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Transformation starts at the heart: Lived Experience by Design. Kick-off of the Orange Thread Dutch Taskforce at MIND, an independent organisation advocating for a mentally healthier Netherlands and amplifying the voices of people with lived experience and their families. Pictured left to right: Anil Thapliyal, Fennie Wiepkema, Mathijs van Meerkerk, Ross O’Brien, Tie Tjee, Annemiek van Rheenen, Erik Bosgoed, Maurine Alma, and Juliet Holtslag.
The Orange Thread Running alongside this global exchange is the Oranje Draad Taskforce — an independent Dutch network spanning five themes: Digital Access & Front Door, AI & Ethics, National Data Infrastructure, Innovative Care Models, and Lived Experience by Design. At its kickoff in Amersfoort, Anil Thapliyal’s presence symbolized a bridge between global insight and national transformation. The assignments are practical: collect best practices, test ideas, and bring them home. “It doesn’t stop at sharing,” Wiepkema says. “It creates a ripple effect — real movement and real change on Dutch soil.” Van Rheenen smiles. “And that’s when the system begins to roar.”
driven system. It’s what the rest of the world is trying to do.” For O’Brien, the Dutch blueprint is a rare convergence: stratified logic from IAPT, value-driven data standards, ethical AI, and lived experience — aligned to equity. “If we succeed,” he adds, “we’ll move from data collection to data intelligence — from treatment to transformation.” The global mirror Since its earliest days, eMHIC has been a backbone and a mirror. “eMHIC taught us you don’t have to choose between ethics and innovation,” says Wiepkema. “You design systems where both coexist. It showed us equity can be engineered.”
“We don’t need to win the race,” Wiepkema says. “We need to change how the race is run — so everyone has a fair start and a shared finish line.” Rather than building everything themselves, the team focuses on the Framework of Impact to identify, connect and scale what already works. “We don’t need to reinvent every tool,” Bosgoed adds. “We need to design the rails — the infrastructure that lets the best technologies, therapies, and ideas travel faster together.” Perhaps that is the quiet Dutch contribution to global equity: not innovation as spectacle, but transformation as coherence — an alchemy not of elements, but of people, trust, and design.
As eMHIC marks its tenth anniversary in Toronto, the
Setting everyone up for success
Netherlands travels not as an observer but as a contributor — a cross-section of health leaders, lived-experience experts, innovators, and policymakers trading lessons between local practice and global frameworks.
In the end, MindPowrr isn’t about winning. It’s about setting everyone up for success. Real transformation happens when the best minds work in coherence, not competition.
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