Vision Board Workshop at LaMatu – Chinese New Year's Edition - Amsterdam

✨ ENTERING THE YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE WITH A CLEAR VISION

As we move into the Chinese New Year, this moment offers a valuable opportunity to pause and intentionally reconnect with direction and purpose. Rather than letting this transition pass unnoticed, join a dedicated in-person session at LaMatu to support conscious reflection, intentional alignment, and forward planning. LaMatu is hosting a small gathering to do some year-end closing as well as intention setting rituals. This workshop is designed to help you intentionally close the previous phase and clarify your goals for the coming year.

This workshop, organised by LaMatu in Amsterdam, is designed to help you intentionally close the previous year, and set meaningful goals and intentions for the coming year. The session combines structured reflection with practical exercises, including a year-review, intention setting, guided journaling, small-group dialogue, and visual mapping by means of creating personal visualisation boards.

By the end of the workshop, you will leave with renewed clarity, and your personal vision board to guide their focus throughout the coming year — grounded, intentional, and ready to start the new year with positive momentum.

Overall, 2026 represents a decisive shift from intention to execution. It is a year that invites movement — from ideas to structure, from reflection to action, and from aspiration to manifestation. This transition period calls for conscious attention. After a year of shedding layers it’s time to reemerge with clarity and move towards the next chapter with great momentum.

Preparing for a periods of strong momentum requires discernment. Energy without direction can lead to fragmentation or exhaustion. This makes conscious decisions, inner clarity and alignment essential. Setting clear intentions, choosing focus deliberately will be key to sustaining progress throughout the year.

This workshop was created to support that process: helping participants clarify what kind of life they want to design and create in the coming year, and intentionally plant the seeds of everything that you want to manifest in coming year.

✨ YEAR-END CLOSING

Before looking ahead, you will be invited to consciously and intentionally close the year that is coming to an end. This part of the workshop focuses on a guided year-review through self-journaling exercises designed to help you integrate experiences, acknowledge growth, and gently let go of what no longer serves you.

Through carefully curated reflection prompts, you will review the past year with compassion and perspective — recognising milestones, lessons learned, challenges navigated, and moments of pride. Rather than analysing or judging, this process emphasises appreciation, meaning-making, and inner completion. The exercises are structured yet spacious, allowing you to work at your own pace in silence, supported by a calm and contained environment. This reflective pause helps create emotional and mental closure, so you do not carry unfinished narratives into the new year.

Many participants experience this year-end review as grounding, uplifting, and unexpectedly empowering. By consciously acknowledging what has been, you create space for clarity, gratitude, and renewed energy — laying a strong foundation for intention setting and forward momentum. This reflective closing ritual ensures that the transition into the new year is not rushed, but honoured — allowing you to step forward feeling aligned, and ready for what is next.

✨ INTENTION SETTING RITUAL

You will be guided to define some positive intentions for the year ahead. You will write these intentions on a piece of wax paper, which can be folded and carefully lit like a candle. This beautiful ritual marks the start of a new year, a transition grounded in intentional choice. You will bring positive, clearly articulated intentions into the New Year, before it kicks in with its forward motion.

✨ VISION BOARD CREATION

You will create a physical visualisation board using magazines, images, words, glue, and scissors. This mindful process will help you translate your goals and intentions into visible direction, connecting dreams and ideas in a tangible way. Each participant will create their dream collage landscape. This hands-on, mindfulness activity invites you to reconnect with your creativity, slow down and work with attention and presence, turning the exercise into a form of applied mindfulness.

By selecting images and words intuitively as well as deliberately, you may notice patterns, themes, or desires emerging that reflect what your subconscious is drawn to. Bringing these elements to the surface and creating a vision board allows you to visualise what truly matters to you — often beyond what is easy to articulate in words. The finished moodboard will serve as a visual anchor for the year ahead: a tangible reference that supports focus, clarity, and aligned decision-making long after the workshop has ended. You will leave the workshop with a personal visual reference that supports your intentions for the year ahead.

🕚 TIMING

The event starts at 11:11 with a lunch break and will take up to 7 hours. It is best to set some quiet time for yourself in the evening and not to plan other social engagements in the evening directly after the event. This will allow you the space to fully relax and enjoy the experience.

📍 WORKSHOP VENUE

LaMatu Coaching Practice is located in the VERTICAL building right opposite the NS Station Amsterdam Sloterdijk, West of Westerpark. Being the 10th biggest train station in the Netherlands, Sloterdijk offers excellent public transport connection not only within Amsterdam and Randstad region, but also with the rest of the country. In addition to the trains, you can reach Amsterdam Sloterdijk by:

• 🚊 Tram: 19
• 🚍 Buses: 15, 22, 36, 369
• 🚇 Metro: 50, 51

🇬🇧 LANGUAGE

This workshop will be conducted in English using English materials.

🎟️ THE OFFER OF A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE

Ticket price per person €123 incl. VAT

Excluded from the ticket price:

➖ Lunch at a restaurant next door, for which a group reservation will been made. Each participant pays separately out of their own pocket for their own consumption at the restaurant.

Included in the ticket price:

✅ All materials needed to create your visualisation board

✅ Hand-made wax paper used as an intention candle

✅ A workshop journal for your notes

✅ Hot and cold drinks and snacks at the workshop venue

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Amsterdam Vertical, 298 A Radarweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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