Just as noon is the peak of the day, summer is the peak of the year — a time of full visibility, ripening, and fulfillment.

What remained hidden in winter and cautiously emerged in spring now asks to be seen in its fullness. Everything you carry inside is ready to take mature form and step into the light.

Summer is no longer about growing bigger — it’s about becoming fuller. It’s about trusting that the right people, opportunities, and expressions will cross your path. Growth becomes ripening, and ripening becomes strength made visible.

But remember: anything misaligned will also come to light. Challenges, pain, and adjustments are not signs of failure, but invitations to deepen into your True Essence.

Dare to be visible. Dare to ripen. Dare to trust your natural flow.

Do you follow your natural rhythm or your agenda? Can you appreciate the magic of all seasons, of every new day? Do you know what you need to nourish your own roots and blossom fully?

Summer is the growth of the year. Not yet maturation (which is autumn), but blossoming. This is the moment to fully own your greatness!

Ever since I started to live ‘Living and working according to the rhythm of the seasons’ from Jaap Voigt, I feel this is so helpful to align with our natural rhythm.

Shiny Summer helps you to stay aligned and grounded: in every month, in every circumstance, in every now moment. With a turbulent outside world, it is even more important to nourish a healthy inside world. With this monthly inspiration and guided mediation, you will be guided through the natural essence of the month to stay connected to you.

Laying the groundwork for an ecological civilisation…

That was a subtitle that so resonated with me…supporting the shift from ego to eco, is what our work is all about.

I am about halfway in the program and it is truly inspiring and empowering at the same time. Jeremy Lent takes us back to the root causes of our poly crisis, in such a non-judgmental, holistic and humble way. My feeling is it will take a few months to integrate all this.

We all know that our civilisation is careening at an accelerating pace toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality.

And we, especially if you are here on this page, all know that redirecting humanity’s trajectory will require a fundamental transformation of society encompassing virtually every aspect of the human experience: our values, our goals and our collective behaviour.

The depiction of humans as selfish individuals, the view of nature as a resource to be exploited, and the idea that technology alone can fix our biggest problems, are all profound misconceptions that have collectively led our civilisation down a path to disaster. They create ‘Dukkha’, as he explains. Which is at the root of our capitalistic society. More, more, more, in the outside world.

We need to transform our core human identity, our relationships with others, and with the nonhuman world.

Once we shift our worldview, another world becomes possible. Leaving the hedonic treadmill behind and moving towards ‘eudaimonia’, as Aristoteles named it.

The only way we can truly change our trajectory is by approaching society’s problems from the foundation of an alternative worldview ~ one that affirms life, rather than the accumulation of wealth above all else.

This worldview already exists: it is one of deep interconnectedness, which integrates the findings of modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous knowledge.

Ultimately, this worldview could serve as the basis for a fundamentally different type of society: an ecological civilization. Let’s co-create that!

Amid today's uncertainty and disruption, remarkable stories of transformation, regeneration, and renewal are unfolding ~ often unseen and unheard, yet offering genuine hope and practical pathways forward.

Wow, I have attended three of the presencing series now, and that is so true! And it gives so much hope! And I simply LOVE the evolution of Scharmers work and how, finally I would say, the social soil gets the attention and focus it deserves!

In this moment of profound transition, many feel a quiet knowing that they have a role to play in shaping what comes next.

What does it mean to truly listen to the future that wants to emerge through us?

I want to invite all my conscious mates, green pioneers, corporate change makers and other curious souls to join this series, to sense into our future together!

We need spaces where these stories can be shared, where visionaries, innovators, and change-makers can gather to learn from one another and co-create what comes next. This initiative creates such a vibrant field for connection and collaboration at a moment when transformation is not just possible but necessary.

The future is reaching out to us ~ and together, we can respond with wisdom, courage, and collective intelligence.

June 26 will be the last one of this series:

Activating Islands of Coherence.

Friday, June 27, we’ll have a very special edition of the Fridays for Future in Amsterdam, as already some really impactful friends are joining! I am so looking forward to it!

You are very welcome to join if this resonates! We’ll meet in Amsterdam, under the acacia. Starting with lunch at 12.30 or you can join for the session only 14.00-17.00.

Dm me if you want to join!