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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

The Hero’s | Heroins Journey

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we

Negative Bias

“I think it’s too late to be pessimistic. There’s no way to think optimistically or not – we need actions.” ~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand  When I read this quote by filmmaker, Yann Arthus-Bertrand it struck me as very relevant in our current times. Negative stories will not be our saviors since they make us more passive, more overwhelmed and more anxious. The power of a story is implied