Fontys Helps!

Need to pause for a moment – from deadlines, pressure, or just the noise of everyday life?

Join TINT and Motiv for a special Rest & Reflection Weekend in the calm and green surroundings of Nijmegen. Together with students from Delft and Eindhoven, you’ll have the chance to slow down, connect with others, and reconnect with yourself.

Throughout the weekend, we’ll offer a range of reflective workshops and shared experiences designed to give you space – for rest, creativity, meaning, and simply being. Whether you feel like walking, sharing, creating, or just breathing – this weekend is yours. All activities are optional.

Student symphony orchestra Ensuite and student choir Vokollage perform the Dutch premiere of Dan Forrest's Creation, a grandiose piece celebrating the beauty of life.

• Location | Auditorium TUE Eindhoven

How do you show people who you are? Who are you to your core? How would all of this look on paper? TINT and Glyph’s Abstract Self-Portrait Workshop will help you explore different aspects of who you are and how you express it. Then, you will get time and supplies to put it down on paper. Show us what you’ve got: your energy, your values, your self-expression. Even your insecurities are welcome.No drawing experience needed. It is all about the challenge of looking into yourself and finding a creative way to express it.

Join us to explore who you are and make it into an artwork!

• Location | TUe, Neuron, room TBA

What types of knowledge do we (un)consciously value more than others? How does this shape our work and perspectives? On Thursday 4 December three speakers will challenge conventional views on knowledge and invite you to explore alternative perspectives.

Programme

• 16:00-16:30 | Opening by Kaylee Rosalina. The Colour of Knowledge – About power, identity and truth. Who is allowed to speak as an expert? And which forms of knowledge receive (too) little recognition?
• 16:30-17:15 | Your choice between two breakout sessions.
• Crip Wisdom by Lisa Jansen. How people with disabilities, chronic illness, or mental vulnerability form a unique and valuable source of knowledge.
• Navigating with Other Capital by Giovanni Nobre. He shares the strength of communicaties in so-called ‘disadvantaged’ neighborhoods like Delfshaven.

• 17:15-18:00 | Dialogue session. Dialogue tables and reflection on the day’s outcomes.

This event is open to students and employees and is free of costs. It is hosted in Dutch, but translation service is available upon request. Please indicate in the sign up form if you would like to use this service. The event is hosted by Fontys IDEAS. Do you have any questions? Contact them through inclusie@fontys.nl.

• Location: Inspiration center R3 campus Rachelsmolen, Eindhoven