On February 8 2012 we will conduct a short Extra-Ordinary General Meeting (EGM). At the EGM we will settle the Financial report of 2010 and the budget for 2012.

To register for this event by clicking here (this will lead you to the entry on the event with Kyrin Hall and Sarah Fraser this evening, February 8 2012 – speaker starts at 20h00).

Agenda:

1.     Opening of the Extra-Ordinary General Meeting

2.      Approval of Agenda

3.      Minutes of Annual General Meeting June 28 2011

4.      Finance 2010 and 2012

5.    Other Business

6.     Questions and Closing of the Extra-Ordinary General Meeting

Explanatory Notes on the Agenda will soon follow.

The event will take place at the Renaissance Hotel in Amsterdam, Kattengat 1.

PROGRAM FOR THIS EVENT, February 8 2012

19h00 Networking
19h40 Extra-Ordinary General Meeting
20h00 Guest Speakers: Kyrin Hall and Sarah Fraser “Balancing energy boost to performance”

The European Professional Women’s Network and Connecting Women are organising the next:
‘EPWN/CW Hague Xmas Dinner’
Tuesday 20 December 2011, 19:00-22:00
Van der Valk Pier Scheveningen
2586 JK Den Haag

Dear ladies,
In order to celebrate the festive season, we’ll be doing something different this month:– instead of a Borrel, we are organising an EPWN/CW Hague Xmas Dinner!

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to this EPWN/CW Hague Xmas Dinner, which shall take place on Tuesday 20 December 2011, from 19:00-22:00 at Van der Valk Pier Scheveningen!

This Xmas Dinner also provides a great opportunity for meeting other women, networking and exchanging views about work/life in The Netherlands. And remember that everybody is welcome, membership is not required, nor is celebrating Xmas required.

For this Dinner we have managed to secure a special rate of €45,– per person, which includes a welcome drink, a 3-course dinner and unlimited drink between 19:00-22:00.
Registration
Please make sure you register your attendance (either as a member or as a guest) above. Alternatively, you can send an email to Erika at erika@bothassistanceandsupport.nl. Please also don’t forget to de-register if you are not able to make it after all!

We need to confirm the number of attendees with the restaurant 24 hours in advance. When pre-registered people do not show up, this puts us in a difficult position, as the restaurant has prepared food for more people.
We hope many of you will join us for our EPWN/CW Hague Xmas Dinner and we are looking forward to seeing you all on the 20th!

Warm regards,
Karin Bosscher, Erika Both & Anna Farrenkopf
European Professional Women’s Network / Connecting Women

EPWN members are professional women, many with demanding careers and busy private lives.

Finding the right work-life balance and performing at one’s best with ease requires a good understanding of how to manage energy levels.

By building awareness of energy boosts and energy drains, participants are able to identify simple steps to balance their energy.

This workshop takes a mind-body approach and combines coaching exercises and nutritional advice to give participants tips and techniques for boosting their energy levels.

Sarah Fraser founded Happiness Express to coach people towards a happier, more fulfilling life.

A fully-qualified Personal Performance Coach and NLP Master Practitioner, Sarah works with people on topics ranging from career change and confidence to work-life balance and stress management.

She assists organisations in improving the employability of their staff, increasing motivation, boosting performance and reducing stress-related absenteeism.

By removing perceived barriers and unlocking individual potential, she gets people from “I wish I was” to “I am.”

Kyrin Hall, PhD, is a licensed Health Consultant based in London and the Netherlands whose clients include corporations, celebrities, professional athletes and private individuals.

She uses nutrition and yoga therapy to assist individuals in improving their health through optimal lifestyle and dietary choices.

With eight years in the health & wellness industry, Kyrin has developed training modalities for boosting energy, resilience and performance.

Her training programmes can be seen on SKY Television, where she is a regular host, as well on 99.4 FM Radio in Amsterdam.

EPWN notes

• Participants are welcome to network from 19:00 to 20:00. The program begins at 20:00.
• Registration and Guest Policy: Registration is required for members and guests (€ 20). Attendance fee includes snacks and drinks. Guests are allowed to attend two EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam functions per year. Please contact Jacinta Noonan, our VP Membership at membership@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net.
• In order to keep our administrative processes manageable we unfortunately cannot refund your registration fee should you need to cancel your attendance.
• Members are kindly asked to deregister in time if you are not able to attend because of ordering catering for the event.

  

  

  
  

Simone Bokma is the first female Harley-Davidson Dealer and Owner in the Netherlands and a real entrepreneur.  She has a strong focus on reaching out to women and increasing the number of women riders on Harley-Davidson motorcycles.  She has just opened the only authorized H-D shop of Amsterdam and has a successful, innovative marketing approach.

Simone has taken the initiative to open a new store of luxury goods in these economic challenging times. She sees the opportunity in marketing and selling a luxury product to the diverse population of the region Amsterdam.  Harley is more than a motorcycle, it’s a lifestyle and she can demonstrate how her new, innovative and service minded approach will lead her to success.

Simone Bokma (1963) is married and has 2 children. After her graduation, she spent some time on Curacao, where she became a certified diving instructor.  In the 80s, she worked as sales representative for IBM and Veenman office supplies. In 1993 she became a a fully trained Voluntee’ Commander and teacher at the Beusichem Fire Department. She enjoyed the teaching part so much that she started her own Kerswerf Training and Teaching agency.  When she turned 40, she got her motorcycle driver’s license and bought het first Harley.  She became an active rider and arranged the female rider activities for the Amersfoort Harley-Davidson Chapter.

Fascinated by Landrover, she joined the ladies’ team in 2008 in the Classic Rally Heroes Legend Paris-Dakar and copied that in 2009 on a motorcycle in the “Sahara Experience.”

In 2010 she both launched the magazine WOW (Women on Wheels) and was elected “Motor Woman of the Year”, which enabled her to become an embassador for female riders.

In August of 2011, Simone opened the first woman owned H-D authorized dealership in the Netherlands.

EPWN notes

• Participants are welcome to network from 19:00 to 20:00. The program begins at 20:00.
• Registration and Guest Policy: Registration is required for members and guests (€ 20). Attendance fee includes snacks and drinks. Guests are allowed to attend two EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam functions per year. Please contact Jacinta Noonan, our VP Membership at membership@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net.
• In order to keep our administrative processes manageable we unfortunately cannot refund your registration fee should you need to cancel your attendance.
• Members are kindly asked to deregister in time if you are not able to attend because of ordering catering for the event.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we will have Facebook’s International Business Manager Streisan Chapman joining us from London to share what’s going on in Facebook and how you can utilize it to your advantage.

Details to follow.

Participants are welcome to network from 19:00 to 20:00. The program begins at 20:00.

·         Registration and Guest Policy: Registration is required for members and guests (€ 20). Attendance fee includes snacks and drinks. Guests are allowed to attend two EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam functions per year. Please contact Jacinta Noonan, our VP Membership at membership@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net.

·         In order to keep our administrative processes manageable we unfortunately cannot refund your registration fee should you need to cancel your attendance.

·         Members are kindly asked to deregister in time if you are not able to attend because of ordering catering for the event.

The European Professional Women’s Network and Connecting Women are organising the next:

‘EPWN/CW Hague Borrel’
Tuesday 15 November 2011, 19:00-22:00
at ‘De Zoute Zoen’ – back in the Scheveningen Harbour

Dear ladies,
We are looking forward to welcoming you to our next event on Tuesday 15 November 2011 from 19:00-22:00 and we have decided to return to the Scheveningen Harbour. We are therefore very excited that our next EPWN/CW Hague Borrel will take place at the stylish restaurant De Zoute Zoen!

Yet another great opportunity for meeting other women, networking and exchanging views about work/life in The Netherlands. And remember that everybody is welcome, membership is not required. As always, we will have a table at our disposal for your business cards in order to promote your own business.

De Zoute Zoen, situated in the 2nd harbour in Scheveningen, offers fish oriented cuisine, in
a rustic, classical and warm ambiance, with a wonderful view of the harbour. The restaurant offers a spacious, bright but cosy dining room with adjacent terrace. It is a great location for lunch or dinner, and also available for private dining, wine tastings or business meetings.

And … De Zoute Zoen also honours the same offer we had with Braque – we will get 3 (!!) drinks for our pre-paid €12,50 plus canapes!
Cost and registration
The cost of the Borrel is €12,50 per person. This will entitle you to three drinks plus nibbles and tapas. You are asked to pay this upon arrival, for which you will receive three restaurant coins to redeem your drinks at the bar. Additional drinks are at your own cost – the bar will close at 22:00.

Please make sure you register your attendance (either as a member or as a guest) via the EPWN website http://europeanpwn-amsterdam.net/events/borrel-in-the-hague-november-15. Alternatively, you can send an email to Karin Bosscher at karin@isabellalinea.nl. As Erika will be away for a few days, please contact Karin for a speedier reply. For more information on the event, see www.connectingwomen.nl.

Please also don’t forget to de-register if you are not able to make it after all!
We need to confirm the number of attendees with the restaurant 24 hours in advance. When pre-registered people do not show up, this puts us in a difficult position, as the restaurant has prepared food for more people.

Directions to the venue
This restaurant, De Zoute Zoen is located in the Scheveningen Harbour, nextdoor to restaurant De Dagvisser. The address is Schokkerweg 37, Den Haag. For more details about the venue, go to their website http://www.dezoutezoen.nl/.

There is plenty of free parking. If you are travelling by public transport, take tram #17 from Den Haag Centraal Station (richting Statenkwartier) and get off at the stop called Van Boetzelaerlaan. Or take tram #11 to the Duinstraat stop.

We are looking forward to seeing you all and to enjoying yet another very exciting networking evening!

Warm regards,

Anna Farrenkopf, Karin Bosscher & Erika Both
European Professional Women’s Network / Connecting Women

Attendees of this presentation will get a glimpse of what master speakers know about the psychology of learning, how to engage and keep your audience and how to rock the house for any audience. Even if you are an experienced speaker, you will learn something new about speaking and audience engagement.

Barbara Rogoski is a professional speaker, published author, successful entrepreneur and visionary. Her company, Successful Speaker Now, empowers businesswomen to speak with passion, purpose and impact. As an ordained interfaith minister and successful businesswoman, Barbara combines her business sense, passion for life and spiritual foundation to support and encourage people, especially women, to reach for their dreams.

Networking to begin at 19.00 with a lovely champagne toast to celebrate the holidays. 

Barbara Rogoski will begin speaking at 20.00.

Registration and Guest Policy: Registration is required for members (no charge) and guests (guests are welcome at a cost of € 20 which includes snacks and drinks). Guests are allowed to attend two EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam functions per year. For questions about membership, please contact our VP Membership, Jacinta Noonan at membership@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net.

A lot of women fulfill various roles, also roles that often are seen as male roles. Power and influence are often seen as male characteristics. Each and every working women askes herself at a certain point in her career: is this what I want and how can I influence myself to turn things around in such a way that I am true to myself.

Roy Ramdjanamsingh, founder of Synques International, will take us on a journey on the various elements that impact femine power and how we women are able to use our power to create the best circumstances possible.

By using the Q4 Personal Style Analysis gives you a universal language of behavior and communication.There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the results, no opinion. Q4 Profiles is based on the quality and strength of each individual. This gives a handle to the differences between people better use and understand.

To get a better insight in ourselves and to give Roy’s presentation a solid ground to use in our daily live, members who sign up at
this event will fill in an online questionlist to determine their personality style. The personal Style Report (24 pages full color, bound hardcover) will be presented during the event. It will take ca. 15 minutes to complete the questions.

The online questionlist is available in English (British English, American English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch). All reports will be in English or in Dutch.

To receive a login for the online questionnaire we ask you to send an email to caroline@hoefloo.nl. You are kindly requested to be specific in your email mentioning your name, profession and the language you want to fill in the online questionlist. Login
details will be send to you via email when we receive your email and your payment for this event.

Roy Ramdjanamsingh has a succesfull background in IT, where he went from assembling computers to managing his employees in sales. He was born in Suriname and raised with Indian traditions before his family moved to Holland. This has helped him to blend the Eastern and Western philosophy to improve his understanding of people and applying these concepts and models accross cultural barriers. He is a man with a mission: “creating the balance between people and organizations”. After he
sold his IT company he started his business in behavior sciences and developed a DISC behavior and values model to support and explain the essence and drive of individuals. For more information: www.q4profiles.com

Practical details:

For this event there is a charge of € 25 for members to cover the costs for printing and binding of your report. Details for a full
explanation of your report will be made available at the event.

Participants are welcome to network from 19:00 to 20:00. The program begins at 20:00.

Registration and Guest Policy:

Registration is required for members and guests (€ 45). Attendance fee includes snacks and drinks. Guests are allowed to attend two EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam functions per year. Please contact Jacinta Noonan, our VP Membership at membership@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net.

In order to keep our administrative processes manageable we unfortunately cannot refund your registration fee should you need to cancel your attendance.

Members are kindly asked to deregister in time if you are not able to attend because of ordering catering for the event.

VENUE: new venue – Restaurant GEMBER

DATE: new date – Tuesday 18 October 2011, from 19:00-22:00

We are very excited that the next EPWN/CW Hague Borrel is now confirmed, at the new location of Restaurant Gember, in the Statenkwartier of Den Haag!

Due to the availability of the venue, we had to move our Borrel to the new date of Tuesday 18 October 2011, we hope you’ll be able to come along on that date! The other dates will remain the same: Tuesday 15 November 2011 and Tuesday 13 December 2011, be sure to keep them free in your diary!

For information about restaurant Gember and how to get there, please check out their website:

http://www.restaurantgember.nl/default.asp?pid=61&page=Routebeschrijving.

More information on the next EPWN/CW Hague Borrel on 18 October 2011 will follow soon!

Looking forward to yet another great Borrel night!

Warm regards,

Karin Bosscher & Erika Both

European Professional Women’s Network / Connecting Women

The European Professional Women’s Network is organising the next Amsterdam Borrel at Loods 6, Bagagehal where 4 galleries created an exhibition on one location

The 4 galeries : Maria Chailloux, Roger Katwijk, Nico en Riekje van Breemen, and Oeke Witteveen sponsor our borrel and they organize a – short- guide tour  along the exhibition, http://4galeries.nl

Van 23 september tot en met 2 oktober vindt een omvangrijke expositie plaats in de Bagagehal van Loods 6, die dit jaar voor de vijfde keer door galeriehouders Maria Chailloux, Roger Katwijk, Nico en Riekje van Breemen, en Oeke Witteveen georganiseerd wordt.
Hét moment om nieuw werk van hun kunstenaars en enkele interessante nieuwkomers aan het kunstpubliek te laten zien.
En een belangrijke gebeurtenis voor de stad Amsterdam, want sinds de eerste editie in 2007 is het bezoekersaantal verdubbeld en het aantal lovende publicaties in de media aanmerkelijk toegenomen.

Aan de expositie in Loods 6 nemen dit jaar zo’n 35 kunstenaars deel met heel divers werk. Daaronder bijzondere sculpturen van uiteenlopende materialen, eigentijdse schilderkunst en grafiek. Ook wordt er in Loods 6 ruim aandacht geschonken aan teken- en videokunst, en aan fotografie. Zo is er een eerste selectie van de foto’s te zien die David – een jonge Roemeense zigeuner – maakte onder begeleiding van de kunstenaar Jaap de Ruig in het kader van het project What David sees. En er hangen in de bagagehal enkele monumentale fotowerken van de Duitse fotograaf Georg Kuettinger die indrukwekkende fotografische landschappen maakt uit honderden verschillende opnames. Van de kunstenaar Marcel Reijerman zijn er werken op papier te zien, die bijzonder rijk aan beeld zijn en getekend met een aanstekelijke plezier in de vele picturale mogelijkheden die houtskool en conté bieden. Tussen de tekeningen valt vooral het werk van de tekenaar Paul van Dongen op. Tijdens de expositie in Loods 6 brengt hij een aantal etsen die een religieus-symbolische inslag hebben. Ook zijn er van hem een paar bijzonder fraaie aquarellen en kleuretsen te zien. Verfijnd werk dat getuigt van een groot vakmanschap en een bijzonder oog voor detail.

We look forward to meeting you!

The Albert Heijn Parking is recommended in case you will be travelling by car.

Marianne Eisma