Hello world. Today I will share my vision on relational cultures and their relationship with, what I call, 'soft' anarchy. The concept, or lived reality, of relational cultures is one of the pillars of my book on communities, but can be applied in a much larger (or smaller) scope than just communities. For me, relational cultures are explained by two pillars that seem to contradict each other, but are actually mutual reinforcing each other. These two are: autonomy and relatio

Communities have always been significant to me throughout my life. I enjoy sharing life with groups, such as my class during my biodynamic agriculture studies, when we spent two days together eating and sleeping at the school, or when my two stepchildren brought all their friends to our place for pancakes. You could call it an extended family. Since 2009, I have either been visiting or living in communities until now. From 2021 to 2025, I visited a variety of communities, eco

Welcome to my renewed website! The last four weeks I have been evaluating the first year of project Beija Flor. What began as 'just' an evaluation, grew into a process of clarification. Clarification of who I am, how I am wired, to clarification why I like to play so many fields: counseling, garden design, workshop facilitation and community work. From clarification of an overall perspective of life, including work, that I have, to the clarification of very concrete new texts