Posts By: Barbara van den Bogaard

Denken als Gaia

Een interview met Tom Mansfield door Barbara van den Bogaard In de maand augustus breng ik mijn vrijdagmiddagen door in een online training genaamd ‘Denken als Gaia (Denken als Moeder Aarde)’. Het doel van de training is om de deelnemers vertrouwd te maken met ‘Living Systems Thinking‘. Tom Mansfield is facilitator van deze training en

Thinking like Gaia

An interview with Tom Mansfield by Barbara van den Bogaard In the month of August I spend my Friday afternoons in an online training called ‘Thinking like Gaia (Mother Earth)’. The training aims at familiarizing participants with ‘Living Systems Thinking’. Tom Mansfield is facilitator of this training and the inventor of a card deck called

Listening to The Child Archetype

It is over 25 years ago that I wrote my thesis. And recently I started to re-read it. And while reading it I feel gratitude to my younger self. I researched four children’s films from four different countries and cultures and looked for the presence of what Carl Gustav Jung has called the archetypes. Jung

Regenerative Storytelling

Stories are regenerative in their essence. They might grow a new beginning, a new ending, a new phrase or chapter. Regenerative stories have a strong core and are malleable in their subtleties. They adapt to shocks and changes if they need to. And as I see it, it is this talent of stories and storytellers

Storytelling in Nature

One day of storytelling and listening in a beautiful place in nature
Facilitated by Barbara van den Bogaard

Her hands

“Have you ever seen hands like those before?” my grandmother said in disgust. Those hands have probably never touched a keyboard. They’ve never been behind the wheel of a car, or held lots of money. But let me tell you what they’ve done. They’ve cooked thousands of tajins, pealed countless figs and baked fresh bread

Interview with Victor Ochen “We Heal People”

I talk to Victor for the first time when I’m walking in the parc in the vicinity of my home. It is a truly surreal experience to listen to his life story and his wisdom while walking around in a life so different from his. My life that never experienced these hardships. I feel so

Interview with Johan de Meyer of Macassar pottery

“If there is no cash flow to pay somebody else to do it, well, then I better learn the skill and deal with it“ Interview by Nawaal Deane Can you tell me more about who you are?  I had a real struggle in my life to figure out what am I really good at? Because

Interview with Malika Ouacha

Interview by Barbara van den Bogaard I connected with Malika through a story that she shared online about the cloak her mother made her before she died. The story touches me because of her mothers’ loving wisdom and the wish of Malika to know more about what she left behind. The story is called “My

My mothers cloak

A few months ago, I discovered; there is a part of my mothers’ legacy I didn’t know existed.I called my sisters and aunts in Morocco and France, and they told me where I had to go to find it. Turns out: it wasn’t in Morocco, where my mother was born, or The Netherlands where she

A space to be human

Two days before the matric farewell ball, I was stabbed in my head. It put me into a coma for 3 days. When I woke up, I did not know my family and I did not recognise anybody besides my one brother. I did not even recognise my friends, I knew nobody. I was so

Kawfee

“You wanna cuppa kawfee kid?” My father asked in his ripped mighty tighty whities. One ball always threatened to fall out of the stretched elastic. He knew I didn’t want his ugly cup of instant, heated in the microwave every Brooklyn morning. Nor did I want the borscht and sour cream he’d offer every night. Nor

Interview with Jonathan Groubert

“My dad sort of retreated from life at an early age. I think he was a disappointed man at a certain point.” Interview by Barbara van den Bogaard Reading your story can you tell me more about your father? My dad sort of retreated from life at an early age. I think he was a