Fly Over The Grass

Fly Over the Grass aims to shed light on creative routes into a career in social impact. In each episode, Miranda talks to an inspiring individual working to solve social inequality to find out about the change they want to see in the world, what they do, and how they got there.

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Fly Over the Grass #006 Anneke van Woerden on the importance of combining fun, learning and purpose in your job

December 20, 2020 • Miranda • Season 1 • Episode 6

Anneke Van Woerden is a creative facilitator living and working in Amsterdam. After exploring a number of career routes from Musicology and academia she found fell into the world of creative facilitation. From this she started a business called Unfold which supports people and organisations to collaborate more effectively and designed a programme that supports newcomers in the Netherlands into creative jobs. Now Anneke continues to disrupt the world of education and work at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, where she supports people doing social impact work to connect with the outside world, and vice versa. In this episode we talk about how difficult it is to describe a job that aims to blur boundaries as well as some important lessons around how to JFDI (Just F******* Do It!)

Find more on her website annekevw.tilda.ws

Links to things we mention on the episode:
- Annekes first company - Unfold it medium.com/unfold-it
- The organisation that supports newcomers to the Netherlands into creative jobs - Makers Unite makersunite.eu
- Where Anneke currently spends most of her time - the Digital Society School at Amsterdam's University of Applied Sciences digitalsocietyschool.org

Music by Joe Bush