About me
Welcome to an Anthropo-Gazing way of being-in-the-world.
I am Dirck van Bekkum & Squinted Hawk, part of many and still on my own. For Squinted Hawk watch this: 1987 2015 Squinted Hawk EYE OF HORUS
It is the humble account of my lifelong (1947) quest to stay within my life vision. I walked with her in my early childhood, lost her somewhere in Kindergarten at four and since then quested/longed for her until I was able to walk her for good in my early forties.
This path led me from retracing my mother’s and father’s family heritages to marrying (1969 and 1995) into post-colonial Eurasian migrant families. Professionally it took me from becoming an engineer to finding my dream in enveloping myself into being son / brother / man / father / sportsman / martial-shamanic artist / anthropologist / trickster.
Our Western civilization forces people to live ‘fragmented’ lives while recurrent whole/healing experiences are necessary/possible. For an artistic manifestation of this insight see my soulsearching ‘Squinted Hawk Lost Powers Returning 1996’ to get/stay on track to a holistic life.
In Anthropo-Gazing I bring together the treaures of my life long ‘Great Questing’. I offer what people, plants, trees, birds and fires, waters, winds, skies, stars and the earth blessed me with. After (field)working for three decades in and with mental health services/professionals I am an educator since 2007, as a clinical-systemic anthropologist, in close cooperation with the Collectief Transculturele Therapeuten in Amsterdam; The Netherlands.
At the Marjon Arends Instituut we co-educate, in a one-year course and a two-year course, groups of experienced mental health and youth care professionals to act cultural self-reflective in their clinical practices.
Below some other allies/helpers/relatives in my ongoing quest.