Stien Michiels and I facilitated a series of workshops for the Brussels office of an international NGO that promotes sustainable development and the protection of the world's resources. At the start of the first workshop, we asked participants to bring…
With my colleague Stien Michiels, we had the privilege of participating to the event organised by Amnesty International Belgium for its directors, staff, members and volunteers. We were asked to observe, to listen and to reflect back through poems in…
The International Body Psychotherapy Journal, published twice a year, is a collaborative publication of two sister body psychotherapy organisations: EABP - European Association for Body Psychotherapy USABP - United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. It is peer reviewed by members…
This poem resonates with many and has been translated in more than 65 languages by people who wanted to express their solidarity and love and who wanted to see the poem reach as many people as possible. Others have provided…
During a workshop, we explored the qualities of the Chinese elements (Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood). I was water and here is the poetic harvest of what I experienced. Reading the poem brings me back to the depth, safety and…
Since many years, I have had the pleasure of teaching speed reading techniques to multicultural groups of professionals. Regularly, my participants are interpreters who must be able to read large amounts of texts in very little time in order to…
During the Art of Hosting workshop that had as guiding question "What if it were up to us to embody a society where everyone and everything can thrive?", the topic of diversity was very much present. We also covered and…
Upon returning from the three-day Art of Hosting Workshop in Geetbets, Belgium, I captured my version of the collective sense-making session at the end of the last day. It is a session where the participants who feel like it, pick up…
The AoH (Art of Hosting) three-day Seminar was also special because it involved two experiments. The hosting team was supported by a cooking team, all volunteers who wanted to contribute to the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter through preparing…
At the Art of Hosting workshop in Geetbets, Belgium, I was asked to provide the poetic harvesting of the very first Check In Round where about 60 people participated. This was my first Check In "coverage" and so I took abundant…