Wende Brand | Profiel

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Join date: Feb 7, 2024

About

I'm a landscape designer, garden guardian assistance facilitator and workshop teacher and I love to inspire others to create a real garden of Eden. Spider Web

Weaving through existing ecosystems is my strategy to create Gardens of Eden. The spider has the same qualities as the prophet: waiting until the right moment. At the same time, it connects people, places, situations, etcetera. It takes care first of the basics (the web or in my case a carefully chosen plan for Beija Flor) and then comes to action.

Heal the landscape, heal the soul

Yes, I love to assist in the healing process of individuals; this is the biggest joy in my life and can be arranged by creating a garden together.

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00316 18543095

Posts (19)

Mar 12, 2026 ∙ 7 min

Communities — Experiments with Social Change

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 became scarce,...

Mar 11, 2026 ∙ 4 min

Author Portfolio

Exploring how relational cultures allow autonomy, community, and ecological belonging to grow together. My latest book, freshly written, and based on a research within communities between 2023 - 2026 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 in intentional communities,...

Feb 22, 2026 ∙ 6 min

The Relationship Between Relational Cultures and 'Soft' Anarchy

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, for me, are...