2026 Personal Leadership weekend

This weekend is primarily organised for women; men are welcome to join the Crash Course in Leadership symposium on Saturday during the day.

Friday 23 January

20.00 Welcome, introduction and intention setting

21.00 Borrel & Games

Saturday 24 January

9.15 breakfast

We will follow the programme:
Crash Course in Leadership: BEGIN WITH WHO, Principles of holistic leadership

GROTIUS is famous for helping young professionals and students achieve results that bring about lasting positive changes in human attitude and behaviour together with personal flourishing within the organizations and at educational institutes. Their crash course is one of the main means to achieve these results.  Grotius will give a practical workshop that fits the principles of effectiveness to your situation in study, work and private life and (inter)national surroundings!

Moderator(s)
Oliver M. Tuazon, M.S., LL.M., Chairman Stichting Grotius & Margriet Krijtenburg, senior lecturer in Spanish & Personal Leadership & Core Principles EU  at European Studies Programme, The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

10.30 : Registration & coffee
11.00 : Intro
11.05 : Crash Course in Leadership (Part 1)
12.30 : Q & A
13.00 : Lunch
14.00 : Crash Course in Leadership (Part 2)
15:30:  Q&A
16.00 : Tea
16.30 : End and participants of the symposium will leave
17.00 – 18.30: Nature walk/reflection time
18.30 – 19.15:  Dinner
20.30: Movie

Sunday programme 25 January

10.30 : coffee & tea
11.00-12.00 :

Make your dream come true! You choose, be brave and brighten up your and other people’s days! But, why and how? (presentation & interaction)

Margriet Krijtenburg (PhD), university lecturer in Personal Leadership at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, will take you through maxims of leadership. This will make you feel appreciated and encouraged to become the person you are meant to be and thus happy and to share this with others. Personal flourishing at home, in institutions and organizations and its contagious and positive effects on these same environments and more, is one of the outcomes.

12.00-13.00: workshop
13.30 – 14.15: lunch
14.15 – 15.10: workshop on The importance of emotions

Mónica García-Salmones Rovira, Assistant Professor, Grondslagen en methoden van het recht, Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid, Maastricht University

15.15: presentation on: The power of kindness as expressed by Jacinda Ardern, former prime minister of New Zealand.

Josie Makkink, European Studies graduate, European Affairs intern Regional government Utrecht and public diplomacy intern at The British Embassy.

15.45: Recap and Conclusion of the day
16.00: Tea and say goodbye