"When you are truly connected with yourself, you are connected with everything. The rest follows"
- Maria
The idea behind it
Most good ideas and solutions already exist. They're growing, evolving — and waiting to meet each other.
Sync Lab creates the conditions for that: mediating opportunities across sectors of society, through personal contact.
Our focus: Bridging sectors and initiatives that rarely meet. Making space for ourselves and each other as humans. Tending to what often goes unseen. The urgency we feel outside, and what's urgent inside. The gaps between knowing, feeling and doing.
Many of us are driven by something deeper than we realise. Sync Lab is where that's allowed a breath — where who you are and what you do can finally breathe together. What needs tending before you can truly contribute?
How it works
There are labs with open registration — for all kinds of transition workers. And there are 1-day or multi-day labs by theme or invitation, bringing people together around a specific transition topic. Part of the day follows a loose programme, though always as an invitation, never an obligation. The rest unfolds from what's alive in the room.
From Crete to the Netherlands
Between 2022 and 2023, Maria hosted several editions on Crete.
What happened there is hard to capture in a program or text. It was an exploration; each one listening to their own impulses and letting the flow with the group emerge.
"The connections made here - were more profound than with some of the people that I know my whole life" David Schmid - Urban Transition Designer
She's bringing this to the Netherlands now.
Why the Netherlands?
The Netherlands is buzzing with initiative. The energy is here, the awareness, the will to act — and the wealth. Wealth that carries history, and with that, a responsibility to lead and help restore.
Many are working on transition. Sync Lab is one of those places.
Interested?
Are you a transition accelerator, leader, weaver, groundbreaker — or do you simply know you need to be here?