‘Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,’ Simone Weil
Simone (54), an Amsterdammer from the city centre, is rooted in an Amsterdam family line that dates back to Ransdorp (1770). As a Christian entrepreneur, coaching psychologist and philosophical career advisor, she focuses on the “purpose” of human beings, connecting meaning to work, economy and community: inviting people to work from embodied meaning and significance, so that everyone remembers their birthright in love and expresses their calling through work.
‘Those who have a why to live for can endure almost any how,’ Viktor Frankl
In her commitment to inner order and embodied dignity as a public value, she works on living from truth and dignity. So that everyone, individually and collectively, no longer has to survive, but can live to their full potential, in order to work together meaningfully and contribute to the environment.
‘Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God,’ Romans 12:2. By paying attention to human rhythm, meaningful work and existential security, she strengthens people and communities in their resilience, autonomy and mutual connectedness, so that beloved Amsterdam, in essence “freedom borne in responsibility”, does not run on exhaustion, does not drain itself on performance, but remembers what sustains it: that every Amsterdammer may contribute from the memory of why he or she is here.