Advent - four weeks of the period before Christmas - is a phase that precedes the new beginning. It follows summer, with its powerful, outward energy. In Advent instead it's all about soft candlelight, inviting you to be inside. This fits a natural need to turn inward. The summer belongs to extroversion, introversion to Advent. Often during this turning inwards, people encounter old grief, unresolved issues, old conditioning and they feel depressed. This is normal.

Advent is a period of "purification". It's the season of Mary, which is associated with the darkness of the womb, the uterus. In that darkness the seeds begin to develop. (Symbols are "cave", "tomb" and "womb"). A holding place. Same goes for Hanukkah and Divali btw.

The Chaos Corner has moved to the stage for now.

The computer has taken the place of the Chaos Corner, still works the same. plug in the USB if you want to print.

Do not take anything out of the tiny Greenhouse (also not the lamp)

haha, ok, that last sentence has nothing to do with the Chaos Corner, but Kim just wanted to say: don't take anything out of the Tiny Greenhouse. Like... nothing.

Laura Grool, half Dutch half Danish and super sweet joined the Knowmads team. She'l be mainly focussing on (finally) sorting out our financial administration, and updating our online information Drive files, managing the Erasmus communication, and developing our part time program. We're hoping to see much more of her in future, more and more working with real life people instead of a laptop and papers.

The holidays are coming in December, please do not spend your days alone if you can't travel back to your family and contact your Knowmads friends and tribees and light candles and sing ghastly out of tune carols. Unless you enjoy spending time alone of course! Via Nova might organize a Christmas diner at Knowmads. contact Nienke to kept up to date. nhofsink@vianova-amsterdam.nl

we will start a part-time program from March if we had six people that want to join

http://www.knowmads.nl/knowmadic-tribal-year-part-time/

We have 12 people that paid their Welcome Home Workshop fee, and 9 people that are on the list of most likely to join.

The tuition fee will be raised from 5.500EUR thousand to €6250, but people that will pay 2000EUR before the 10th of Dec. will have a 750EUR discount.

Our lovely, sweet poekie (dressed up like a Sinterklaas present) went to the cat doctor today. She did not look so alive kicking to Marloes lately.

Turns out she has a lot of fleas, a alergic reaction to all their bites, a infection in and around her mouth and needed a worm cure.

Since we all love her very much and want her to be the happy shiney poekie that she can be I hope that we could all share the costs.

In total it was 95,00 € Marloes had to pay. All help is appreciated!

and...

The discussion still goes on, but word has it, Poekie is MALE!

his name is Tomer. she's proud

Paul has joined Make Sense, Titia in the Kitchen and he hosts the Social Entrepreneurship Fridays, every first Friday of the Month.

apart from the Sunday masses they're throwing /having celebrating/ gathering? Via Nova is now also renting an office. Until we've build some offices and moved the kitchen (yes, someday it'll happen!) they'll be using the upstairs loft. They love being in our community and wish you to include and welcome them as much as possible, they're doing the same. So that's nice :)

Great Starters4Communities Party at Knowmads the 19th of december! Last time it was great! Come along!!!

GO WILD GO WEST! FB event

website

It’s happening. Kay and Sebastiaan, have launched their long awaited project and business; Studentank.nl:

"What is lacking most between students and business? Exactly, almost everything. There hardly is a connection. Students are considered ‘unfinished products’ and CEO’s are ‘intimidating powerful people’. Not anymore.
Connecting is what we do. We organize think tanks and inspiration sessions. A creative afternoon where students and organizations get a chance to connect, brainstorm and solve problems together.

We start prototyping in January. Are you an entrepreneur or manager in need of some inspiration from creative students? Do you know anyone who fits this profile? Let us know and perhaps your organization is one of the three who gets a prototype session!"

After months in the basement, with seeing no sun and dealing with team and construction challenges they've managed! Logic Locks is up and running and with success. In November they reached their target; every day they had a group of adventurers in the Knowmads basement.

If you know of any team that need building or friend group that want to do something different send them to this Escape Room.

http://logiclocks.com/

"Thank you! It was a great co-operation and fun to work together with all you Knowmads" says Shambhala Netherlands.

Coming Friday, 12th of December, organized by Rodrigo, Hana and Andre, our Brazilian crew!! https://www.smore.com/qgd85