Perspectivity in collaboration with EMMA designed and facilitated the first citizens’ council in the city of Maastricht.
Netherlands
The majority of people in our collective and community are based in the Netherlands. We love to help organisations, institutes and communities in our own country navigate complexity. Examples of our work in the Netherlands can be found below. contact us
Exploring Flavors and Dimensions: A Creative Journey through Writeshops in the Netherlands
Imagine tasting through writing? How might that feel and be like? Sara and Nohad invited participants for a mini-writeshop to explore the dimensions of one’s life through flavors.
Collecting perspectives in dialogue
How Deep Democracy can help remove dividing lines between roles and functions to get to the in-depth discussions about underlying beliefs and dilemmas.
Reading and Writing Foundation harvests effects
The Reading and Writing Foundation wants to better understand how its support to municipalities contributes to better policy and implementation. So that people with low literacy can be helped even better. The foundation already reports annually on the activities carried out but want to gain more insight into what all those efforts achieve. Using Outcome Harvesting as a methodology.
Appreciative Inquiry ‘Summit’ for collective action around SDG 7
The past July, some 30 people representing 15 organisations convened for 2 days in The Hague as front-runners in the NL Energy Compact. The summit was co-hosted and facilitated by MVO Nederland and Perspectivity’s Han Rakels. While their stakes were very diverse,...
Book tip: Now it’s up to us, call for real democracy
Book tip by Petra de Boer: It is up to citizens to solve the greatest challenges of our time. That is the appeal of Eva Rovers to the Netherlands with her booklet 'Now it's up to us, call for real democracy'. Booklet? Yes, it is literally a small handy little book....
Putting Egypt on the IT world map
A participatory online roundtable to shape together the future of the Egyptian IT Outsourcing workforce.
Maastricht city dialogue forecast of a new democracy?
How do we live, learn, work and enjoy together in Maastricht 2040?
The Municipality of Maastricht had asked us to facilitate a broad city dialogue about the future of Maastricht. Before the summer, many wishes had already been collected from residents and other stakeholders. Now it was time to delve deeper into the most important themes and to jointly investigate dilemmas, opportunities and potential solutions.
Bibi van Ginkel
Meet Bibi our newest co-worker. She is working with us at our Nutshuis office.
Deep Democracy (Level 1)
Facilitate a dialogue and uncover the wisdom of the group.
Deep Democracy is a practical facilitation method to start dialogue and discussion where we actively search for the wisdom of the minority.
We are particularly qualified in working with the following themes and methods