'Buberian flirting'

What has flirting to do with personal development? A lot! During the EL CID - the Leiden introduction week - Rob, Walther and I gave flirting workshops to the new students at the Hogeschool. More than 150 students wanted to experience this and ...

Peace through dialogue

Peace through dialogue contribution Walther Burgering September 21, 2016, 16.00 pm Stadhuisplein, Leiden An experience. In March of this year, in collaboration with former bishop Van Luyn, I was allowed to present a book entitled “The way of dialogue. Building bridges between ...

Music (that) matters: October 11

Making music together that is about something… is a combination of creativity, musicality and art of living. Some people can easily combine this and describe in their texts life matters that are recognizable to everyone. About love, about death, about injustice ...

Jeannette Bakker introduces herself

  Since the summer of 2016, I have been able to enrich the LSE team as a humanist student counselor. In 2014 I graduated from the University of Humanistic Studies in Spiritual Guidance and Education. One day a week I am at the Hogeschool Leiden ...

Calm in the storm for concentration and balance

Last summer I was allowed on a trip to Poland. In Krakow, young people from all over the world came together for the World Youth Days. We left the Netherlands with 180 young people. Once in Krakow, there were more than one and a half million people from far and wide ...

About the art of keeping up with the times

A new season begins for college and university. Many first-year students start with a study: a phase of life in which you take a new step towards independence. Open to new knowledge, other friends and a different city. When I came from my ...