Anna-Marie Voorhoeve - The Hague Center for Global Governance
When most people actually live their purpose, it doesn’t mean life gets easy, it means the light gets stronger than the chaos. In this intimate conversation with Anne-Marie Voorhoeve of The Hague Center, we explore what it really takes to midwife a world “that works for all” in practice: through governance, indigenous prophecy work, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and listening to the invisible realms as much as the visible ones.
This episode follows Anne-Marie from a childhood in war-torn Malaysia, where she first sensed that conflict was “one big misunderstanding”, to her current role as a spiritual business strategist, purpose holder, and meshwork weaver for global movements like World Unity Week, Peace Week, and the Holomovement. She shares how a decade-long health challenge became a ruthless teacher of presence, how her body stops her when she’s off-purpose, and why synchronicity and serendipity are some of the most honest feedback systems we have.
If you care about purpose, governance, indigenous wisdom, regeneration, and the art of co-creating with the seen and unseen, this conversation is a compass.
About Anne-Marie Voorhoeve
Anne-Marie is a spiritual business strategist, systems architect, and global catalyst. As co-founder of The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation & Emergence and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders circle, she designs and holds complex multi-stakeholder “meshworks” that bring together movements, organizations, and communities across cultures. Her work is dedicated to helping us shift from fear to love, from fragmentation to coherence, and to grow governance structures that truly serve life.
Timecodes
00:00 – If most people lived their purpose, what would the world look like?
00:10 – Light, shadow, and why living on purpose doesn’t mean life gets “easy”
00:43 – Dr. Opinión introduces Anne-Marie and the journey with young women leaders in Europe
01:16 – Who Anne-Marie is: spiritual business strategist & global systems catalyst
01:35 – Weaving conscious networks: World Unity Week, Peace Week, Holomovement & more
02:33 – Tools for collaboration: systemic constellations, Art of Hosting, Holacracy, meshwork design
03:06 – Being a purpose holder for complex issues no one can solve alone
04:02 – Working with indigenous grandmothers & the prophecy of the Eagle, Condor, Quetzal & Hummingbird
05:32 – Bringing indigenous wisdom into Europe and Western systems
05:57 – Anne-Marie’s purpose: co-creating with all of nature, visible and invisible
07:01 – Childhood in Malaysia: civil war, a missing child, and sensing war as “one big misunderstanding”
08:22 – Moving every 2–3 years & learning to connect through contribution and co-creation
09:41 – From lineage and “boxes” to asking: What makes my heart sing?
11:25 – Letting the body stop you when you’re off track; team culture at The Hague Center
12:32 – Falling ill at 30: 10 years of learning presence, acceptance, and energy as feedback
14:19 – Practicing “not knowing” and trusting that the next step will reveal itself
16:17 – Hearing your heart in a noisy world; using curiosity, “what if it’s true?” and synchronicity as guides
18:27 – Many projects, one thread: a world with love at the center, where governance serves life
19:57 – Returning to the question: What changes when most people live their purpose?
22:04 – Purpose as inherently regenerative & in service to the web of life
23:24 – Rethinking systems, structures, and governance so they no longer work against life
25:28 – Cities as living systems & everyone’s unique role in a nourishing, co-creative world
Follow Anne-Marie's Work:
https://www.thehaguecenter.org
Learn more about the Holomovement Purpose Lab: https://ourlightnet.org/purposemap
This collaboration is brought to you by stewards of the Holomovement and LightNet. Special thanks to our Broadcast Partners: Humanity’s Team, Unify, Good of the Whole and New Realities.
The Holomovement is a social movement that awakens us to our interconnectedness, igniting a critical mass of collaborative action serving the good of the whole. Learn more at http://www.holomovement.net
http://www.OurLightNet.org is a collective intelligence platform mapping how people do impossible things. We then use the data to make breakthroughs of our own in teams of 8-12 and continue to share the data for those to follow.
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