Tijn Tjoelker

@tijntjoelker

Weaving a web of regenerative projects, practices & paradigms 🕸️

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If you ask to be hired

mainly because you need a job

you are just another problem for the boss;

if you can solve many of the problems the

boss has right now

you are hired.

To be hired, think like your boss.
from Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly
Regenerative Career
“Slow down and tune into our seismographs.” The invitation is to practice “sensing to the depths” by finding one’s own inner still point, dropping through the layers of white noise, or using a finely-tuned instrument to hear the subtle signals.

What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities o... See more
from Slow down and tune into our seismographs by Nancy Zamierowski
Metaphors and Deep listening
there is a very ancient reflective tradition on the view from above that is still interesting today. Pierre Hadot studied this ancient tradition and came to the conclusion that the view from above, for ancient philosophers such as Platonists, Epicureans and Stoics, is a kind of practice, of exercise of physics, to the extent that – with the help of... See more
from The view from above
Perspective
This is the kind of abundance we need to meet the climate crisis, to make many, or even most, lives better. It is the opposite of moral injury; it is moral beauty . A thing we needn’t acquire, because we already have it in us.
from Opinion What if Climate Change Meant Not Doom — But Abundance? by Rebecca Solnit
Sufficiency
Gongsheng , as BI China Director Bing Song explains in her summary introduction, derives from the biological concept of symbiosis in which organisms are not singular entities of defined individuality, but can only “live together” in co-dependence, the generative thriving of each conditioned by the other.

Translating this notion into philosophical te... See more
from The Philosophy Of Co-Becoming | NOEMA
Symbiosis and Interbeing
Think about rituals each season to celebrate the arrival of spring or the harvest, think about rituals of gratitude and abundance each day to remember where our food came from or who was involved in cultivating the earth.

Ecological belonging is living in an ongoing interconnected relationship with ourselves, each other and our broader natural world... See more
from Ecological Belonging
Bioregioning 🌍 and
To go ahead with anything, you need a whole body yes.
from Expansive vs. Contracted: How Our Body Makes Decisions by Kinga Lewandowska
Decision-making and Embodiment
Hearth Dinners are one of the several interwoven tracks of the Ecological Belonging initiative. It centers on creating and holding space to engage in conversation on Ecological Belonging. Through dinners and dinner-hosting guides, we help communities question and reflect over this key question of “ How do we live?” while dining together in a way th... See more
from Hearth Dinners — Ecological Belonging
Bioregioning 🌍
Hearth — Heart | Hear | Ear | Earth | Art
Questions, more than answers, are the pathway to collective wisdom.
from Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Wahl
The Power of Questions and Designing Regenerative Cultures

from Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly

from Slow down and tune into our seismographs by Nancy Zamierowski

from The view from above

from Opinion What if Climate Change Meant Not Doom — But Abundance? by Rebecca Solnit

from The Philosophy Of Co-Becoming | NOEMA

from Ecological Belonging

from Expansive vs. Contracted: How Our Body Makes Decisions by Kinga Lewandowska

from Hearth Dinners — Ecological Belonging

from Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Wahl