Project Description
The Healing Garden Foundation is the company behind the annual Healing Garden Festival that takes place at the Erkemederstrand in Zeewolde. Under the slogan ‘happy people create a happy world’, visitors to the festival are inspired and challenged to be the best version of themselves. The organisation consists of 10 permanent employees and a group of 50 permanent volunteers for work on site. Make Energy Work has worked closely with the founder of the foundation: Sarah Schröder.
Problem
In the spring of 2020, Nils contacted the Healing Garden Foundation. Despite the fact that ticket sales had been running well for years, the organisation lacked a healthy ‘flow’. A positive mindset would allow the company to generate more cash flow, making it easier to engage volunteers with the festival.
Solution
In consultation with Sarah Schröder, the following objectives were formulated:
- to strive for a successful festival with a vital energy,
- to strive for balance in leadership and more scope for project delegation;
- to strive for more visitors and an increased turnover;
- to strive for a healthy cash flow in order to engage volunteers with the festival more easily;
At the beginning of 2020, Nils started the energetic change process. The results speak for themselves.
Result
Sarah Schröder: ‘I have experienced the collaboration with Nils as very pleasant. Because of the corona crisis, the festival turned out to be very different from the years before, making it difficult to draw a comparison. But the results we’ve achieved are striking. Nils played a major part in this.’
The results at a glance:
- significant improvements were made in the energetic values of the festival site in June 2020, enabling positive developments to take place;
- firstly, in July 2020, the municipality gave the green light to a ‘light version’ of the festival (250 instead of 500 visitors), after it had been blown off in April as a result of the corona crisis (many other festivals were removed from the agenda completely);
- ticket sales were reasonably well despite the fear of the coronavirus: The weekend was sold out and the following days were visited very well;
- the cash flow was sufficient to pay all volunteers;
- the cooperation with the municipality was pleasant and seamless;
- it was easy to recruit sufficient volunteers;
- the volunteers felt relaxed and took their work very seriously;
- the energetic dome (holon) above the festival site, laid out by Nils, was a very pleasant experience; many of the visitors reported that they liked the ‘energy’ at the festival site and could even pinpoint where the ‘protection’ began;
- the lake was free of blue algae this year and the surrounding flora and fauna were better balanced;
- the 2020 edition of the festival went without calamities as opposed to the years before.
