Michèle Kelder (NL)

Michèle Kelder has lived more than one professional life, and more than one personal one too.

Her path has taken her from the corporate IT world to nightlife and photography, through addiction and recovery, and from working in addiction care to speaking and creating events of her own. Rather than separating those chapters, she has turned them into the foundation of what she does today.

Michèle is direct, curious, compassionate and non-judgemental, and interested in what happens when people stop giving the expected answer and start talking about what is actually going on.

In 2022, For Love and Health of House started to take shape with a two-hour ADE pilot in a church hall. Since then, she has built it into an annual programme bringing artists, music industry professionals and wellbeing professionals together for honest conversations and shared experiences around mental health, alcohol and drug use, addiction, recovery and life in electronic music. Along the way, it has been supported by the people in her life and many people from within the industry.

Through Connect2Progress, Michèle also speaks, creates alcohol- and drug-free events and offers individual Deep Dive Sessions.

At the heart of her work is a simple idea: you can love a scene and still question parts of it.

Difficult conversations do not take away from the joy. They can deepen the connection and sense of belonging that music creates, and help protect what makes it worth loving.

Michèle wants to bring more people into that conversation. To connect, share what they know, look out for each other and help shape a music culture in which people can thrive alongside the music they love.

You are wholeheartedly invited to be part of it.

Connect2Progress
For Love and Health of House