• Fire, Water

• Kali

• Contemplative practices (meditation, including rituals)
• Futuring
• Pantheistic, non-anthropocentric processes
• Total experiences

• Design
• Research
• Framing
• Keeping overview (big picture)
• Summarizing
• Harvesting
• Multilingual hosting (4/5 languages)
• Public speaking
• Mentoring
• Writing
• Hands on: working with food and audiovisual media

• Concept and programme development
• Short & long processes (all aspects, different group sizes, hands-on and discussions, co-creation…)
• Transdisciplinary, transsectorial and intercultural design
• Experience and transmedia design
• Meditation
• Sectors: arts, science, engineering, policy, business, environment, medical, communities

• Cross-sectorial
• Cross-generational
• Cross-cultural

• Homogeneous unmotivated groups who take much for granted and give nothing (vampires)

• Transformational, long-term relationships and life-changing experiences (from one person to the whole world)

• Sound

• Commercial sector
• Patronage

• ‘Composing’
• Improvisation
• Tuning in and making the best of people
• Teaching

• Cross-sector bridging
• Broadcasting
• Presentation/performance
• Teaching/mentoring

Noise pollution

Make music matter

• Personal growth
• Healing
• Walking/nature
• Meditation
• Rituals
• Ecology
• New systems
• Holistic approaches
• Serendipity

• Facilitation/ hosting
• Coaching
• Project management
• Communication
• Social design
• Writing
• Humor

• Creative writing
• Hosting
• Curating
• P2P

• Arts
• Maker culture
• Transition
• Cross-sectoral = interesting

Water

Cerridwen

• Sustainability & transition/change
• Crafts & self-sufficiency
• Nature-based spirituality (animism)
• Things esoteric (sacred geometry, tarot, dreams, healing, …)
• Structuring knowledge
• Plants & trees, wild foraging
• Plant lore & symbolism, mythology
• Ancestorial history of Western Europe (Celts, Germanic culture) and ancient history in general
• Music
• Intuition & instinct
• Helping people to reconnect to the power/strength within
• Coaching

• Language & communication (finding words; translating complex matter into comprehensive words)
• Symbolical interpretation (the story behind people’s lives and experiences) & reading nature
• Helicopter view
• Connecting, inspiring & reassuring people
• Creative thinking
• The ability to put things into perspective and to make fun of yourself (zelfrelativering)
• Vulnerability (in one-to-one conversations)
• Making sustainable choices & looking for sustainable options

• Communication: writing short/to-the-point texts, blogging, facebook
• Druid rituals
• Writing/making a book, a calendar/holiday booklet (Nieuwsblad)
• Structuring information (artist database BAM/Kunstenpunt)
• Editing (correcting)

• Profit
• Pioneering groups
• Open-hearted, sensitive people who see the magic in small things

• Facilitating loud, over-critical people who cannot hear the heart speaking
• Unrealistic expectations and a heavy responsibility on my shoulders
• Cynical, destructive companies/people
• Disconnection and a feeling of abandonedness

• Working towards a society/community where everyone remembers their ‘connection’ (to nature, to the cosmos/the spirit, …) and we act from that connection
• Sharing and offering ideas and watch or help them grow
• A healed earth

• Interested in everything that grows (bacteria, kids, trees, …)
• Time-related thins
• Alternative methods

• Generating energy
• Cooking
• Surprise elements
• Opening people up
• Hands-on, bodily kind of things
• Assisting
• Supporting
• Hosting
• Photographical documentation
• Mentoring

• Dance
• Choreography
• Guiding and designing workshops
• Teaching
• Cooking
• Gardening
• Mentoring
• Hunting for loose ends

• Small steps with small groups
• Long-term relationships
• Activities that matter

Earth/fire

• Transition (processes) > micro>macro
• Bodywork/healing
• Spirituality
• Social entrepreneurship
• Peer learning
• Systemic (change

• Facilitating
• Empowering
• Listening > summarizing
• Connecting
• Cooking
• Humor

• Levuur/art of hosting: participatory processes
• Sociale innavtiefabriek: coaching entrepreneurs, designing workshops, facilitating peer learning
• Vooruit: ‘team’work, initiating chang process
• Personal growth: burn out, resigning
• Life changing courses: matrix, Joanna Macy, Theory U, bodywork

Superficially going through the motion

Deep impact

Air/Fire

Snake (metamorphosis, transformation, healing of others)

• (social) rituals
• Non-acknowledged loss
• Healing
• Funerals & Artistic practice
• Soul midwifery
• Transition & Sustainable practices
• Storytelling
• Spirituality
• Constellations
• Personal Growth

• Imagination
• Design
• Research
• Holding the space
• Writing
• Listening
• Hosting & Connecting people

• Curating/making programs
• Moderating
• Creating new rituals
• Teaching
• Workshops for kids

• Everywhere progressive people with green mind & heart are looking for alternatives
• Education/arts
• Hospitals ⇒ social sector & caretakers

Burn-out

Small drops changing the form of the rock

People . Design . Innovation

• Inspire people to Think differently
• Ignite action in teams to Work together to
• Create positive Impact and growth

• Cross-sector, Cross-country, cross-professional and generational cultures
• Working in Europe, USA, Africa and Asia
• Programme Design and Coaching
• Executive and Team Coaching
• Certified Geek, including PhD, patents and innovations
• Versed in business language, including MBA
• Teaching Computer Science, in Africa and Europe
• Teaching Leadership . Design . Innovation in business schools

• Business, NGO and Cultural sectors
• Engineering, Science, Pharmaceutical, Art, Media

• Make Ideas Happen
• The Innovation Consultancy

• Earth, fire

• Mountain bear

• Breathtaking landscapes
• Inspiring stories
• Alternating enthusiasm-driven frenzy and slow quietness
• Simple mind-shifting concepts and theories
• Fireside chats about life and related topics
• Making my heart beat through hiking or biking
• Organizations emancipating their members
• Challenging my mental models
• Growing and/or making stuff
• (Herbal) tea
• Saucisson & cheese

• Performing scientific experiments
• Reading scientific literature
• Getting inspired by nature, and helping other people do so
• Building up simple prototypes
• Fitting in many different contexts
• Bringing exo-insights to given contexts
• Working as a scientist with designers and artists

• (Action) Research
• Cross-discipline co-creation
• Boring Microsoft-Office-based tasks
• Facilitation
  • Designers-scientists collaboration
  • Science for artists
  • A little bit of futurology (GBN/2×2)
• All of the above

• Biology
• Biotechnology
• Bioengineering
• Citizen science & technology
• (Bio-)design
• (Bio-)art

• Violence bursts rooting in misunderstanding, mean stupidity and absence of curiosity
• Banality of evil
• Collapse
• War

• Thriving abundance and diversity
• Dynamic equilibrium
• Perfect matches
• Unexpected happy-ending non-linearities
• (More facilitation)

earth

turtle (slow but steady, seemingly from another era observing the world)