Two-thirds of the book Communities: Experiments with Social Change have been written, and today, I would like to share more about this upcoming book. The idea to write a book about this topic arose three years ago, when I was living in a community in the Netherlands. Today, the community no longer exists. It began with beautiful intentions and positive energy, but it was difficult to sustain the formulated economic model. Simply put, we ran into financial trouble. As money b

Exploring how relational cultures allow autonomy, community, and ecological belonging to grow together. Essay on how gardening can help in practical ways to solve the world problems (free downloadable on my website) Author & System Thinker Wende is a system thinker, writer, and community practitioner based in Portugal. Her work explores how relational cultures emerge and how autonomy and connection can reinforce each other in human communities. Drawing from lived experience i

Indigenous tribes such as the Yawanawa in Brazil can be described by having a relational culture, autonomy and soft anarchy (based on my research in 2023) Hello, world! Today, I will share my vision of relational cultures and their relationship with what I call "soft" anarchy. Relational cultures are one of the pillars of my book on communities, but the concept can be applied to a much larger—or smaller—scope than just communities. The Role of Autonomy Relational cultures, fo