitive women, creating a space where you can share experiences, insights, and encouragement—fostering a sense of belonging and collective growth.

About the Speaker

Karolina Wargin (MA, MEd) is a Wellbeing Facilitator and founder of the Sensing Circle. With over a decade of experience in yoga practice and teaching, paired with a strong background in the arts and education, Karolina has spent the last five years organizing workshops, courses, and educational programs for universities, cultural institutions, NGOs, and individuals.

Through the Sensing Circle, Karolina seeks to empower highly sensitive women, helping them harness their unique qualities to enhance their overall well-being. Recognizing that many silently struggle with stress and burnout, she fosters a supportive environment where women can connect and thrive together.

From Overwhelmed to Inspired: Embrace Your Sensitivity

On Friday, December 6th head to Equals Clubhouse in Amsterdam for our final meet-up of the year. Connect with fellow entrepreneur parents, discuss strategies for balancing work and family, and enjoy a supportive community as we close out the year together.”

Who is this for?
Entrepreneurs, freelancers, ZZPer who are growing their businesses alongside their busy lives as parents and parents to be! Open to parents of all genders who are raising babies of all ages (from embryo to teenagers).

What does this session offer?
A small group setting in a warm and inviting environment
An opportunity to meet other entrepreneur parents
A chance to jam and swap resources around the unique challenges that come with managing family life as a founder or ZZP’er, from the blurry boundaries between life and work to the importance (and seeming impossibility) of rest.

What to bring? Yoursel and any challenges you are currently facing that you want to get feedback and support from the group on

Business & Babies – December

If you’re a solopreneur, founder, or a small business owner on a brand-creation journey and want to build a credible, impactful brand that sells, this is just what you might need. Whether it’s about brand foundations, finding your voice, defining your visual identity or developing marketing strategies for your launch, this 1-1 will give you professional feedback and guidance on where you’re at and/or what should come next.

Manon, Founder and Creative Director of the branding agency Archipelæ will be available to answer your burning questions, provide valuable insights, and help you define what will make your brand stronger. So don’t miss out on this chance to get professional feedback on your brand. Mark your calendars and prepare to take your business game to the next level with the power of branding!

What to Expect:
1-1 private chat: You’ll get 20 min just for yourself to get feedback or advice and benefit from the expert guidance you seek.

How to Prepare:
To maximize your session, come prepared with specific questions or challenges you’re facing. Grab this unique opportunity to gain professional insights, refine your strategies, and empower your business growth.

About Manon Pelletier:
Manon is a Creative Director, Hybrid Designer and Brand Strategist born and raised in different regions of the globe from the age of 5. She’s explored design and brand strategy in all shapes and forms, from positioning to brand identity, spatial and digital design, and led global campaigns for international corporations online and offline.

After working along some of the most creative design and advertising agencies in London, Hong Kong and Amsterdam, she founded Archipelæ – an innovative branding agency supporting impact-driven start-ups and corporations in making the most of creative strategy and design.

Branding Office Hours

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This is for the women who are ready to make networking work for them.

Often we don’t dare to ask for what we want or need, so during this event we make it mandatory. 😉

Why this event is for you:

- This is your opportunity to share your ask – a help request – with a new and diverse audience. You may just find the person who can help you out, or who knows the perfect person to do that.
- You will expand your network as you will actually meet all the attendees, instead of just a few.
- You may be able to help another woman out with your own expertise or network. And we rise by lifting others!

The concept of this event

We will start with food & drinks and connecting with other attendees while everyone gets in. It’s important to not do this on an empty stomach. 😉 After half an hour we’ll get everyone together and start with an introduction and continue with everyone’s pitches.

In a 1,5 minute pitch you will introduce yourself (who are you, what do you do) and end with phrasing your ask. It should be a question that people can possibly help you with as this event really is about helping and connecting (not selling your service/product to possible clients amongst the attendees).

Everyone will receive a document with a list of all the attendees’ names and space to take notes during the pitches. After the pitches it’s time to connect and network. By now you know who you may be able to help and who’s interesting to connect further with!

More info & get your ticket via this link: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-networking-breakfast-823717540337?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Members of Equals have free access to the event with their promocode (go to tickets and click on “promocode”).

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We strive for equality and more diversity in the workforce. We are committed to supporting women* in the growth and development of their careers.

By working together, and by celebrating and championing our members and partners, we bring out the best in everybody.

*Our space is inclusive of all women, non-binary, agender and gender non-conforming people, and others who identify with our mission. Self-definition is at the sole discretion of that individual. If you feel you could benefit from a space meant for people who care about our mission, you are welcome.

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Jolly Connections: Nannies & Au Pairs Christmas Celebration

Soul Flow Painting Workshop

WAI NL Circle – Den Haag – December Edition

IDG Hub The Best Journey Ever Presents: Interpersonal Power

Community Lunch

Demystifying Entrepreneurship: A conversation with those doing it

From Overwhelmed to Inspired: Embrace Your Sensitivity

Business & Babies – December

Branding Office Hours

Networking Brunch

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Jolly Connections: Nannies & Au Pairs Christmas Celebration

Soul Flow Painting Workshop

WAI NL Circle – Den Haag – December Edition

IDG Hub The Best Journey Ever Presents: Interpersonal Power

Community Lunch

Demystifying Entrepreneurship: A conversation with those doing it

From Overwhelmed to Inspired: Embrace Your Sensitivity

Business & Babies – December

Branding Office Hours

Networking Brunch

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