Practical mythology is not studying some exotic event/phenomenon but a rather useful way to re-order your/our daily realities to changed environments. We humans need rituals to transform these realities.
Practioners in systemtheory and system (family) therapy are familiar with thinking in linear and circular (communication) processes. However most of them never learned to make the next step into rhizomic thinking. The conception of rhizomic thinking is coined by Deleuze …
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De Spaanse filosoof George Santayana meende dat ‘wie zijn geschiedenis niet kent is gedoemd ze te herhalen” (1905). Voor een deel is deze stelling een open deur want in de gehele biologische en menselijke geschiedenis herhalen evolutionair succesvolle (adaptieve) patronen …
Onze kleinkinderen met hun Papa en Mama kwamen vandaag appels en peren bij ons plukken. Wij wonen buiten en onze perenboom en twee appelbomen hangen barstensvol prachtig fruit. Afgelopen nacht zijn er door het onweer appels en peren gevallen. De …
My teacher, and mental-spiritual-martial art mentor, dr. Ronald ‘Back Horse’ Chavers taught me, between 1980 and 1990, a lot of stuff. Among the most memorable were: ‘systematically getting lost‘ (in order to discover new things) and ‘systematic improvization’ (all human …
My teacher, and mental-spiritual-martial art mentor, dr. Ronald ‘Back Horse’ Chavers taught me, between 1980 and 1990, a lot of stuff. Among the most memorable were: ‘systematically getting lost’ (in order to discover new things) and ‘systematic improvization’ (all human …
(This is part of the introduction to a collection of articles by Dirck van Bekkum about ‘Young Men as systemic Whistleblowers‘ , in Dutch, which will appear in 2017) Quite a few problems in the Netherlands and abroad, most people …
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