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Gerard van den Berg is a certified Wilderness Guide (Level III Arctic WGA, Level II Desert, Level II Boreal Forest) and International Mountain leader (UIMLA). Since 2002 he guides, teaches, learns and facilitates worldwide through his own outdoor company and the...

In September 2020 I went on a seven-day wilderness hike in the French Alps. We were nine hikers and Gerard and Peter, the ‘trusted guides’. I remember when I arrived in Val’d Isere after a nine-hour car drive on my own that I was really tired, grumpy and had a...

Richard Barrett is a globally recognized thought leader on Values-Based Leadership, Cultural Transformation, Personal Transformation, and the metrics of personal, cultural, and societal wellbeing. He is the President of the Barrett Academy for the...

It’s my third week back to civilization from a nine-week long time out. Beginning of December, I withdrew completely from the outside world and spent two months pretty much in silence with myself. Well, more or less in silence. I still went out to buy food in the...

Yip (Thy-Diep Ta) is an executive coach and mindfulness trainer, working with corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors to calming their minds and bringing peace into their organizations. She has founded the Mindful Entrepreneurship Conference and...

I have decided to use this December and January differently. Since quite a while I have been feeling this strong desire to pull myself out of all the self-imposed ‘obligations’, having an empty agenda with no appointments, not having a to-do list that tells me who I...

Anna was introduced to me by a friend. One afternoon three years ago she called me and asked if I wanted to come for coffee, a friend was there and she wanted us to meet each other. She thought it was an interesting match (my friend likes to match people).I didn’t...

Robert Stamboliev is an internationally known psychologist, trainer, coach and relationship therapist with over 30 years of leadership in the Voice Dialogue and Psychology of Selves methods. He is inspired to enhance consciousness in individuals and organisations...

Lisa Doig is a pioneer in the field of values and consciousness, creating a leadership and facilitator development program (Facilitating Transformation through Values) based on how our values guide us on our journey from the ego to an integration of the ego with the...

I love the mountains. Last sunday a friend and I went for a hike nearby to where I life in the South of Germany. It was a wonderful and very warm sunny late summer day in the most beautiful colors that nature has to offer. We walked for five minutes and then he had...