We've been
in the room.
Curated Workshops is built by Robert and Margriet — two facilitators who got tired of watching great workshops produce nothing.
Why we built
this.
We founded Orange Minds in 2014 after leaving corporate life — with one conviction: the way most organisations run workshops is broken. Not because people don't care. Because the structure isn't there.
Over the next decade we facilitated more than 200 workshops across Europe and the Middle East — Design Sprints, team offsites, leadership programmes, strategy sessions. We got very good at knowing what works and what quietly kills a room.
Curated Workshops is how we put that knowledge in a box. So a busy team leader — without facilitation training, without a budget for an external facilitator — can run a session that actually produces something.
Robert & Margriet.
Margriet combines warmth with precision. She creates rooms where people feel safe enough to say what they actually think — and structured enough to do something with it. Her background spans Design Thinking, Liberating Structures, and over a decade of corporate and public sector workshops across Europe.
Based in Amsterdam Noord. Reads too much. Travels with purpose.
Robert has a talent for making complex situations legible. He designs workshop arcs that feel inevitable in hindsight — the kind where participants leave wondering why they don't always work this way. He brings the same rigour to the structure of Curated Workshops.
Also based in Amsterdam. Instinct for brevity. Rarely uses two words when one will do.
How we think
about working
together.
The best workshops we've ever facilitated weren't the loosest ones. They were the ones with the clearest structure — because structure is what sets people free to think instead of manage the room.
When a leader facilitates their own team session, the team loses their leader as a participant. The most important voice in the room goes quiet. We design our workshops so the leader can sit in the circle, not stand outside it.
A single great workshop changes something. A rhythm of them changes how the team works. We build our workshops to be run repeatedly — because real culture change comes from consistent practice, not isolated events.
Every Curated Workshop has Robert and Margriet's names on it. We don't publish anything we wouldn't run ourselves. That accountability is the quality signal we think the market is missing.
What goes into
every workshop.
Every workshop is sequenced around how human attention and energy actually work — not how we wish they did. We build in energy shifts, breaks, and closing rituals that are grounded in how the brain processes and retains information.
We draw on Liberating Structures — a set of facilitation methods that replace conventional presentations and discussions with approaches that include and engage everyone. No more HiPPO dynamics. No more silent participants.
Every workshop is designed with the end in mind. What does the team need to leave with? What shift needs to happen? We work backwards from the desired outcome to design the session — the way a product designer works backwards from the user.
The troubleshoot cards in every kit come from real situations. Not hypothetical scenarios — actual moments in actual rooms where something went wrong and we had to fix it in real time. That's a different kind of expertise.
Curated Workshops
is one part of what
we do.
Alongside the workshop kits, Orange Minds facilitates Design Sprints, runs leadership programmes, and builds custom workshop trajectories for organisations across Europe and the Middle East. If your team needs something more tailored than a kit, that's what we do through Orange Minds.
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