“At one point I felt like I was just peeling onions in the kitchen while everybody else was doing social change. But then my team members reminded me of the impact our food had on the participants’ reflections about their eating habits, I realized that actually peeling onions can make this world a tiny bit better.”

Johanna about her experience as head of the kitchen at the NOW Encounter

“I am a Woman, I am an African, I am Arab and I am Muslim. For some people, those are the worst characteristics a human being could have. But what do they actually know about any of these things?”

From Ghizlane’s Learning Diary

“People learn in different ways, at different paces, and have different needs in their learning processes. There is no ‘one size fits all’ in education.”

Elis on the NOW educational approach

“We cannot be active in all spheres and areas where social change is needed, but we can become allies”

Rahel about ally-ism and living our values

“We cared for each other’s learning and engaged in honest and powerful feedback sessions.”

Jana about the first Facilitathon

“On the 6^th day of the NOW Encounter, we discovered our privileges. … Reality hit me.”

Gerttu about the NOW Encounter

“Being authentic in this world, where we have learned to be strong and project ourselves is really not an easy task. But once you have experienced the strength that comes with it, there is something awakening inside of you.”

Wouter about the use of coaching within NOW

“I put more work into NOW than I actually had time and energy for, just because I was so passionate about the project and I felt the work was important and needed to be done.”

Annina talking to Ömer about work-life balance

“Toggl is part of our wellbeing policy in which each team member pledges time to the organization and we use Toggl to track how much that person actually worked.”

Rahel about the tools that NOW uses for collaboration