An initiative to share and to support others

The need for all stakeholders in a city to find each other and to learn to have peaceful and purposeful conversations is growing. This free initiative is meant to inspire and support people – everywhere in the world – who work in or for a city, organisation, neighbourhood or community.

My purpose for this initiative

My job is to host lifemaps projects to explore, discover and create, with groups of four, while going deep into what it means to be human in today’s world. While I know the potential benefits of the Voices in the city working together like bees in a hive scenario, I don’t  work for cities or with communities. So, instead, I want to support everyone, who does this work, so they (you) can get the benefits.

What do you get

• A free introductory call.
• Participation in a free project to get acquainted with the scenario Voices in the city working together like bees in a hive as I designed it.
• Designing your own scenario and mapping process and getting feedback of the group.
• Finding your own group of four. The (existing) materials are sent to you for free. To test and validate, what you can do with it.
• In case you want to continu, it is possible to get the source materials, so you can adapt them to your own requirements. It’s free.

How this works

• You connect with me, Ellen van Dongen by writing me a message with a short introduction of yourself, your work and motivation.
• If your work is aligned with my purpose, I invite your for a Zoom call to talk about what you could do.
• An introductory call with our group of four, to meet the other three participants. When we agree, we shake hands (virtually) to go ahead with the free project for this group.
• Free support in two 1,5 hour online Zoom group sessions.
• When you would like continue and find your own group of four, the materials are sent to you for free and you get free support, individually, in two 1,5 hour online Zoom sessions.
• My request for you is: to, afterwards, write a project reference text about your project, your city/ community / .. and country, and provide me with an email address (for my own reference, only).