Wondering what that horrible noise is outside your window?

It’s merely the ghost of Peter Stuyvesant,  the last governor of New Amsterdam. He’s not alone. As Halloween approaches, dozens of historic spirits and ghouls will be popping up in the strangest places and Lisa Lipkin wants to tell you all about it.

For over 20 years, Ms. Lipkin worked as a professional storyteller, bringing New York’s rich history to life before starting Story Strategies (Storystrategies.net), a consultancy that helps organizations find and tell their core stories.

One of her favorite shows, Ghosts on the Hudson, explores the historic Dutch ghosts which continue to haunt New York today. Join her as she regales you with some deliciously scary tales. Not for the faint-hearted.

If you have a ghost story to share, bring it along! Participation is welcome.

Venue details to be confirmed – please register with the above link and I’ll send you the latest update when I return from abroad.

(Anna <social@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net>)

September will have been a super busy month for all of us.
Come unwind and catch up on all the latest goings on. Did you catch the exhibit at FOAM? Have you been to the bags and purses collection? Are you glad SAIL is only once every 5 years? What is the latest on the conference circuit? Let us catch up!

We’ll head over to Cafe Molenpad again. Join us.

**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED**

Contact Anna <social@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net> for updates to the calendar

PWN is going to Paris, France

Please note: this Paris Shopping Trip is open to all EPWN members, from Amsterdam and elsewhere.

Across budget ranges, Parisian clothes are of invariable quality, well tailored, highly fashionable and definitely versatile. 

If you want a direct taste from Paris, 31 Million is taking you on a shopping trip to the French capital to show you firsthand what this city has to offer. You will also realize in the process that women in France do not spend more on clothes than their foreign counterparts, but simply have more choice. 



Details: From the well-established shops to the up and coming designers, we will custom-build an unforgettable itinerary for you over the weekend of October 22-24, where you will also benefit from discounts exclusive to our EuropeanPWN participants from major brands. On Saturday, October 23^rd, we will also organize an evening out together for some well-deserved downtime.

Process: After an initial phone contact, we will request you to fill a detailed form designed to better match what you are looking for with our database of shops. We then meet in Paris with all participating EuropeanPWN members. In addition, 31 Million can take care of as little or as much as you need, from your hotel reservation, collective or individual entertainment (restaurant, concert, museum, etc.), as well as transport.

Price: Eur. 300 -500 for the full weekend depending on services offered. (price excluding restaurant, transport and other fares). Contact us at info@31million.net for additional details.

Save the dates: 22, 23, 24 October


This is the second of the mentoring group “zzp & entrepreneurs” workshops facilitated by Eleonore Breukel.

Judith Webber formerly of the zzp-adviescafe will facilitate the second in a series of group discussions.

Monday 4 October we have reserved Carmiggelt‐zaal in the Openbare Biblioteek Amsterdam (Oosterdokskade 143; 1011DL).  The Carmiggelt conference room is located on the 6^th floor of the Library next door to Amstedam Central Station (across from the floating Chinese Restaurant).

Judith Webber

Judith’s core business www.purehuman.nl is to inspire entrepreneurs to show more of themselves to the world: especially the reason why you started your particular business, this says something about you! Customers choose you not only only for what you do; they choose you for who you are, and what you mean to them. “Entrepreneurship is connected to you as a person, it is impossible to separate it”, according to Judith.

In small groups she will inspire and stimulate you to help each other in what you find most difficult in your business. There is always someone there who is totally passionate about that piece.

Everybody leaves the room with new ideas and questions to work out later.

Judith is the author of “Laat jezelf zien” (show yourself) which will come into the market in October 2010.

—-Judiths’ new organization PureHuman www.purehuman.nl started as an idea which was born while talking to ZZP-ers at ZZP-Adviescafe.—-

Members and their guests are absolutely welcome, as Anna is presently headed to the U.S.A. please send your intention to atted to Eleonore Breukel <info@intercultural.nl>

Thank you so much for participating!

Please do contact Anna if you are interested in starting another mentoring initiative or if you are looking to be a mentor <mentoring@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net>

Eleonore Breukel welcomes the zzp’er/entrepreneur mentoring group to their first meeting. This group was formed as a result of a request by attendees to the June mentoring meeting. Membership is closed at this time.

Please contact Eleonore if you would like to stay informed or to participate in a future group mentoring workshop.

ebreukel@intercultural.nl

Please contact Anna if you are interested in starting another mentoring initiative or if you are looking to be a mentor.

mentoring@europeanpwn-amsterdam.nl

Please note this event is “by invitation only”. No registration is possible via the website.

Unleash your heart through art, discover your true self!

-For those who want to incorporate the art process into their daily life-
Join Daniella Rubinovitz, unleash your heart through art specialist and owner of Atelier Werkplaats Molenpad, and discover how to:
• Experience clarity through the process of painting in layers
• Experience creativity through expressive painting
• Experience how art and life are connected
In this action- packed session you’ll learn about the 5 steps to incorporating art in your life:
• Discover energy flow, release tension and grain insights while having fun
• Create contact with art materials and techniques
• Allow your subconscious to visually emerge out of your consciousness
• Enjoy the twinkles In your creation and allow more to occur
• Release fears of transformations and allow for breakthroughs
Because you love fine art creativity, drawing and painting, it’s a disservice for yourself not to use it in your life.
Speaker biography
Known as a “Unleash your heart through art specialist,” Daniella Rubinovitz has a particular vision for meaning behind artwork. Daniella delivers high‐impact, low‐cost, customized insight for turbo‐charging individuals with a creative tool for channeling life clarity. After 10 years of working in the corporate world designing high tech products, she got back in contact with her early passion for fine art. Inspired to deepen her knowledge of the psychological effects of colors, lines and shapes, Daniella obtained her degree as an art therapist. In just 3 short years, Daniella has created a program that allows participants to experience clarity through art. Incorporating fine art, the process of art therapy and the business world has put her skills to the test as an entrepreneur. Specialized in experiencing art as a creative tool for clarity: fun is assured. Daniella runs Atelier Werkplaats Molenpad in Amsterdam. Here participants learn through weekly sessions how to unleash your heart through art, discover your true self.

More info can be found at www.ateliermolenpad.com

Structure during the evening:

18 t/m 20 hours we will meet at Cafe Molenpad
20 t/m 21:30 We will walk over to the Atelier (around the corner) for a tour/talk with Daniella
afterwards you are welcome to return to Cafe Molenpad

Cafe Molenpad is located at
Prinsengracht 653
1016 HV Amsterdam

Routebeschrijving
020 6259680

Then after we will go to the studio (a couple of buildings over)
Molenpad 17d
1016GL Amsterdam.

Contact Anna for details if you are running late: social@europeanpwn-amsterdam.net

It starts with Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Vanessa Paradis, Marion Cotillard, and continues through the countless women you’ve seen in the streets of France.

How do these women master style? How do they combine effortless chic with their high sense of fashion? Trust us, it’s not that difficult. If 31 Million French women do it, so can you. That’s our promise to you.

French style is based on a number of rules and we will teach you everything you need to know about them in this 1h30 workshop. Bring your notebooks if you want, but remember, our lessons are fun!

In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Find your style
- Know the clothes that fit you
- Mix and Match your clothes
- Accessorize
- Learn to watch others
- Shop smart
- Relax with your looks!

31 Million is a personal style consultancy that trains women on the ins and outs of French fashion whilst exposing them to the secrets of French style and nutrition. Our focus is to offer women in their 20’s to 50’s French style and nutrition lessons, organize for personal wardrobe consultations, arrange exclusive and fun Paris shopping trips, as well as provide a rental platform where women can gain access to French-styled clothing and accessories for any occasion.

31 Million started as a fun venture in Amsterdam, where Franco-Iranian Nicky Adle was missing the action of Paris shopping and decided to spread the word that French women don’t have more taste than others but simply dress and eat according to implicit rules that together constitute the French Touch. Raised in Paris, Nicky has been living in and out of France for the past 15 years, has never (ever!) shopped outside her hometown, or given up on her French eating habits. Like most Parisians, she knows the capital’s shops, current styles and future trends.

On weekdays Nicky is an INSEAD MBA graduate and internet entrepreneur, currently launching wondersale.nl, a promotions and discounts webshop that activates on key calendar dates such as Sinterklaas, Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.

Website: www.31million.net
Weblog: http://31million.blogspot.com/
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/31-Million-The-French-Touch/279785544491

Enjoy the class!

**SEATING IS LIMITED**
Be sure to register by clicking the register “as a guest” or “as a member” link above this post.
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 (no charge) and guests (guests are welcome at a cost of 25 Euro which includes snacks and drinks). Guests are allowed to attend two EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam functions per year. Please contact Caroline van Leuven, our VP Membership.

We had a fabulous discussion with our members new and senior at the Library in January. We’d like to broaden the discussion and present some of our new and on going collaborations with our members.

Please join the EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam board at the Renaissance Hotel for discussions about opportunities here and abroad in collaboration with some of our other European Professional Womens Neworks.

Guests are of course always welcome to the borrel, conversation will be tailored to our “club” business. There will be no guest speaker at this event. Rieke Smakman will be facilitating our discussion.

European Professional Womens Network has five main categories of membership: (1) Corporate (2) Members (3) Honorary (4) MBA Students (5) Staff. Each one of these designations is centrally defined at the Federation level for all of the affiliated networks.

Now-a-days membership in an organization is fairly fluid, in that we have a “rolling admissions” process. There is no fixed “apply by” date – so the membership database is constantly being updated. For the purposes of this data analysis – a capture of the membership data was taken in November 2009. Some of the data has previously been described in the December Newsletter article.

Amsterdam’s membership in 2009 totaled approximately 303 members and is distributed amongst the five categories.

We come from 36 different countries (43 if you include our second affiliation – dual citizenships). A representative distribution in percentages of those reporting data is show below. 214 of our 303 members are included in the following diagram:

Slightly more folks report their nationality as compared to their year of birth. Age is under reported in our database, however the distribution of reported ages is as follows:

Twenty-one of our members gathered at the Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam on 27 January 2010 for New Year’s drinks, followed by an Open Board Meeting of the EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam Board.

Anna Farrenkopf opened the meeting and talked about the history of the network since it was incorporated in 1986, how we got involved in the Federation 5 years ago and the accomplishments of our network builders. This set the stage for an invigorating discussion on our City Network’s ambitions for the future, and our desire to continue to play a lead role in the Federation’s future successes.

The Amsterdam Board members shared their stories on what motivates them and their passion for the network. Their enthusiasm triggered interest with the attendees to collaborate and develop leadership skills by getting involved in exciting projects and opportunities that are unfolding within the Amsterdam City Network organization and on cross-network level.