EVENTS
Our PeriMind Cafe
Our PeriMind Café is a monthly community event in The Hague, held during the first week.
Each gathering offers a welcoming space for women to connect, learn, and have honest conversations about perimenopause and midlife in a supportive, judgment-free environment.
Every month we explore a different theme with the guidance of our guest speaker Bridget Kelleher a menopause specialist.
Whether you’re just beginning to notice changes or have been navigating this journey for a while, you’re warmly welcome to join us. Explore the themes for the next six months and we look forward to welcoming you.
Let’s navigate perimenopause together! 💜
Book Club: "Theo of Golden" by Allen Levi
Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their “rightful owners.” With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered.
A story of 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 and 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠, of 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 and 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧, “Theo of Golden” is a beautifully crafted novel about the 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 of creative 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 that bind us to one another.
🎟️ Registration via the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/neo-mind-book-club-september-theo-of-golden-by-allen-levi-tickets-1998956507725
Our Burnout Voices
We are launching 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀💜
This is a new online community series taking place every other week, created to help better understanding burnout and connect with peers.
Whether you are currently experiencing burnout and looking for support, or simply wondering if what you are going through might be burnout, this space is for you.
For our first edition, together with Jessica Hsia, Burnout Initiative Coordinator, we are honoured and deeply grateful to welcome Corina Chirileasa, 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁, who will share their knowledge, experience, and professional perspective on understanding burnout.
As a psychotherapist and burnout specialist, Corina brings deep professional expertise, enriched by her own lived experience of burnout and recovery. She will help us explore the realities of burnout, recognise what we may be experiencing, and better understand what recovery can look like.
We invite you to come with your questions, share your experiences, or simply join us with curiosity.
🎟️ Registration via the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/our-burnout-voices-tickets-1997555194359
Our PeriMind Café
September Edition: Nutrition & Metabolism
You’re invited to Our PeriMind Café, a warm and supportive space where you’ll have the opportunity to connect with others, share experiences, learn, and become part of a growing community that reminds you that you don’t have to navigate perimenopause alone.
This September, we explore Nutrition & Metabolism, discovering how perimenopause can affect metabolism and exploring nutrition strategies to support your body through this transition.
We are honoured to welcome our guest speaker, Bridget Kelleher, an Irish Registered Nurse, menopause care specialist, and internationally experienced healthcare professional.
Let’s navigate perimenopause together. 💜
🎟️ Please register via link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-perimind-cafe-tickets-1996449503207
Book Club: “Anything Is Possible” by Elizabeth Strout
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout is a collection of connected stories about people from a small town in Illinois. The characters are linked by family, friendship, and their shared hometown. Each story shows both happy and difficult moments in their lives.
Many of the characters struggle with poverty, loneliness, and painful memories. They try to understand themselves, improve their relationships, and find peace. The book shows that everyone faces challenges, even if they seem successful.
Even after difficult experiences, change is possible, people can grow, forgive, and find hope.
Elizabeth Strout reminds readers that kindness, love, and understanding can help people heal and move forward.
Book Club: “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
“Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is a heartwarming novel set about a small café in Tokyo where people can travel through time for a short while: until their coffee gets cold.
In four heartfelt stories, the book explores love, family, regret and the conversations we wish we could have had.
It’s a gentle reminder that even if we can’t change the past, we can find peace and move forward with a lighter heart.
Our PeriMind Café
💜 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿!
☕ Join us for the first edition of 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗳é, a warm and supportive event created for women navigating perimenopause.
📣 We are honoured and grateful to welcome 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗿 as our guest speaker.
👩⚕️ Bridget is an Irish Registered Nurse with a specialist background in Intensive Care and has lived and worked internationally for over 13 years, now is 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 and passionate about empowering women through every stage of their menopause journey.
🤝 Come connect with others, share experiences, learn from one another, and be part of our growing community.
Please note: registration is required for all attendees: https://forms.gle/yQHXYPRsCguE5Rjw5
Book Club: “I Am, I Am, I Am” by Maggie O’Farrell
“I Am, I Am, I Am” by Maggie O’Farrell is a memoir of seventeen stories about times when the author nearly died. Instead of telling her life story in order, the book jumps between different moments from childhood to adulthood. Through these experiences, O’Farrell reflects on how fragile life can be and how close people can come to death.
Rather than focusing on death itself, it highlights survival and encourages appreciation for being alive.
Burnout Summit 2026
A two-day online event, on 19–20 May, hosted by Vassia Sarantopoulou ( Psychologist, Therapist and Founder of Ethical Therapy Ecosystems: AntiLoneliness, The Therapy Business Circle, VassiaSar), based in the Netherlands.
Register here:
https://vassiasar.thrivecart.com/free-pass/
Attend event and engage in conversations to:
✔ Understand your burnout patterns more clearly
✔ Recognise what your body and mind actually need
✔ Feel less alone in your experience
✔ Learn how to respond to yourself with compassion instead of pressure
✔ Gain tools you can apply in your personal life or professional role
Get the full agenda and event details here: burnoutsummit2026.com/agenda
Book club: We Did Ok, Kid by Anthony Hopkins
We Did OK, Kid feels like sitting down with Anthony Hopkins while he quietly tells you his life story.
He shares where he came from, the struggles he faced growing up and how he found his way through doubt, loneliness, and addiction. It’s honest, sometimes a bit raw, but also warm and reflective.
More than a story about fame, it’s about figuring yourself out and learning to be at peace with who you are.
Book club: Hold on to your kids by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté
In Hold on to Your Kids, acclaimed physician and bestselling author Gabor Maté joins forces with Gordon Neufeld, a psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting. Together they pinpoint the causes of this breakdown and offer practical advice on how to 'reattach' to sons and daughters, establish the hierarchy at home, make children feel safe and understood, and earn back your children's loyalty and love. This updated edition also addresses the unprecedented parenting challenges posed by the rise of digital devices and social media.
Book club: Ten Women by Marcela Serrano
Marcela Serrano'sTen Women is a powerful, kaleidoscopic novel about nine diverse Chilean women from different social, cultural, and age groups—ranging from a teenager to a 75-year-old—who meet for therapy with a woman named Natasha. The book highlights their shared, yet deeply personal, experiences of trauma, love, and loneliness.
Book club: Together by Vivek H. Murthy
The first book chosen for Our Mind Book Club is Vivek H. Murthy's book Together that explores the loneliness epidemic, arguing that human connection is essential for health, much like food and water, and that we're wired for community, yet modern life fosters isolation, making addressing loneliness a critical challenge for our generation.