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

The European Professional Women’s Network and Connecting Women

are organising the next:
‘EPWN/CW Hague Borrel’
Tuesday 21 September 2010, 19:00-21:00
back at ‘The Pasta Company’ in The Hague!
After our Summer Break, we are looking forward to meet again in the Scheveningen Harbour for our monthly EPWN/CW Hague Borrels. The next one will take place on Tuesday 21 September 2010 from 19:00-21:00 at The Pasta Company in Scheveningen Harbour, members and guests are welcome!

Cost and registration
The cost of the Borrel is €12,50 per person. This will entitle you to two drinks and tapas. You are asked to pay this upon arrival, for which you will receive a token to redeem your drinks at the bar. Additional drinks are at your own cost.
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-den-haag-september (click “register as” above this post).
Alternatively, you can send an email to Erika at erika@bothassistanceandsupport.nl.

Please don’t forget to de-register if you are not able to make this event! We need to confirm the number of attendees with the restaurant 24 hours in advance.

Directions to the venue
We are returning to the venue where we held the first Hague Borrel this year and by popular demand we went back in March. Hopefully our third time at The Pasta Company will be as successful as the previous visits. Although the address is Dr. Lelykade 24a, it’s best to go to the Schokkerweg and to take the stairs down to the restaurants. The Pasta Company is the last restaurant in the row, next to Lemongrass. For more details about the venue, go to www.pastacompany.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!
Don’t miss out on our next networking evenings; please take note of the following EPWN/CW Hague Borrel dates and be sure to keep them free in your diary:
Tuesday 12 October 19h00-21h00 (earlier than 3rd Tuesday, due to school holidays)
Tuesday 16 November 19h00-21h00
Tuesday 14 December 19h00-21h00 (earlier tham 3rd Tuesday, due to school holidays)
Warm regards,
Anna Farrenkopf, Erika Both & Karin Bosscher
European Professional Women’s Network / Connecting Women

We started off the year with a fresh batch of mentors and mentees.  We had some excellent results.  New jobs have been landed.  Professional development in a present position and in a new business development are well on their way…

We’d like to welcome mentors, mentees and everyone interested in the mentoring process. Edith Punt will provide us with a mentoring model and invite mentors and mentees to discuss their mentoring progression and to provide insight to others considering becoming a mentor.  We will also start collecting mentor/mentee applications over the summer for our second round of matching to begin this fall.

This workshop will be facilitated by EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam member Edith Punt.

In 1985 Edith started her career as a human resources consultant in Bangkok, Thailand. Upon her return to the Netherlands (1995) she initially worked as a trainer/consultant with a focus on appraisal systems (Breda). Later she joined an international headhunter in Amsterdam. In January 1999 she started her own agency in Amsterdam. Her services focus on diversity and crosscultural management. She applies different systems to make individuals aware of their preferred styles of behaviour and patterns in decision making, against the backdrop of organizational goals and team dynamics. Since January 2003 she operates from Zwolle.

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.

Please keep in mind participation in the mentoring program is for MEMBERS ONLY.

The Presidents and leaders of the 17 City European Professional Women’s Network (EuropeanPWN) elected a new Board on Jan 22, 2010. The two day General Meeting was hosted in Barcelona, part of the federation since 2008. In addition to formal elections, the leaders exchanged ideas and insights on EuropeanPWN’s evolving vision, strategy and priorities for 2010 and beyond in response to significant growth in the number of networks, activities and strategic partners across Europe.

The Entrepreneur’s Corner is one of the new and exciting initiatives of the European Professional Women’s Network. Its objective is to ensure that the needs and interests of the entrepreneurs in the network are being met – which is certainly especially important given the current economic climate.

To support this initiative, EPWN invites you to a brainstorming session on 28th of April facilitated by Ursula Brinkmann. The session is intended to gather and collate all ideas, needs, interests, concerns that you as a self-employed EPWN member, as one of our entrepreneurs, have identified, and to communicate the outcome of the session to the EPWN board.

Ursula will guide you through the process of Silent Brainstorming, conducted in groups of about 7 participants. Whatever comes up during the brainstorming session we will then cluster together and prioritize in an engaging, commitment-building process. Ursula has used this approach several times in her own training interventions and just the method alone is worth trying out!

Ursula is co-founder and director of Intercultural Business Improvement Ltd, a consultancy and training firm specialized in intercultural management development.

Ursula has been delivering courses and presentations for a number of public and private organizations. One of her recent assignments consisted of workshops on Managing Dutch-German cultural differences for the integration teams involved in a major cross-border acquisition. In 2007/2008 she was responsible for an integration program for a European corporation; the program combined training, individual assessment, coaching as well as networking events for 180 managers.

Together with Oscar van Weerdenburg, Ursula developed the Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC), a questionnaire assessing four key intercultural competences. The IRC has been widely recognized in the academic and business communities, and its database by now is one of the largest sources of information on intercultural competences world-wide.

Richard Kwakernaak, founder Institute for Communication Psychology and Transformation (ICPT);

Thursday, February 4^th, 2010

Location: Amsterdam Renaissance Hotel

Why is it sometimes a challenge to enjoy working together with others, men in particular, while it seems so easy at many other occasions? What role do emotions play? How do we recognize each other’s and our own emotions? And how do we consciously as well as unconsciously focus our attention, depending on how we feel?

During this interactive event Richard Kwakernaak will guide us to reveal our inner resources to communicate and cooperate as effectively as possible, even under difficult circumstances.

Richard graduated from Naval Academy with a specialization in Human Resources Management and founded the Institute for Communication Psychology and Transformation (ICPT) after fourteen years in active service of the Royal Netherlands Navy. During that time Richard acquired a vast amount of experience of communication in male dominated environments which he now also passes on in his work with various national and international companies and a number of seminars that he teaches for the military, especially at NATO’s Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence.

Discover how to benefit from the latest insights in social neurosciences, practically applied in the fields of Mindfulness, NeuroLeadership and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Learn what all people have in common and yet how different individuals interpret experiences, including specific characteristics of male and female information processing.

Afterwards you will have a thorough understanding why men sometimes act in a neglecting way, how emotions arise and impact your communication. During entertaining exercises you will practice how to maintain focus in order to communicate how and what you want.

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.

An exciting and successful 2009 comes to an end and we want to use the holidays to thank you for your participation, support and dedication for EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam. Only with active members like you, were we able to host 12 main events, 6 workshops and many borrels in Amsterdam & The Hague.

EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam: a Diverse and Industrious Community

Speed Networking with Stephanie Ward

When our organization in Amsterdam was originally founded in 1986 as “the Women’s International Network (W.I.N.)”, there were about two dozen (predominantly English speaking) members.  One third of the participants were “Dutch”, one third Americans and one third “other English Speakers”.  In anticipation of our 25^th anniversary in 2011 it has been interesting to look at the history of the organization locally and to look at membership trends and changes.