Jonge Harten 2024: Play around!

Jonge Harten 2024 has a playful mindset: ‘play around’. An invitation to blow up existing frameworks, claim your own place, make your own choices and try out new things. In short to play around! Because then you will discover new insights and experiences.

Isn’t play for children?
Do you think play is only for small children? Wrong! Everyone needs to be playful in life. The world often seems to demand of us that we already know everything, have everything in order (school, work, friends, ambitions, dreams, social media) and choose one direction only once. But what if we look at it differently? Instead of just learning the rules, let’s open things up to play and experience things you didn’t expect.

Play can be physical, but also in your imagination. Imagine things that seem crazy or impossible at first glance, and dare to come up with new ideas and solutions. This is how we can positively change and renew the world. By playing with imagination, we explore other realities and dream of what else is possible. And it’s also just more fun, because not everything follows set rules.

What would your world look like if you start playing with your thoughts? What boxes do you break open? What directions would you like to explore? Don’t worry, you don’t have to choose definitive answers. Things are allowed to coexist. All the voices in you are allowed to be there. And if you fall down? Then get up and choose another path. As long as it is your way. Dare to take your place. Dare to think of things you haven’t thought of before. Dare to play!