| Your Name | Bas van den Berg |
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| Cohort Assignment | Hybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in Lisbon, Fall-Winter 2024 |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Guiding and breathing life into the school for regenerative educators and my team at the leadership and learning for regeneration research group. I also have a very strong pull right now towards writing my novels which has been a relatively new development. |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | Guide, educator, novellist, partner. |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | I want to be able to show up in ways for those around me that is healing and energizing. I want to be the type of 'leader' that truly empowers those around him. And I really enjoy right now the use of fiction as part of that. |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | To become more comfortable with risk again. Ever since getting ankylosing spondylitis I have held on to security at the expense of possibility or even what I feel called to do sometimes. I want to work on that. |
| 5. And for professional growth? | I need to become more sensitive to what is going on around me at the strategic level. In my role as professor I encounter that 'level' often and also often struggle with not trying to bulldoze my own perspectives and ideas through. That is now hampering me in ways of actually contributing to further evolution of the broader system I am embedded in. |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | The last 8 years I have been working on regenerative education in a variety of roles. Including a PhD and everything that comes with it. I invest every day in the form of the amount of pain my body carries from arthritis and not giving up but channeling it into something healing hopefully. |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | So many! The main I draw from are the regenerative design field (e.g. Lyle and Wahl), to a lesser extend the business field like Sanford, and Hutchins. Educationally I am also drawn to John Dewey and Gert Biesta's work and anthropological Anna Tsing and Braiding Sweetgrass have left a lasting impact. I draw heavily from humanities and social sciences. In my novelist work I draw heavily on history and mythology. Particularly Celtic and Norse mythos. |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | I love this question. I see our role primarily as observers and temporary expressions of the great evolutionary journey. So I would hopefully see us living into the potential of helping evolution along its long (billions of years) path. To experience the privilege of being alive for a brief moment in the universe. I hope to instill that love for life in my students and staff. |
| Date Created | August 21, 2024 |