Public Speaking

• 5 Dec 2026Center for Process StudiesGod, or Nature: Spinoza and the Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Metaphysics, paper at the online conference Religion at the Edge: New Questions in the Philosophy of Religion
• 2026Embassy of the Free Mind & Ritman LibraryLucid Dreaming: Exploring the Phenomenology of Inner Space, workshop
• 2025Spirit of Amsterdam FestivalSpinoza, Nature & Metaphysics, lecture-performance in the Uilenburgersjoel (sold out)
• 2025LUCA School of ArtsEntangled Dreaming, a day-long performance and dream-incubation workshop
• 2024Van Gogh MuseumVan Gogh’s Droom, lecture-performance for Vincent op Vrijdag
• 2024OFR Gallery, ParisTarot & the Surreal, spoken-word lecture-performance
• OnlineAdvayaDreams, a six-module course, and the webinar Dream Technology with Saelyx Finna
• 2024International Association for the Study of DreamsWorkshop at the Annual Conference
• 2023University of ExeterLecture at the Exeter Psychedelic Colloquium
• 2022–24Arizona · Hamburg · Berlin · BernConference presentations on the history of lucid dreaming research

• 2026North Sea Jazz FestivalStage presenter
• 2025North Sea Jazz FestivalHost of a panel on spiritual jazz with two Grammy-nominated artists; curator and presenter of the three-day live broadcast on NPO 2 Extra & NPO Start
• 2023–Crossing Border FestivalAnnual host of the Attic stage, introducing writers and musicians and leading conversations on stage
• 2025Lago Lago FestivalMarieke McKenna’s Morning Salute, her own stage, curated, hosted and presented
• 2024Transition Festival, TivoliVredenburgPanel Women in Jazz
• 2023De Groene AmsterdammerCo-curator and producer of the 145th anniversary evening with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, ITA
• 2024–26NPO Soul & JazzHost of the weekly national radio show Round Midnight
• 2021Super Sonic Jazz, ParadisoFestival presenter

More than two hundred interviews with artists, scientists, philosophers, psychologists and musicians, on national radio, on festival stages and for research.

• 2026Dreams, Consciousness and the Uncharted Inner SpaceMangu.TV Podcast · listen →
• 2025The Messages in Our DreamsThe World Needs Creatives, with Rachael Sardelich · listen →
• 2025Dream Philosopher & Historian, Renaissance WomanInitiations, with Jules Ferrari · listen →
• 2025In conversation with SiemOperator Radio · listen →
• 2025The MusesPodcast with Amanda Noordgaard
• 2024Altered States of Consciousness on the Border between Science & ArtFollow the Mushroom · listen →
• 2022InnerScapes #14: Dromen (Dreams)Echo Box Radio, with Sophia Batovrina · listen →

Prinses Christina Concours Jazz; 3VOOR12 Album of the Year; annual selection committee of Popronde; panels for GRAP, VNPF, De Coöperatie, Popunie and Popradar at TivoliVredenburg, Eurosonic Noorderslag and Melkweg.