Rotterdam Change Days 2025

We are excited to announce that the 2025 edition of the Berlin Change Days moves to the Netherlands, for Rotterdam Change Days 2025!

As we continue to navigate rough waters around the globe and the horizon is rapidly getting rather more gloomy than promising, we strongly believe in building communities at every level. Very close to home or at work, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Therefore we are looking forward to reconnecting with our growing community of change makers from around Europe and the world. You are very welcome in Rotterdam! 

For Rotterdam Change Days 2025 we have been inspired by Dougald Hine’s book At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies. The following passage puts into focus the wider-world context for the conversations we seek to incite during the Rotterdam Change Days.

to make sense of what is ending, how we can talk about it and what tasks are worth taking on in whatever time it turns out that we have. Something is coming over the horizon: a humbling from which none of us will be spared, that will not be managed or controlled, but will leave us changed. Dougald Hine

Dougald Hine has confirmed he will join our Rotterdam Change Days, give a key note and take part in the programme. During our programme of course we will also connect with the community of change makers in Rotterdam.

In the spirit of the classic Berlin Change Days format, we invite contributions from change practitioners – long-standing community members and curious new companions alike – who are ready to explore questions of leadership, culture, learning and group dynamics through the logics of the unimaginable.

We seek workshops that stir the soil – experiments, provocations that give shape to new change practices within and beyond the organisational playground. That move us toward what Hine calls building good ruins.