Solari hero of the week
Hero of the Week: January 20, 2025: Elze van Hamelen January 20, 2025 “To make our civilization last for another 100 or even 1000 years,
Democracy depends on citizens being informed
- Howard Zinn
Through knowledge sharing, advisory and coaching I help individuals and organisations in charting a course towards a free and democratic society. I provide support in the following ways:
Research
Workshops & lectures
Consulting & coaching
FOCUS
We are living in turbulent times. The current reality is often descibed as ‘VUCAD’: volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous and disruptive. That creates feelings of uncertainty, fear, doubt and powerlessness. Which sources are reliable and trustworthy? What is my personal contribution to such large processes?
The root cause of uncertainty is partly that the we have a limited map of the realities facing us. To make sound, well-founded decisions, a clear an comprehensive map of reality is needed, that is constructed with diversity of information, sources and viewpoints. Often, through mass-media or even education it is not possible to get the full picture.
For years, I have researched voices of independent journalists, scientists, historians, political philosophers, economists. Taking a systems thinking approach, by observing how a systems’ structure creates behavior, various political, social an economic developments have become apprehensible. I share my insights in articles and through advisory, workshops, lectures and podcasts.
These insights provide calm, oversight and ability to shape your future from a source of personal autonomy and leadership. Taking ownership will shield you against getting lost in the daily madness.
SERVICES
Research
Workshops & lectures
Consulting & coaching
Research
‘Pharma Food. Biotech on Your Plate: The Next Chapter in Big Money’s Battle to End Food Sovereignty’ (2022). Research conducted for the Solari Report of Catherine Austin Fitts.
Dutch Farmers and Fishermen. Local Heroes in the Global War on Our Food and Property Rights, (2023). Research conducted for the Solari Report of Catherine Austin Fitts.
‘The big remodeling of the Netherlands’, (2023). Book in Dutch- this is a collection of articles on the implementation of UN Agenda 21 transitions in the Netherlands. The articles were written for the reader-funded Dutch newspaper de Andere Krant.
The wind on land disaster. Research for Clintel Foundation on impacts of wind on land on health and environment and the feasibility of the energy transition.
Workshops & lectures
Lectures
I give lectures about the topics that I have written about:
- Farmers and fishermen: the history of implementation industrial agriculture and its aftermath.
- Pharma food- a deep dive into the economics, production and ethics of lab-grown meat and other synthetic ‘foods’.
- Behavioral government and cognitive warfare – policies, techniques, implications.
- 5G and EMFs, risks for health.
Consulting & coaching
Consulting
When people want a say in major changes to their local environment, they often run into bureaucratic walls of the municipality and province. Where do you find information? How do you engage in constructive conversation with legislators? What steps can you take? If you want to gain insight and grip on local politics, Elze can support you with advice or in a workshop.
Coaching
Because of all the changes in recent years, many people face their own personal crisis. Do I want to continue with the work I am doing? How can I contribute meaningfully? Through coaching I support clients to get answers to these questions of meaning. I work from a Jungian background.
For more information, please contact info@vanhamelen.eu
BIO
Because of a strong sense of idealism, I started my career in sustainabilty. I was convinced that business has a pivotal role to play in the transition to sustainability. However, in practice, sustainability has matured into a whole business segment, that applies standardized methods and is promoted through slick marketing. No better way to sell ‘feel good’ than by calling something sustainable. Despite all this, real impacts that can be traced through improvements in human rights conditions, or reduction of environmental pollution are limited if not absent.
Often, companies seem to be stuck in the system themselves, which limits the capacity for real breakthrough innovative change. It became increasingly clear to me that sustainabilty is not separate from the global geopolitical context that has arisen after the second world war.
Solutions cannot be found through approaches that are limited to managing environmental and social impacts, or progress in technology. To identify the real solutions we first need to recognize the real history of the previous 75-150 years, and then evalate: what is the basis voor community? Under what conditions does a democracy work? How do you guard the human measure in largers organisational structures? To make our civilization last for another 100, or even 1000 years, a very thorough reevaluation of the systems that currently drive us is pivotal.
My most basic motivation to contribute to a better world through improved relations with each other and nature is still the same. The road to get there has some detours. To achieve the transition to a sustainable society awareness is needed about the (geo)political, social and spiritual realities that are facing us – in tandem with development of personal leadership and real democracy.
That is why I have shifted my attention from a more narrow, technical focus on sustaianbility to supporting the development of awareness that enables sustainability.
references
“Elze is wonderfully brilliant. From brainstorming ideas to tactical execution, she delivers only the highest quality of work. She brings a lot of expertise and dives deeply into new topics and quickly masters them. She’s also a delight to work with. Working with her raised my standards for what is possible for a team to achieve.”– Carrie Staller. Business Development Director, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI)
“Elze is able to dig into opportunity and reshape it in an engaging way for multiple audiences. I supervised her work with a firm to identify a way to start using sustainability as a catalyst for change with employees and customers. She brings a very systemic view to the development of unique strategies.”– Cynthia Scott. Ph.D. Core Faculty, Presidio Graduate School.
blog
Dutch Farmers and Fishermen: A Trial Run to End Property Rights and Food Freedom
Interview Catherine Austin Fitts with Elze van Hamelen about the research report Centralization of food supply and the Dutch Farmers and Fishermen “It cannot be
Pharma Food – for Catherine Austin Fitts’ Solari Report
Deep dive research into lab-grown meat and cellular agriculture for the Solari Report of Catherine Austin Fitts. “Synthetic food will, of course, also be used