Frits de Vries

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands Netherlands

Civil power inspirator and initiator

NGO / Public Service

'Inspire globally, act locally' is my personal variation on a familiar slogan 'Think globally, act locally'. Ideologies are passé for me, they divide, simpel ideals may motivate and connect. Inspiration and crowdsourcing are open-ended, positive and motivating. Civil Power is for me the implementation of this simple basis by starting initiatives and looking for common factors. Start in your neighborhood, your area, your city and let it spread. Not top-down but bottom-up, grassroot as basis for a changing society. Governance in an organization is to me not a hierarchical method and old administration, but a search for partners and staff who share the core. Empowerment, own regie, healing...