I greatly enjoy facilitating workshops because they allow for participatory, collaborative and creative ways to engage with a topic. My interdisciplinary background at the intersection of art, business and sustainability (PhD in climate-related art, Master of Science in Global Business & Sustainability, and my art-science business) enables me to design workshops that are meaningful and impactful. With over five years of experience, I have facilitated numerous workshops for educational, cultural, community and corporate organizations, including Accelerating Circular Economy Zuid-Holland and Rotterdam School of Management. These workshops invite participants to engage in creative exercises without requiring prior experience in art-making, helping them to gain clarity and generate new ideas while contributing to team-building. Participants of my workshops range from community members, municipal representatives, businesses, children, MBAs, Bachelor and Master students to researchers, PhDs, artists and activists. Each workshop results in a tangible creative output that can be engaged with, shared with others and built upon. Beyond this, the process of making and engaging with a topic in new creative ways is equally valuable as it enables sensemaking. I give two kinds of workshops: (1) creative storytelling workshops addressing circular economy, climate change and sustainability more broadly (in educational, cultural, community and corporate organizations) and (2) research comic workshops for science communication (for researchers). Additionally, I am receiving the official Lego Serious Play workshop facilitator certification soon.

Contact me if you would like me to give a creative workshop addressing sustainability in your community or organisation or a research comic workshop at your conference, university or research day. Below this contact field you can find more information about my workshops.

(1) Creative Storytelling Workshops about Sustainability

I facilitate creative workshops addressing circular economy, climate change and sustainability more broadly by means of creative activities such as collage-making, painting and sketching. Participants do not need any artistic skills to participate in these workshops as I offer examples, templates and tips to guide them.

Participants of my workshops include:

• Researchers
• Children
• MBAs, Bachelor & Master students
• Community members
• Businesses
• Artists
• Activists

The themes that are addressed in the workshops include:

• Imagining circular neighbourhoods
• Communicating about an organisation’s (climate) impacts
• Visualising hope in times of crises
• Stakeholder engagement in times of climate challenges

Among the workshop goals are:

• Receiving clarity about a specific theme
• Engaging in a creative, embodied activity
• Contributing to team-building
• Making a tangible visual output that can be engaged with and shared with others

The workshop can also be tailored to a specific goal, theme or audience. Contact me to explore the possibilities.

Examples of my storytelling workshops:

• “Project Fearless” an after-school program in Amsterdam: I was guest coach during the class theme “Futurist Designers” (visual art), for kids aged 9-12 years (April 2026)
• “RSM Transforming Business Conference” organised by Rotterdam School of Management: I gave a participatory art workshop (vision board collage-making) about sustainability communication, for MBA students, alumni and UN Global Compact members during the Deep Dive session “Climate and Nature” (January 2026)
• “National Circular Economy Week“: I gave a participatory art workshop (working with creative circular economy visualizations) about imagining circular neighbourhoods, for residents and students during National Circular Economy Week at Iedereen aan Boord (March 2025)
• “Communicating Climate Hope: Countering Eco-anxiety and Climate Doomism in Research and Practice” conference organised by Tilburg University and University of British Columbia: I gave a participatory art workshop guiding conference participants (researchers, artists, activists) through the creation of art that addresses their research or practice on climate change and hope (August 2024)
• “Erasmus Sustainability Days 2023“: I gave a participatory art workshop addressing sustainability topics, to university students
• Circular Economy events of Accelerating Circular Economy Zuid-Holland (ACCEZ) and Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab (RASL): I was art workshop facilitator of 3 workshops between 2021 and 2022 for Binckhorst (The Hague) residents & researchers regarding imagination their neighbourhood in connection to circular economy. Read here more about it
• Event of ACCEZ at the Stedelijke Transformatie conference in The Hague: I was art workshop facilitator guiding researchers through creating artworks addressing transformations of the area (June 2022)