De Veranderschool

About De Veranderschool

De Veranderschool is an experimental learning and programming platform focused on social and ecological transformation. It presents itself as a place where “the change is lived,” offering courses, evening sessions, multi-day programs, and tailored change trajectories for individuals, teams, and organizations. (deveranderschool.nl)

The school is positioned around the transition to a new economy and says it helps participants develop the insight, language, and practical capacity to contribute to that transition. Its approach is explicitly relational and experiential: it emphasizes learning with head, heart, and hands, and it frames participants not just as attendees but as co-creators in the learning process. (deveranderschool.nl)

De Veranderschool operates at De Groene Afslag in Laren, in the Gooi region, and connects its programming to a broader ecosystem of impact entrepreneurs, nature, circular building, food and drink, art, and a network of collaborators. (deveranderschool.nl)

Core Values

• Transformation: The school is built around enabling deep change, especially the shift from current economic thinking toward a more regenerative and socially just future. (deveranderschool.nl)
• Relational learning: It emphasizes learning as a living process rooted in relationships, context, and mutual development rather than fixed curricula. (deveranderschool.nl)
• Head, heart, and hands: The school repeatedly stresses integrated learning that combines knowledge, reflection, and practical doing. (deveranderschool.nl)
• Inclusion and shared ownership: Participants are treated as “deelgevers” rather than passive attendees, and the school makes room for people who need financial support. (deveranderschool.nl)

Unique Aspects

• Embedded in De Groene Afslag: The school is physically and conceptually tied to De Groene Afslag, an experimental setting that links learning to impact entrepreneurship, nature, circular building, and a wider transition ecosystem. (deveranderschool.nl)
• New-economy framing: Its programming is explicitly organized around alternative economic ideas such as doughnut economics, wellbeing economics, post-growth, and commoning. (deveranderschool.nl)
• Experiential, co-created format: The school says it does not work from standard curricula; instead, it adapts to what emerges in the group and the moment, making the learning process itself part of the transformation. (deveranderschool.nl)
• Accessibility through scholarships: It publicly invites people who cannot afford the courses to apply for scholarship support, which broadens access to its programs. (deveranderschool.nl)