Mother Earth is my only employer….

So it makes total sense to celebrate Earthday at De Groene Afslag, inspiring as many people as possible to intensify their relationship with this most amazing employer you can think of.

Ubuntu…I am because we are. This is a beautiful day to live that….together.

When systems collapse, what are we left with? Relationships.

Relationships with each other. Relationships with our living planet. And relationships with ourselves — with our (emerging) Selves.

How can we upgrade practices, places, and purpose-embodying actions — for ourselves and for the systems we are part of?

I love Scharmers wisdom about seeds (where the future we want to create is already present now) and soil (the conditions that allow these seeds to take root and grow).

We know that the future is already here — but it first appears in the form of seeds: places of highest potential. Without good soil, however, these seeds cannot develop.

In periods of breakdown and breakthrough — of collapse and regeneration — two core capacities become essential:

- recognizing the seeds of highest future potential, and

- cultivating the social soil — the relational and awareness-based conditions that allow these seeds to grow.

Just as farmers need tools to cultivate the soil of the land, social farmers — all of us — also need tools to cultivate the social soil: the quality of our relationships and the quality of awareness from which we enact our social structures moment to moment (see image below).

Illuminating the blind spot of leadership — the cultivation of social soil — is at the core of the new collective-inner leadership work that the polycrisis facing our planet is calling for — it is the Call of our Time.

How are you — how am I — how are we responding to this call?

For those who feel called to continue this work beyond individual practice:

From March to June 2026, we will offer the Presencing Series 2026, a guided journey that deepens the inner and collective leadership capacities by featuring practical living examples and shared reflection and co-sensing spaces.

Alongside it, the Regenerative Futures Labs will offer a space to bring your concrete initiatives, projects, and questions into a shared field of inquiry and action — turning sensing and presencing into movement and real-world change.